What's the difference between gunnery and nunnery?

Gunnery


Definition:

  • (n.) That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acrobatic and gunnery training flight phases were considered physical load, strong interpretative actions, and emotional stress tasks.
  • (2) Gunnery, radar, navigation, and other systems had suffered degraded performance because of operator errors.
  • (3) Wounded marine gunnery sergeant Jeremiah Purdie (centre) with stricken comrades in south Vietnam, 1966.
  • (4) The gunnery sergeant's actions earned him a Silver Star and Purple Heart, but cost him his career.
  • (5) The training was provided by a team of three: a battery commander surveillance targeting and acquisition battery (Maj); a sergeant major instructor in gunnery surveillance targeting and acquisition (WOII); and a troop staff sergeant and SME [subject matter expert in] surveillance targeting and acquisition battery (Staff Sgt).” The MoD also acknowledged there was an “ongoing engagement” between the Saudi and UK air forces over Storm Shadow.
  • (6) The training was provided by a team of four: a battery commander close support artillery battery (Maj); a battery captain close support artillery (Capt); a sergeant major instructor in gunnery close support artillery (WOII); and a detachment commander close support artillery (Sgt).” The MoD said the weapons-locating radar courses were “delivered to a mixed group of soldiers and officers from the RSLF field artillery”.
  • (7) In 1943 he was drafted into the US Army Air Corps, where he became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, a gunnery instructor, and a specialist in the prototypes of computer-aided bomb-sights and gun turrets.
  • (8) For the actual flight, the frequency decreased under takeoff and landing, and remained as at rest during the gunnery and acrobatic training flight.

Nunnery


Definition:

  • (n.) A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having snapped the picture of the reverend in flagrante, the two ran off in their underpants "through a nunnery at midnight" to get the story safely into the paper.
  • (2) The state news agency Sana reported on Monday that six nuns, including the Maaloula convent's mother superior Pelagia Sayaf, were trapped in the nunnery.
  • (3) In Ireland, rebel folk endures and develops, uniquely – just listen to Lizzie Nunnery's England Loves a Poor Boy .
  • (4) In both periods food supply ensued from the central kitchen of a nunnery.
  • (5) Officials from the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, India, said the 20-year-old from the Dechen Chokorling nunnery killed herself at a crossroads.
  • (6) Sure, there were elements to the Spice Girls that were very obviously contrived and "for the dads", but compared with Christina Aguilera gyrating in a puddle while wearing crotchless leather chaps, which I got to witness a few years later, they practically belonged in a nunnery.
  • (7) When her bosom flutters with love for her master she returns to the nunnery.
  • (8) We then found and bought at place called Meadow Cottage in Norfolk, it had been all matter of things from a school to a nunnery.