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| Main Entry: | ordnance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artillery |
| Synonyms: | arms, munitions, big guns, bombs, heavy stuff, missiles, weapons |
| Notes: | ordinance means an authoritative rule or a statute enacted by a city government, while ordnance means military supplies or heavy artillery |
| Main Entry: | armament(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weapon(s) |
| Synonyms: | ammunition, arms, defense, gun, hardware, heat*, material, materiel, munitions, ordnance, protection, security, weaponry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arsenal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | storage of weapons |
| Synonyms: | armory, depository, depot, dump, factory, magazine, ordnance, plant, repository, stock, stockpile, store, storehouse, supply, warehouse |
| Main Entry: | artillery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weaponry or military unit |
| Synonyms: | arms, battery, cannon, force, munitions, ordnance, bazooka, big guns, cannonry, gunnery, heavy stuff, rainmakers, stovepipe, weapons |
| Main Entry: | cannon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large gun |
| Synonyms: | ordnance, Big Bertha, Long Tom, heavy artillery, howitzer, mortar |
| Main Entry: | gun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weapon that shoots |
| Synonyms: | 9 mm., cannon, difference*, hardware*, musket, ordnance, piece*, pistol, rifle, rod*, Saturday-night special, Uzi, blaster, equalizer, flintlock, forty-five, handgun, howitzer, magnum, mortar, peashooter, persuader, revolver, shotgun, thirty-eight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | armament |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weapon |
| Synonyms: | ammunition, arms, defense, gun, hardware, heat, material, munitions, ordnance, protection, security, weaponry |
| Main Entry: | arms |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weaponry |
| Synonyms: | artillery, equipment, munitions, ordnance, accoutrements, armaments, firearms, guns, panoply, weapons |
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