Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Projectiles, such as bullets and shot, together with their fuses and primers, that can be fired from guns or otherwise propelled.
- n. Nuclear, biological, chemical, or explosive material, such as rockets or grenades, that are used as weapons.
- n. An object used as a missile in offense or defense: Rocks were my only ammunition against the bear.
- n. A means of attacking or defending an argument, thesis, or point of view.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Military stores or provisions for attack or defense; in modern usage, only the materials which are used in the discharge of firearms and ordnance of all kinds, as powder, balls, bombs, various kinds of shot, etc.
- To supply with ammunition.
Wiktionary
- n. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
- n. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
- n. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
- n. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
- v. To provide with ammunition.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction
- n. information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint
- n. projectiles to be fired from a gun
Etymologies
- French amunition, for munition, probably caused by taking "la munition" as "l'amunition". See munition. (Wiktionary)
- Obsolete French amunition, from l'amunition, the provisioning, alteration of la munition, from Old French, from Latin mūnītiō, mūnītiōn-, fortification; see munition. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Giannoulis will recover and then the ammunition is already spent.”
The NRSC wastes *no* time on properly greeting Giannoulias. | RedState
“A variety of ammunition is available to suit just about every survival need, to include 180 grain hard cast bullets.”
“Non-toxic ammunition is so good now that we have loads that can kill birds farther away than most of us can hit them.”
“Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded.”
“Seems like magazines like Field and Stream could have an article explaining that rumors ammunition is going to be all snatched up by the Feds is just stupid urban legend.”
“A scoped in-line that differs from a Ruger No. 1 single shot rifle only in which end of the barrel the assembled ammunition is loaded is certainly not primitive and is a muzzleloader in name only.”
“Factory ammunition is more consistent than it was in the past, but your handloads will be as consistent as you are in your reloading process.”
“Their ammunition is usually worth much more, and you can carry more of it.”
“It was a profound experience, because I walked sections of the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres, even found live ammunition from the war some 90 years ago (there's an essay about that trip on my website).”
“In the vast majority of states no defense would be necessary, as firearms are not registered and ammunition is not banned.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ammunition’.
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vacation, suggestion, donation, condition, education, examination, federation, generation, imagination, invention, operation, pollution and 166 more...
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US - war on terror
mirandize, heavily-guarded h..., capture, manhunt, shootout, bloodied, suspect, gunshot wound, citywide lockdown, house-by-house se..., intelligence oppo..., naturalized Ameri... and 463 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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SEDE - weapons
ammunition, anti-aircraft mac..., anti-vehicle mine, automatic machine..., ballistic missile..., bazooka, biological weapons, booby trap, bunker-busting bomb, chemical weapons, cluster bomb, light battleship and 218 more...
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FUN - gestures
There are thousands of sign languages and possibly millions of gestures in human communication but not all of them have a name. Some are understood everywhere, some are understood everywhere but di...
okay sign, abhayamudra, apology, beckoning sign, Bellamy salute, benediction, blessing, blah-blah, "check, please” sign, clenched fist, Chinese number ge..., Clinton thumb and 360 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Columns
columns, column, doric, ionic, newspaper, advice, sports, feature, cortical, vertebral, ammunition, tuscan and 11 more...
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Cinnamony Sea Anemones & Co.
Words full of m's and n's are a little-known cure for sadness.
aeschynomenous, monomoy, zamzummim, abdominous, abhominal, abonnement, acetaminophen, acetophenone, adenomyoma, aeronomer, agnominal, albuminimeter and 229 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 1008 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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is this all there is
this is it
dillema, destruction, conundrum, proxy, spurious, usurp, divulge, vapid, lucid, malicious, ubseqious, burden and 75 more...
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introduction to death
words that cause death,or defines death.
detonate, explosive, ammunition, rocket, shrapnel, grenade, nitroglycerin, propellant, fireworks, fuel, combustible, electricity and 62 more...
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Pruufreadr's Words
mica, leaf, geologist, geology, motocross, marshmallow, marshlands, everlasting, fidelity, whiskey, amazingly, forgotten and 47 more...
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candyman's Words
bike, ninja, ammunition, cyclist, pie, pie, adventure, grove, star, tree, he, she and 36 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ammunition.
vanishedone A sock, apparently; citation on ganzey. This sense isn't in the O.E.D., but it does mention ammunition-boots, footwear supplied as part of soldiers' kit, so maybe there's a connection. Mar 21, 2009