(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."
Salvo
Definition:
(n.) An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
(n.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
(n.) A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
(2) Recently, we described a bovine aortic phosphatase which we called PCM-phosphatase (polycation modulable) because its activity in vitro can be modulated by polycations such as polylysine and histone-H1 (Di Salvo J, Gifford D, Kokkinakis A. Modulation of aortic protein phosphatase activity by polylysine.
(3) Look, these are opening salvos,” she told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.
(4) Imagine the intimidating message it sends to smaller organisations in the provinces.” In line with his attacks on Soros, Orbán launched yet another anti-EU salvo this month in the form of a government-backed consultation exercise – provocatively titled “Let’s Stop Brussels!” – which asked voters to respond to what critics say are six deliberately loaded questions presented as binary choices.
(5) Lee's case is the "opening salvo in a campaign to remove progressive forces from the political scene," Gregory Elich, a member of the advisory board at the Korea Policy Institute, wrote just before the trial. "
(6) The minimal cycle length of salvos of TA was not modified by these parameters.
(7) "The squabbles will be bitter and vicious if the first salvoes in this war are anything to go by.
(8) The latter theory may be given weight by one ear-catching phrase from the prosecution's opening salvo: "No soldier, no matter what his experience or what unit he is attached to is above the law."
(9) But she saved a special salvo for Walker for failing to support student loan refinancing options – just as the rightwing stalwart showed signs of weakness in the first formal polls since the first Republican debate last week.
(10) Three major factors responsible for the repetitive activity could be disclosed: The heart rate preceding isolated ventricular extrasystoles was lower than that preceding the salvos of VT (p less than 0.01) the duration of which increased in a linear way with the sinus rate; Duration of the cycle preceding the last sinus beat before the bursts (long duration in 77% in group A and in 57% in group B).
(11) In patients of NYHA class 3 there was a higher spontaneous variability of VPCs, couplets and salvos than in patients of NYHA class 2, but the differences could not be ensured statistically.
(12) Klein dismissed the idea that acquiring Dos Santos provided the opening salvo in the upcoming battle for the area’s soccer fans.
(13) The arrival of the G1 is the latest salvo in a fight to control the software that will power the next generation of mobile phones, which can access the internet.
(14) Sanader was clearly upset by the allegations , which he said were the opening salvo in what he predicted would be a "very dirty" opposition campaign to discredit his government over the Pliva sale.
(15) The attack that killed Sardar Ahmad and his family was the opening salvo in a string of complex assaults, including on two election offices, battering Kabul with a level of violence normally spread out over weeks or months.
(16) Donald Trump takes bait and responds to Clinton’s DNC speech with Twitter salvo Pope Francis enters Auschwitz death camp in silence The pontiff walked slowly and alone beneath the infamous gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau emblazoned with the words Arbeit Macht Frei.
(17) The combination of sotalol with mexiletine or tocainide reduced ventricular ectopic beats by 79% and complex ventricular arrhythmias (pairs and salvoes) by 85%.
(18) It opened with the salvo: "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalisation of consumption simply haven't worked … The revision of US-inspired drug policies is urgent in the light of the rising levels of violence and corruption associated with narcotics."
(19) The coupling intervals between preceding normal sinus beats and beats which led to repetitive ventricular discharge were clustered between the shortest and the longest coupling intervals which did not lead to salvoes and tachycardia.
(20) With this latest salvo, I am afraid that we must consign Dawkins to this very same pile of the irrational and the dishonest.