armament
noun
1 armament
Weaponry used by military or naval force.
Roget 673: preparation; providing etc. v.; provision, providence; anticipation etc. (foresight) 510; precaution, preconcertation†, predisposition; forecast etc. (plan) 626; rehearsal, note of preparation. [Putting in order] arrangement etc. 60; clearance; adjustment etc. 23; tuning; equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array. ripening etc. v.; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction, digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting. groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold etc. (support) 215; scaffolding, echafaudage [Fr.]. [Preparation of men] training etc. (education) 537; inurement etc. (habit) 613; novitiate; cooking [Preparation of food], cookery; brewing, culinary art; tilling, plowing, [Preparation of the soil], sowing; semination†, cultivation. [State of being prepared] preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness; maturity; un impromptu fait a loisir [Fr.]. [Preparer] preparer, trainer; pioneer, trailblazer; avant-courrier [Fr.], avant-coureur [Fr.]; voortrekker [Afrik.]; sappers and miners, pavior†, navvy†; packer, stevedore; warming pan. ... show more
Roget 727: arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament, armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor etc. (defense) 717; armory etc. (store) 636; apparatus belli [Lat.]. ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; villainous saltpeter" [Henry IV]; dumdum bullet. explosive; gunpowder, guncotton; mercury fulminate; picrates; pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN. high explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite†, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline†. [knives and swords: list] sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion†, scimitar, cimeter†, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive†, glave†, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga†, baselard†, Lochaber ax, skean dhu†, creese†, kris, dagger, dirk, banger†, poniard, stiletto, stylet†, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme†, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife†; ataghan†, attaghan†, yataghan†; yatacban†; assagai, assegai†; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy†. gun, piece [Fr.]; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece [Fr.], mortar, howitzer, carronade†, culverin†, basilisk; falconet, jingal†, swivel, pederero†, bouche a feu [Fr.]; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur [Fr.], mitrailleuse [Fr.]; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun†, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom†; ten pounder. small arms; musket, musketry, firelock†, fowling piece [Fr.], rifle, fusil†, caliver†, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon†, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss†, arquebus, haguebut†; pistol, postolet†; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot†; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet†, escopette†, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut†, shooter, shooting iron [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov. bow, crossbow, balister†, catapult, sling; battering ram etc. (impulse) 276; gunnery; ballistics etc. (propulsion) 284. missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot†, langrage shot†, round shot, chain shot; balista†, ballista†, slung shot, trebucbet†, trebucket†; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve†, congreve rocket†; shrapnel, mitraille [Fr.]; levin bolt†, levin brand†; thunderbolt. pike, lance, spear, spontoon†, javelin, dart, jereed†, jerid†, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear†, oxgoad†, weet-weet, wommerah†; cattle prod; chemical mace. ... show more
is a specific kind of: arms, implements of war, munition, weaponry, weapons system.
is a broader term that covers: armory, armoury, arsenal | artillery, gun, heavy weapon, ordnance | broadside | launcher, rocket launcher | munition, ordnance, ordnance store | torpedo.
domain category: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine.
derivation: arm.
Dutch: bewapening, krijgsmaterieel, oorlogsmateriaal, oorlogsmaterieel, oorlogstuig, wapening, wapentuig
2 armament
The act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war.
is a specific kind of: militarisation, militarization, mobilisation, mobilization.
is a broader term that covers: outfitting | rearmament.
is the opposite of: disarmament, disarming.
derivation: arm, build up, fortify, gird | equip, fit, fit out, outfit.
Dutch: bewapening, wapening
Polish: uzbrajanie siÄ™
Moby thesaurus: A-weapons, accouterment, accouterments, aegis, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armor, arms, biological weapons, catering, chandlery, conveniences, conventional weapons, deadly weapons, duffel, endowment, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, finding, fitting out, fittings, fixtures, furnishing, furnishings, furnishment, furniture, gear, guard, impedimenta, installations, instruments of destruction, investment, kit, logistics, machinery, materiel, missilery, munition, munitions, musketry, nuclear weapons, ordnance, outfit, outfitting, paraphernalia, plant, plumbing, preparation, procurement, protection, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, rig, rigging, safeguard, security, selling, shield, side arms, small arms, stock-in-trade, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, tackle, thermonuclear weapons, things, utensils, victualing, ward, weaponry, weapons ... show more.
armaments
noun
Roget 727: arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament, armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor etc. (defense) 717; armory etc. (store) 636; apparatus belli [Lat.]. ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; villainous saltpeter" [Henry IV]; dumdum bullet. explosive; gunpowder, guncotton; mercury fulminate; picrates; pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN. high explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite†, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline†. [knives and swords: list] sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion†, scimitar, cimeter†, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive†, glave†, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga†, baselard†, Lochaber ax, skean dhu†, creese†, kris, dagger, dirk, banger†, poniard, stiletto, stylet†, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme†, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife†; ataghan†, attaghan†, yataghan†; yatacban†; assagai, assegai†; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy†. gun, piece [Fr.]; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece [Fr.], mortar, howitzer, carronade†, culverin†, basilisk; falconet, jingal†, swivel, pederero†, bouche a feu [Fr.]; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur [Fr.], mitrailleuse [Fr.]; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun†, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom†; ten pounder. small arms; musket, musketry, firelock†, fowling piece [Fr.], rifle, fusil†, caliver†, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon†, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss†, arquebus, haguebut†; pistol, postolet†; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot†; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet†, escopette†, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut†, shooter, shooting iron [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov. bow, crossbow, balister†, catapult, sling; battering ram etc. (impulse) 276; gunnery; ballistics etc. (propulsion) 284. missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot†, langrage shot†, round shot, chain shot; balista†, ballista†, slung shot, trebucbet†, trebucket†; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve†, congreve rocket†; shrapnel, mitraille [Fr.]; levin bolt†, levin brand†; thunderbolt. pike, lance, spear, spontoon†, javelin, dart, jereed†, jerid†, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear†, oxgoad†, weet-weet, wommerah†; cattle prod; chemical mace. ... show more
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