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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun munition has 3 senses
- munition(n = noun.artifact) arms, implements of war, weaponry, weapons system - weapons considered collectively; Array has particulars: ammo, ammunition, armament, bomb, defence system, defense system, gunnery, hardware, naval weaponry
- munition(n = noun.artifact) ordnance, ordnance store - military supplies; Array is a kind of armament
- munition(n = noun.artifact) fortification - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it; Array has particulars: bastion, bunker, dugout, castle, defilade, entrenchment, intrenchment, escarp, escarpment, protective embankment, scarp, fieldwork, lunette, palisade, breastwork, parapet, redoubt, stockade, maginot line, siegfried line
is a kind of instrumentality, instrumentation
has parts: arm, weapon, weapon system
Derived form verb munition1
is a kind of defence, defense, defensive structure
has parts: bulwark, rampart, wall
Verb munition has 1 sense
- munition(v = verb.possession) Array - supply with weapons; Array is one way to arm
Derived form noun munition1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
munition, n. [F., munition of war, L. munitio a fortifying, fortification, fr. munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. moenia walls, murus (for moirus) a wall, and Skr. mi to fix, make firm. Cf. Ammunition.].
- Fortification; stronghold. [1913 Webster]"His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks." [1913 Webster]
- Whatever materials are used in war for defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds. [1913 Webster]"The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
munition, n. & v.
--n. (usu. in pl.) military weapons, ammunition, equipment, and stores.
--v.tr. supply with munitions.
--n. (usu. in pl.) military weapons, ammunition, equipment, and stores.
--v.tr. supply with munitions.
Etymology
F f. L munitio -onis fortification (as MUNIMENT)
THESAURUS
munition
accouter, appoint, arm, dress, equip, fit, fit out, fit up, furnish, gear, heel, man, outfit, prepare, rig, rig out, rig up, staff, turn outROGET THESAURUS
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Materials
N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.Defense
N defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.
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