(n.) Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.
(n.) Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.
(n.) The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.
(n.) The science of artillery or gunnery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(2) Civilian buildings, including a mosque, reportedly came under fire from tanks and artillery in Misrata, the last rebel stronghold in the west of the country.
(3) On top of that, a campaign to retake the north will pit largely Shia soldiers against Sunni fighters and, if air power and artillery are used in civilian areas, will risk further alienating the population.
(4) The night before, my home town of Sarajevo had come under the heaviest artillery fire we had seen in the 52 days since the war began.
(5) We are an independent nation and we have a right to defend our people … Our lack of defensive capability triggers offensive attacks and brings escalation.” He suggested equipment Ukraine needs did not have to be lethal, saying that anti-artillery radar, communications and jamming technology would improve defences.
(6) By nightfall the Ukrainian forces were just 10 miles south of the city, bringing the two sides within artillery range of each other.
(7) Television news reports later said locals armed with clubs had blocked an artillery brigade moving toward Donetsk and forced it to turn around.
(8) Among dozens of other cases on which the military attorney general's office has yet to rule are those that involve the question of whether Israel's heavy use of artillery in an urban area – said to have shocked US officials – was proportionate and justified and over the invoking of the Hannibal Protocol, which saw large-scale destruction around Rafah during an attempt to rescue an Israeli officer who it was feared had been kidnapped.
(9) Qusair had come under heavy bombardment from artillery and shells dropped by the Syrian air force and rebel supply lines had been severed by regime forces to the north and east while Hezbollah had advanced from the south and west.
(10) It covered all conventional arms in the categories of battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large-calibre artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers, and small arms and light weapons.
(11) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
(12) "The artillery department gave the specs for a new weapon.
(13) Imagine the frustration of the likes of the Australian general Sir John Monash , engineer and polymath, who advocated of infantry, artillery, aircraft and tanks and was told he “lacked dash”.
(14) Rockets and artillery are directed at the airport and half a dozen districts, with the Zintanis replying in kind.
(15) Underpinning both will be the force troops, or "theatre troops", which will comprise all the units required to support the frontline – such as the artillery, engineers, signals, intelligence and medical corps.
(16) Zlitan's uprising began on Friday with battles around the town's hospital, but sources in Misrata say the rebels are now pinned into one district under heavy artillery fire.
(17) They have tanks and artillery supplied by the Russians and others against people who demonstrate peacefully.
(18) Government soldiers who were trying to tow a damaged ambulance out of the partly ruined town of Luhanske admitted that anyone who went further down the highway towards Debaltseve would come under heavy fire from rebel small arms and artillery.
(19) Sung-ha Joo, in his 40s, was a reservist artillery officer, in the North Korean military before he left in 2001.
(20) He added: "It may also fail to reduce the violence or shift the momentum because the regime relies overwhelmingly on surface fires – mortars, artillery, and missiles."
Bombardment
Definition:
(n.) An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most important characteristics of various interfaces, such as direct liquid introduction, Magic, continuous flow fast atom bombardment and thermospray, are discussed.
(2) A method is described for measuring the stable isotopic enrichment of taurine in cat urine samples by high resolution fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry, after 15N labelled taurine was given to cats for the purpose of investigating taurine metabolism.
(3) The variability in response is attributed to interaction between nearby, on-going synaptic bombardment and the stimulus, implying that surface cathodal stimuli directly activate corticospinal neurons at the spike trigger zone (presumably the initial segment).
(4) Analysis of these polar lipids by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry established that they were F2-isoprostane-containing species of phosphatidylcholine.
(5) 5-10%), according to analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS).
(6) Its structure was determined by permethylation and fast atom bombardment-mass spectometry analyses.
(7) Their chemical structures were determined by gas-liquid chromatography, methylation analysis, enzymatic hydrolysis, negative-ion fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry, and proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
(8) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
(9) Meanwhile, rebel-held eastern Aleppo has been overrun by pro-regime forces led by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-led Shia militias supported by Russian and Syrian regime aerial bombardment.
(10) In this method, the Staphylococcus aureus protease V8 digest of the CNBr-treated B subunit of the classical biotype toxin was examined directly by fast-atom-bombardment mass spectrometry without separation of individual peptides.
(11) High-energy radiation bombardment of intact frozen telencephalon resulted in a biphasic inactivation curve for [3H]AMPA binding.
(12) After a week of the most intensive bombardment of the five-year war, forces loyal to the Syrian leader are in control of most of the countryside immediately to the north.
(13) The number of civilian casualties from Russian bombardment is far higher than the number caused by American and French airstrikes,” said Wael Aleji, spokesman for the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
(14) spectroscopy, fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry (f.a.b.-m.s.
(15) France immediately extended its bombardment of the Islamists with air strikes in central Mali.
(16) The beheading of British aid worker David Haines on 13 September and the start of US-led bombardment of Isis positions in Syria on 23 September were followed by large anti- then pro-Isis reactions.
(17) US and coalition aircraft have been bombarding the territory in and around Kobani for days, launching airstrikes on dozens of locations and taking out militants, weapons and other targets.
(18) These results indicate the usefulness of low-energy collision-activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry in the daughter and parent scan modes for the analysis of ganglioside structure, in combination with fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry and high-energy collision-activated dissociation mass spectrometry.
(19) Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry has already been used for the identification of mutations in abnormal human hemoglobin chains.
(20) The positive and negative ion fast atom bombardment spectra of myo-inositol hexakis(disodium phosphate) and myo-inositol hexakis(dihydrogen phosphate) are described.