artillery
21artillery — noun (plural leries) Etymology: Middle English artillerie, from Anglo French, from artiller to equip, arm, alteration of Old French atillier, from Vulgar Latin *apticulare, from Latin aptare to don, prepare, fit more at adapt Date: 15th century …
22artillery — ar|til|le|ry [a:ˈtıləri US a:r ] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: artillerie, from artillier to provide with equipment or weapons ] 1.) [U] large guns, either on wheels or fixed in one place 2.) the artillery the part of the army that… …
23artillery — ar|til|ler|y [ ar tıl(ə)ri ] noun uncount large powerful guns that are used by an army and are moved on wheels or fixed in one place the artillery the part of an army that uses large powerful guns …
24artillery — [14] Originally artillery meant ‘military supplies, munitions’ (Chaucer used it thus); it was not until the late 15th century that it came to be used for ‘weapons for firing missiles’ – originally catapults, bows, etc. The source of the English… …
25artillery — n needles, hypodermic syringes and other paraphernalia used by heroin addicts. The image of an arsenal of deadly equip ment is typical of addicts own self dram atising slang (as in shooting gallery, harpoon, etc.) Have you got the artillery ready …
26artillery — [α: tɪləri] noun (plural artilleries) large calibre guns used in warfare on land. ↘a branch of the armed forces trained to use artillery. Derivatives artillerist noun Origin ME: from OFr. artillerie, from artiller, alt. of atillier equip, arm ,… …
27artillery — n. 1. Ordnance, cannon, enginery, great guns. 2. Gunnery, theory of ordnance, art of handling artillery …
28artillery — noun 1 (U) large guns, especially ones on wheels or fixed in one place, such as on a ship 2 the artillery the part of the army that uses these weapons …
29artillery — UK [ɑː(r)ˈtɪlərɪ] / US [ɑrˈtɪl(ə)rɪ] noun 1) [uncountable] large powerful guns that are used by an army and are moved on wheels or fixed in one place 2) the artillery the part of an army that uses large powerful guns …
30artillery — artilerija statusas T sritis Gynyba apibrėžtis Ginklų rūšis: ↑pabūklai (haubicos, patrankos, minosvaidžiai ir kt.) ir jų judėjimo priemonės; šaudmenys; kovinio aprūpinimo (ugnies valdymo, žvalgybos, šaudymo aprūpinimo) priemonės. Rusijos ir kt.… …
