(n.) Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
Example Sentences:
(1) The study considered the government's six largest "trading funds" (which cover their costs by selling their products and services to the public and private sectors) ranked by sales of information: the Met Office, Ordnance Survey, UK Hydrographic Office, Land Registry of England and Wales, Companies House and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.
(2) Incidence data collected by two specialist registries were used to compare incidence rates at ward level with relevant ward characteristics derived from routine census and Ordnance Survey data for England and Wales.
(3) In 1994 he visited Britain to inspect a missile project being developed jointly between the Chilean army and the Royal Ordnance (RO) arms company.
(4) He returned to the city in 2008 and has lived here ever since as a member of Veterans for Peace campaigning on behalf of victims of Agent Orange and unexploded ordnance.
(5) Ignorance of the scale of the challenge can sometimes be bliss, he added: “You can be halfway up the mountain before you realise what the challenges are.” Stapleton’s keynote speech was followed by a panel discussion by the owners of three very different businesses: Joanna Montgomery, who founded Little Riot , which makes Pillow Talk wristbands; Nick Edwards, founder of software company Papaya Resources ; and Arpana Gandhi, who founded Disarmco , a company that has developed a safe way of disposing of landmines and other unexploded ordnance (explosive weapons).
(6) Although its relevance to human wounding can be debated, the terminal ballistics of military small arms in ordnance gelatin remains a convenient medium for comparative testing.
(7) The MoD has been unable to identify a military target for around three-quarters of these ‘likely coalition’ strikes.” Roy Isbister of the conflict prevention group Saferworld said it was “highly likely” that UK-built planes “have been used to drop large amounts of ordnance” in Yemen.
(8) Ordnance Survey estimates that moving to a free data model would cost government a total of £367.1m in its first five years, compared with £181.2m for its present plans to move to a hybrid model, according to a leaked briefing to its minister.
(9) They are doing so with weaponry that the UK has sold them, with ordnance that the UK is replacing, and with the help of, or at least with no obstruction from, the UK’s military personnel attached to their headquarters.
(10) "They dramatically reduce the danger to US personnel and to innocent civilians, especially considered against massive ordnance that can cause injury and death far beyond the intended target," he said.
(11) NHS organisations are covered by the recently agreed Ordnance Survey public service mapping agreement (PSMA), which provides a single agreement for the public sector, allowing state sector organisations to use, free of charge, consistent geodata for which they previously had to pay.
(12) Unexploded ordnance is a troublesome legacy of the second world war and has been an ongoing problem for the island nations of the south-west Pacific,” Lieutenant General Evans of the ADF said at the time .
(13) The department’s contractors have instigated measures to address a range of hazards and environmental risks identified in the reports.” Hazardous waste and soil contamination The report highlights the risks of triggering unexploded ordnance and exposure to hazardous asbestos.
(14) Recommendations for autopsy procedures in cases involving military ordnance are discussed.
(15) In a report published on Monday, the campaign group We Own It calculates that if Osborne sells the Land Registry, National Air Traffic Services, Channel 4 and the Ordnance Survey the public will kiss goodbye to control over £7.7bn in dividends and profits in the next 50 years.
(16) In total, the Vietnamese government estimates that around 15% of the total surface area of the country is contaminated by unexploded ordnance (UXO).
(17) Under Conservative governments, large quantities of British arms were sold to Chile, and British firms such as Royal Ordnance collaborated with the development of Chile's weapons potential.
(18) Before arriving I got out the two Ordnance Explorer maps of the county and went along the coast marking every beach, then read every online and published comment I could find.
(19) The UN children’s agency, Unicef , said at least 64 children had been killed by air strikes, 26 by unexploded ordnance and mines, 19 by gunshots, three by shelling and three by “unverified causes related to the conflict”.
(20) Priority is being given to projects to provide clean water and sanitation following extreme water shortages, as well as emergency healthcare, clearance of unexploded ordnance and counselling and care for civilians, particularly women and children.
Swivel
Definition:
(a.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
(a.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun.
(v. i.) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Political policy is based on swivel-eyed assumptions and prejudices, rather than the world, evidence, the reality of suffering, the reality of global warming.
(2) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(3) It is likely that the target of camptothecin is the "swivel" topoisomerase required for DNA replication and that it is located at or very near the replication fork in vivo.
(4) The cannulation system consists of an injection port 'In Stoppers' as a flow swivel, connected to an injection needle, which is inserted into a polyethylene tube protected by a steel spiral.
(5) Inside Hall’s lair was a glass table on which lay his spectacle case and iPad (no computers for ranking BBC execs), surrounded by seats rescued from an old kitchen, and a pair of swivel chairs salvaged from Television Centre.
(6) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.
(7) That's slightly different from what Feldman said earlier this year after the Times and the Telegraph reported that a senior figure had said that Conservative associations "are all mad, swivel-eyed loons."
(8) These animals were tethered for periods of 14-70 h during which brain perfusates and peripheral blood samples were collected at 10- to 30-min intervals through the tether-swivel assembly.
(9) The asymmetrical swivel face-bow as described above is advisable to use because eccentric bendings and less forces at the outer-bows will decrease, stop or even reverse the asymmetrical effect.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Survivor of Bataclan attack: ‘it was a bloodbath’ He then swivelled and shot through a car drivers’ window.
(11) We discuss a model in which supercoiling changes are produced by differential swiveling activities on the opposite sides of a transcriptional flow during transcriptional modulation.
(12) It is the raging rows over Ukip, gay marriage, Europe and swivel-eyed loons that have given these people a political presence.
(13) Nigel Farage went down in the second round, gasping for air, eyes swivelling.
(14) It comes as a shock then to discover that in one crucial and fundamental area of social care the SNP resembles the "swivel-eyed loons" of the Tory shires.
(15) Osborne called it “fantastic” on 5 July, only to clash with Whittingdale who called the show “debatable” on 14 July, but who then, no doubt under pressure from his chancellor, swivelled, calling it “admirable” by 19 July.
(16) A new design of swivel walker for the severely disabled is described which has advantages over previous types.
(17) The key to this system is a swiveling guide tube held in a small, skull-mounted base by a low-melting-point metal alloy.
(18) Alejandro Faurlin fizzed a low shot wide after swivelling near the penalty spot.
(19) The overall system consisted of a harness and jacket, an umbilical and back pack, a combined electrical and fluid transmission swivel and a monitoring implant and catheters.
(20) The use of metabolism cage and swivel joint-equipped infusion system allows also continuous infusion of fluids in freely-moving animals.