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ammunition

/am-yuh-nish-uhn/US // ˌæm yəˈnɪʃ ən //UK // (ˌæmjʊˈnɪʃən) //

弹药,炮弹,军队

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon, as bombs or rockets, and especially shot, shrapnel, bullets, or shells fired by guns.
    • : the means of igniting or exploding such material, as primers, fuzes, and gunpowder.
    • : any material, means, weapons, etc., used in any conflict: a crude ammunition of stones.
    • : information, advice, or supplies to help defend or attack a viewpoint, argument, or claim: Give me some ammunition for the debate.
    • : Obsolete. any military supplies.

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Examples

  • One image featured by the account shows a young man draped in ammunition and cradling a rifle in his hands.

  • Scavengers often acquire toxic levels of lead from eating gut piles and dead animals which contain lead ammunition fragments.

  • If the public decides this process wasn’t trustworthy, it will give ammunition to efforts to discredit all vaccines.

  • Vista Outdoor, owner of brands including Bushnell rifle scopes and Federal ammunition, attributes its recent growth largely to the strength of the shooting sports market.

  • Though the new study is unscientific, it’s likely to give ammunition to transit and housing advocates who’ve argued that the groups are not representative and in need of reform.

  • But even when the jet will be able to shoot its gun, the F-35 barely carries enough ammunition to make the weapon useful.

  • It was with this ammunition that Australians organized protests at events where Blanc was scheduled to appear.

  • A burly Belgian, strapped with grenades and ammunition, towered above them.

  • When Louise and Bibi returned to their home, they found it strewn with ammunition and pockmarked with mortar craters.

  • When we asked about where the ammunition in the Korengal came from, all that Zalwar Khan ever said was, “They came from Allah.”

  • Hence, shortage of ammunition and shortage of water, which last was the worse felt to-day.

  • Also, some ominous comments on what armies spend and what Governments scrimp:—that is ammunition.

  • Every gun-shot fired gives me a pain in my heart and adds to the deadly anxiety I feel about our ammunition.

  • The Austrian parlementaire pointed out that it was hopeless to continue the struggle as he had neither provisions nor ammunition.

  • I am very sorry that you cannot send the proper howitzers, and still more sorry for the reason, that of ammunition.