(n.) A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.
(n.) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
(n.) Any equipment for resistance.
Example Sentences:
(1) No matter the progress made in establishing the International Criminal Court, in prohibiting indiscriminate armaments of certain kinds and in diffusing norms like “R2P” (the responsibility of all governments to protect its civilians).
(2) Other brands in the group include Remington Arms, the country's largest and oldest maker of rifles; Marlin Firearms, a manufacturer of lever-action rifles; and Advanced Armament, a maker of pistol silencers.
(3) On the basis of the patho-morphological reactions a partial armament of the polyethylene surface with metallic structures must be rejected as a general principle.
(4) Sodium nitroprusside has proved a useful completion of anaesthesiologist's armament.
(5) And if armaments appear from those countries on the Ukrainian side, that will strengthen that narrative and might even push the Russians to take a more direct role in the conflict, because it might push Russia to see itself somehow threatened.” Chipman said on Wednesday that while the Europeans seemed focused on a ceasefire, the other parties – the separatists and the governments of Ukraine and Russia – were thinking more strategically and had entirely incompatible aims.
(6) The Author concludes that radio-isotopes must not be considered separately in the therapeutics of tumours, but as main component of the whole anti-tumour armament (surgical, consentional radiological, chemi-therapeutic) in which the immune-therapeutics is proving itself with fascinating possibilities.
(7) Now Saudi Arabia is the mark; one of the most repressive tyrannies on the planet which already has one of the largest stocks of armaments (at $48bn, it was the seventh largest military spender in 2011).
(8) The Süddeutsche Zeitung said: "Some are questioning the sense of a healthy aircraft company, which is overwhelmingly active in the field of civil aviation, merging with a problematic armaments company."
(9) With minimal media interest, the US African Command (Africom) has deployed troops to 35 African countries, establishing a familiar network of authoritarian supplicants eager for bribes and armaments.
(10) A youth-obsessed society that makes a mint from mining the alleged horrors of growing older – all sag and no sagacity – has locked us into a set of taboos that means millions of us are moving from middle age into possibly decades of allegedly unproductive, dependent, parked-up old age without sufficient armament or attitude of mind to challenge prevailing prejudices.
(11) The report based its conclusions on testimony from witnesses and medical staff as well analysis of the armaments used, which HRW said were of a type used only by the Syrian military.
(12) In answer to specific questions, the majority (97%) of children reported being aware of the issues of nuclear armaments and nuclear war.
(13) Coastguard ships are mainly repurposed naval or commercial vessels and are equipped with light armaments such as machine guns and deck cannons, unlike in the past when most of China's patrol craft had no weaponry.
(14) The support of the industrialized countries for armament sales should be monitored, challenged and made politically unpalatable.
(15) The prevalence of resistance factors (R-factors) has become a serious threat to the chemotherapeutic armament of modern medicine.
(16) Moreover, they rightly see the massive and expensive nuclear re-armament programs underway in these states as confirming their bad faith and recklessly endangering our collective security.
(17) This cestode differs from other related species of this genus in the form of rostellar hooks and form and armament of cirrus.
(18) As this is not easy to perform in most veterinary clinical situations, any therapeutic agent, which facilitates control of haemorrhage is a welcome addition to the therapeutic armament.
(19) Some of the Urban Shield participants expressed anxiety about a Ferguson backlash that would force police forces to give up some of their armaments and leave officers exposed.
(20) But each time the oil has been removed more has seeped from the sediment below, which cannot be dug out because the quarry was a German armaments dump when they occupied the island during the second world war.
Carabineer
Definition:
(n.) A carbineer.
Example Sentences:
(1) He trusted me to ensure that the carabiners were clicked in, to secure him as well.
(2) Alison Carabine asked him, would you be prepared to pick fruit?