weaponweap‧on /ˈwepən/ ●●● W2 noun [countable] 
They all had sticks which they planned to use as weapons.2an action, piece of information, piece of equipment etc that you can use to win or be successful in doing something: a new weapon in the fight against AIDS Right now, she felt the need of every weapon in her armoury (=weapon that she had), including surprise.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + weaponnuclear/atomic weapons· The country is thought to be developing nuclear weapons.conventional weapons (=not nuclear)· With conventional weapons, the destruction is not so drastic.chemical/biological weapons (=weapons that use chemicals such as poisonous gases, or dangerous germs)· Troops may have been exposed to chemical weapons.an offensive weapon (=one that can be used to attack someone illegally)· He was charged with carrying an offensive weapon.a lethal/deadly weapon (=one that can kill)· A knife is a lethal weapon.the murder weapon (=the weapon used to kill someone)· Police found a knife at the scene that is believed to be the murder weapon.an automatic weapon (=an automatic gun)· He was shot 120 times with automatic weapons.verbscarry a weapon· The man is believed to be carrying a weapon.use a weapon· They claim the government used chemical weapons against them.fire a weapon (=shoot a gun or missile)· Police were told not to fire their weapons.
WORD ORIGINweapon
Origin:
Old English wæpenEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons
- Community rejection of gangs is a powerful weapon against them.
- He was arrested by police and charged with carrying an offensive weapon.
- Police are still looking for the murder weapon.
- Police have not yet found the murder weapon.
- The men were finally persuaded to come out and hand over their weapons to the police.
- The three men had blackened faces and were carrying weapons.
- During the early weeks of the 1968 Tet Offensive, the Duper was his weapon of choice.
- Everyone who looks upon it sees a different weapon.
- He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
- No weapon was seen in the 12: 20 p.m. holdup.
- They wanted the Cossacks to be allowed to carry weapons to protect themselves.
- They weren't carrying weapons, so Agnes assumed they were politicians.
- We will find the same lack of weapons in Cretan art, more than 10, 000 years after the Palcolithic.
- Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons?
Longman Language Activatora weapon
something that you use to fight with, such as a gun, bomb, or knife: · The men were finally persuaded to come out and hand over their weapons to the police.carry a weapon: · The three men had blackened faces and were carrying weapons.murder weapon (=a weapon used to kill someone): · Police have not yet found the murder weapon.an offensive weapon (=one that can be used to attack someone): · He was arrested by police and charged with carrying an offensive weapon.nuclear/chemical/conventional weapons (=atom bombs, poisonous gases, or ordinary weapons): · a treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons
weapons such as guns and bombs that are used for fighting against large numbers of people: · European governments have been supplying arms to the rebels.carry arms: · Only certain members of the police force are allowed to carry arms.lay down your arms (=stop using arms): · The government has called on the terrorists to lay down their arms.arms control (=agreements between countries to limit the number of weapons they have): · The two countries have just signed a new agreement on arms control.
bullets and other things that are fired from large or small guns: · The soldiers kept on firing until they had no more ammunition.· The terrorist group is believed to have significant quantities of guns, ammunition, and explosives.round of ammunition (=a single bullet): · We now knew that we were trapped, with only a few rounds of ammunition left.
weapons used for fighting wars - use this especially when talking about how effective, modern etc they are: · It is a highly-trained army, with very sophisticated modern weaponry.nuclear/conventional weaponry: · Many of the world's poorer countries are now beginning to invest in nuclear weaponry.
all of the weapons and military equipment that a country or fighting force has: · Their arsenal includes both SAM 7 missiles and anti-tank weapons.arsenal of: · Police have discovered an arsenal of guns and ammunition in a London house.
having weapons someone who is armed is carrying a gun or other weapon: · The two men may be armed, and should not be approached by members of the public.· Over £60,000 worth of jewellery has been stolen by an armed gang in north London.armed with: · The men were masked and armed with machine guns.heavily armed (=with lots of weapons): · a group of heavily armed soldiers
having no weapons someone who is unarmed is not carrying a gun or other weapon: · It was later discovered that the hijacker was unarmed.unarmed civilians: · The army allegedly shot dead over 300 unarmed civilians.
British /defenseless American a person, place, ship etc that is defenceless has no weapons and cannot defend itself against an attack: · In the first weeks of the war, dozens of defenceless ships were sunk by submarines.· The stick splintered under the blow and Alex was left defenseless.
to get weapons or provide someone with weapons to provide someone with weapons: · The rebels were trained, armed, and financed by foreign governments.· The majority of people still do not believe we should arm our police force.arm yourself with something: · We armed ourselves with whatever we could find - sticks, knives, bricks.
if a country rearms , it gets new or better supplies of weapons in order to prepare for fighting a war, especially after a period of peace: · They remain opposed to any suggestion that the country should be allowed to rearm.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + weapon a concealed weapon NATO’s decision to deploy cruise missiles a lethal weapon the threat of nuclear attack concern about the country’s nuclear weapons program Jan was convicted of possessing an offensive weapon. A good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon for attracting staff.
· The country is thought to be developing nuclear weapons.
(=not nuclear)· With conventional weapons, the destruction is not so drastic.
(=weapons that use chemicals such as poisonous gases, or dangerous germs)· Troops may have been exposed to chemical weapons.
(=one that can be used to attack someone illegally)· He was charged with carrying an offensive weapon.
(=one that can kill)· A knife is a lethal weapon.
(=the weapon used to kill someone)· Police found a knife at the scene that is believed to be the murder weapon.
(=an automatic gun)· He was shot 120 times with automatic weapons.
verbs· The man is believed to be carrying a weapon.
· They claim the government used chemical weapons against them.
(=shoot a gun or missile)· Police were told not to fire their weapons.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· a global chemical weapons ban
(=poisonous chemicals used as weapons)· a global treaty banning chemical weapons
a concealed weapon (=one which involves selling weapons)· A number of recent arms deals have embarrassed the government.
NATO’s decision to deploy cruise missiles (=weapons intended to cause a lot of death and destruction)· The country is believed to have the potential to develop weapons of mass destruction.
(=make it shoot) the sound of a gun being fired
the sound of a gun being fired· He was charged with carrying an illegal weapon.
(=to see what weapons someone has)· The government has agreed to allow UN weapons inspections in the country.
a lethal weapon (=the gun, knife etc used to murder someone)· Have they found the murder weapon?
the threat of nuclear attack concern about the country’s nuclear weapons program Jan was convicted of possessing an offensive weapon. A good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon for attracting staff. (=an event, situation etc that can be used for propaganda)· Sporting success was an important propaganda weapon during the Cold War.
(=weapons designed to reach an enemy country from your own) strategic nuclear missiles
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE strategic nuclear missiles· When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945, he was no enthusiast of atomic weapons, but that programme proceeded.· B-29s were known around the world as the bombers that carried atomic weapons.· There is some residual radiation, indicating that atomic weapons were in use approximately five thousand years ago.· In 1974 congressional committees began raising questions in public about the security and usefulness of the atomic weapons.· Nowhere was this more evident than in the marked differences in the handling of collaboration in the atomic and conventional weapons fields.· Under Eisenhower, the United States developed smaller atomic weapons that could be used tactically on the battlefield.· They argued that the use of atomic weapons violated both conventional and customary international law.· Furthermore, he saw incompatibility in Britain spending large sums on atomic weapons whilst accepting Marshall Aid.
· Its automatic weapons chatter nightly, and mortars crump in reply.· Pepper spray is not automatic weapons fire.· At present only automatic weapons are covered.· At that point, small arms and automatic weapons opened up.· The Renault was surrounded by guns, some of them automatic weapons.· One guy had a canteen on his hip which was shot off; it was automatic weapons.· Figures are now running in front of us, shots are fired from automatic weapons, the running figures fall down.· They wore black boots, green military fatigues, had their faces covered with black ski masks and carried automatic weapons.
· The accord also authorized the creation of a mechanism to monitor the observance of conventions banning biological weapons.· He has been especially dodgy about agreements meant to prevent him from developing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.· Mitterrand suggested extending Bush's measures to chemical and biological as well as conventional weapons and applying the plan globally.· A second biological weapons inspection team, which arrived on Sept. 20, was expected to complete its mission in early October.· Experts say chemical, biological and nuclear weapons are available as never before.· Some are trying to obtain nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.· We tend to focus on nuclear but chemical and biological weapons, while not as devastating, would be plenty bad.
· The thought of a beleaguered Ceausescu in possession of chemical weapons is a chilling one.· Many of its chemical weapons are kept in aging and unsafe facilities.· The completion of multilateral negotiations on the abolition of chemical weapons will be pursued.· Resolution 44/115 on chemical weapons was adopted without a vote.· More than a score of nations now seeks or possesses chemical weapons.· If we refuse to ratify, some governments will use our refusal as an excuse to keep their chemical weapons.
· With conventional weapons, the destruction is not so drastic, far more controlled, and more accurate and economical.· It was battle scarred, but mountains are not vulnerable to conventional weapons.· Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms.· Nowhere was this more evident than in the marked differences in the handling of collaboration in the atomic and conventional weapons fields.· Mitterrand suggested extending Bush's measures to chemical and biological as well as conventional weapons and applying the plan globally.· Propose new disarmament initiatives covering all categories of conventional and nuclear weapons.· It was believed that the Soviets already had superiority in conventional armies and weapons.· Development studies During the last decade, the international trade in conventional weapons has almost doubled in volume every five years.
· The trebuchet; a twelfth-century example of this deadly weapon, capable of enormous destruction as a siege engine.· Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.· My hands and feet are registered with the local constabulary as deadly weapons.· He was booked into the Vista jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.
· But this week's guerrillas numbered more than 1,000, some of them with heavy weapons.· There were no signs that heavy weapons or aircraft had been brought to the area, and little fortification was visible.· Intense shooting and the boom of heavy weapons erupted in the capital, Lome, before dawn.· It has monitored the movement of heavy weapons into storage areas and formerly warring troops into barracks.· And it will plan how to monitor heavy weapons if a ceasefire takes hold.· Once in Beirut, all heavy weapons would be collected from the militias.· More than the heavy weapons, this banal accoutrement of a rudimentary accountancy scared me shitless.· She had been hit violently on the back of the head with a heavy weapon.
· Bearing in mind that the knife is a lethal weapon, what happens if you get it wrong?· Roughly half of child killers used a gun, while 16 percent used their own hands and feet as lethal weapons.· As I couldn't take Lisabeth with me, it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon.· Being in charge of a lethal weapon, so to speak.· Sentencing Harris, Lord Sutherland, told him that attempted murders involving such lethal weapons were becoming far too prevalent.· Atkinson has a lethal weapon in Dean Saunders - recruited from Liverpool - who is aiming to wreck United's dream.· For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon.· But in the wrong hands they are as lethal a weapon as a gun.
· Development of all major new weapons programmes would nevertheless continue but over a longer time span.· Carroll said the military is needlessly wasting money on new weapons and too many overseas commitments, such as peacekeeping in Bosnia.· A new weapon had been discovered.· Anyone who wins the use of a new weapon ought to have a chance to recognize its dangers.· It would give a clear message: that the nuclear-weapon states have stopped developing new nuclear weapons.· They intend to spend more on service pay as well as on new weapons and new weapons technology.· More successful than any of these methods, however, looks to be a new biological weapon, a nematode.· If you are lucky, you can get a new weapon.
· Draw battlefield nuclear weapons back from the front line.· Later some of the Bevanites, though not Mr Bevan himself, added opposition to nuclear weapons to their list of policies.· In the ensuing years much larger nuclear weapons were developed.· Distinctions between categories of nuclear weapons should therefore be discouraged.
· Paul Lowe, 27, and William Young, 21, both of Rochdale, were each charged with carrying offensive weapons.· He appealed to Khrushchev to remove the offensive weapons under United Nations supervision.· Two Haverhill men have been charged with threatening behaviour and possession of offensive weapons.· Police had considered taking action against David as they said he was carrying an offensive weapon his bendy rubber truncheon.· He was convicted of carrying an offensive weapon and got a 28-day suspended sentence and £200 fine.· The commuter was prosecuted, found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon, and fined.· Conventional troop cuts will be accompanied by a reorganization of units in charge of offensive nuclear weapons.
· Then she realised that her other hand held a much more potent weapon.· The Khans will tell you that many have now replaced the rifle with another potent weapon, the squash racquet.· But a good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon when it comes to attracting and keeping staff.· Control of an almost adult king was a potent political weapon.
· Fear is one of the Dark Lord's most powerful weapons yet some of his army are defeated by it.· Procrastination or partial responses are powerful weapons.· New powers to refuse wastes and revoke licences are potentially powerful weapons in controlling the movement and safe disposal of wastes.· This was a very powerful and awesome weapon.· They are powerful if unreliable weapons, and each one is a valuable artifact, encrusted with baroque decoration and intricate designs.· Potentially the most powerful of support weapons were Air Force and Navy jets.· Manipulation People who manipulate use guilt and blame-they are powerful weapons to get people to do something.· It is an extraordinarily powerful political weapon.
· His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June.· And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon.· Further, there was the frightening possibility of new secret weapons.· So long as she stayed silent she had a secret weapon.· Yet Drake had been aided by a secret weapon.· But his real secret weapon is an amazing talent for simultaneously combining slide with fretted notes.· The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel.
· I told him also that Britain's only strategic weapon would be the minimum deterrent constituted by Trident.· But by 1990 the world was no longer bipolar, except in strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems.· The United States considers strategic weapons negotiations the most pressing issue to be sorted out at the summit.· This meant that the world would be free of strategic nuclear weapons by the year 1996.· The United States still had a substantial lead in strategic weapons.
· But these women also employed medical definitions of physical and mental weakness as an effective tactical weapon in the battle with men.· The amount of uranium in the belt is about four billion tons, enough to make roughly a trillion tactical nuclear weapons.· Beneath this umbrella of deterrence are tactical weapons.· Shevardnadze also proposed a halt in nuclear testing and cuts in tactical nuclear weapons.· Denis Healey was again in the forefront of the efforts to devise satisfactory guidelines for the use of tactical nuclear weapons.· The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned.· Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities.
NOUN· The manufacture and sale of nine types of foreign and domestic semi-automatic assault weapons would also be prohibited for three years.· Manufacturers continue to glut communities with handguns, assault weapons and ammunition.· But the ban helped drop the number of assault weapons traced to crimes to 3, 504· I will veto any attempt to repeal the assault weapons ban or the Brady bill.· You want to add more magazines to the assault weapons so they can spray and kill even more people.· Dole said the assault weapons ban did not work, because many of the weapons were altered to make them legal.· He still stands for repealing the assault weapons ban.
· The new chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, may make a difference.
· Hayes found the murder weapon, a flat iron with blood and Maria's hair upon it, in a cupboard.· The murder weapon, a Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, was left at the scene in a plastic bag.· I think this was the murder weapon.· There may be some account of what happened to the murder weapon.· After all, anybody who read the description of the murder weapon in the Saturday papers could have sent the knives.· A murder weapon in that case was never recovered.· My only direct experience with murder weapons was Cluedo, but even I knew enough not to mess with it.· Nico and Molto had been clever enough not to search for the murder weapon, too.
· But each also has the capability of being built into defensive weapons systems.· To put it mildly, this is great news for the companies that stand to make the weapons systems.· When a contract for a weapon system is received, a project manager is appointed.· Traditionally, ships and weapons systems are developed by different contractors with little coordination during the design phase.· Many of the weapons systems that we use now are bigger than before and have longer ranges, and so on.· There were certain additional restrictions upon the types of weapon systems that could be deployed within these limits.· Yet it is not clear that this promise can be translated into any effective weapon systems.· Using wholly incompatible weapons systems and riven by language difficulties, the troops lack the capacity to fight as coordinated units.
VERB· They ride fierce war boars and are armed with a hand weapon.· On the other hand, to arm Anacreon with all weapons of warfare.· This is particularly true for a defensive system based on comparatively small, independent units, armed with short-range weapons.· Hand Gunners are highly effective warriors armed with primitive gunpowder weapons.· Many locals keep weapons at home, ostensibly for hunting but mostly for show, while religious leaders need armed bodyguards.· The women, armed with smuggled weapons, explosives and bottles of acid, were joined by male inmates.
· The accord also authorized the creation of a mechanism to monitor the observance of conventions banning biological weapons.· A decree in February banned the sale of weapons to countries involved in armed conflict.· Next week he will appeal to the Senate to ratify a global treaty to ban chemical weapons.· City and county government have the option to ban weapons on public property.
· But each also has the capability of being built into defensive weapons systems.· Has there been an improvement in stopping smuggling and building weapons of mass destruction?· It is true that a country does not need a nuclear power programme to be able to build a nuclear weapon.· Then he took it a step further -- he built a medieval weapon.· They began a crash program to modernize and strengthen their fleet and to build nuclear weapons with ICBMs to carry them.· Malykh said Mayak was built to produce weapons for the former Soviet Union.
· For these purposes they would also tend to wear the most heavily reinforced boots and might occasionally carry weapons of some kind.· They wore black boots, green military fatigues, had their faces covered with black ski masks and carried automatic weapons.· Paul Lowe, 27, and William Young, 21, both of Rochdale, were each charged with carrying offensive weapons.· It always struck me that they had enough people to carry all the weapons.· They wanted the Cossacks to be allowed to carry weapons to protect themselves.· Police had considered taking action against David as they said he was carrying an offensive weapon his bendy rubber truncheon.
· In order to conceal weapons, secret pockets were sewn into the linings of coats.· Six more states, including Texas, implemented laws on Jan. 1 that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.· A kindergartner gets caught with a butter knife in his school backpack and is expelled for carrying a concealed weapon.· Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.· The 8 {-by 14-inch paper outlines an argument that the Arizona Constitution already guarantees the right to carry concealed weapons.
· Johnson has deployed two fearsome weapons: her connections and her charm.· So the United States has no deployed chemical weapons today and will have none in the future.· The president deployed the weapon with which he has calmed past discontents, saying he would announce his heir-apparent.· They tell us that we should not manufacture and deploy nuclear weapons.
· By these criteria, some high-tech weapons are cost-effective to develop, even if enemy weapons stagnate.· Under Eisenhower, the United States developed smaller atomic weapons that could be used tactically on the battlefield.· It would make it harder to develop new weapons, but not impossible.
· He then fires the weapon, which automatically steers itself toward the target and dives on to its vulnerable upper parts.· According to legend, anyone who ever fired the weapon died of a broken heart or cardiac arrest.· For those sixty seconds you are not a legitimate target, nor can you fire your own weapon.· The troops marched around him, firing their automatic weapons.· As if in slow motion they both aimed and fired their weapons.· Everyone around me seems to be firing their weapons.· Figures are now running in front of us, shots are fired from automatic weapons, the running figures fall down.· Mobs burned tyres in the streets, and the prudent stayed at home while soldiers drove around firing their weapons.
· And so we used the small weapons we had.· As boys grow older, they readily turn to wrestling and combative play using make-believe weapons of war and violence.· It's not the same plutonium as used in weapons and the nuclear industry.· They left radioactive material in Moscow and said they were going to use that kind of weapon....· The huge horns are used both as a weapon and as a shield.· Basil used his weapons with restraint and on legitimate targets.· The soldiers escorting it used their weapons to help destroy the creatures.· Linked to the machine by electrodes, he had learned the best way to use every weapon ever invented.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1something that you use to fight with or attack someone with, such as a knife, bomb, or gun: - He knew then that the mystery of Titron was only partly explained by the secret biological warfare establishment.
- Regional conflicts - along with the proliferation of missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons - present growing dangers.
- Schwarzkopf strongly defended his field commanders from allegations that they were careless about chemical and biological weapons.
- We tend to focus on nuclear but chemical and biological weapons, while not as devastating, would be plenty bad.
- But the potential financial boost is a double-edged sword.
- It's been said before that being well-known is a double-edged sword.
- That can be a double-edged sword, commercially and artistically.
- The competition rules must be regarded as a double-edged sword by businesses.
- This, however, rapidly proved a double-edged weapon.
- Throughout our history, judicial review has been a double-edged sword.
- And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon.
- But his real secret weapon is an amazing talent for simultaneously combining slide with fretted notes.
- Further, there was the frightening possibility of new secret weapons.
- His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June.
- So long as she stayed silent she had a secret weapon.
- The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel.
- Yet Drake had been aided by a secret weapon.
- Beneath this umbrella of deterrence are tactical weapons.
- But these women also employed medical definitions of physical and mental weakness as an effective tactical weapon in the battle with men.
- The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned.
- Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities.
They all had sticks which they planned to use as weapons.2an action, piece of information, piece of equipment etc that you can use to win or be successful in doing something: a new weapon in the fight against AIDS Right now, she felt the need of every weapon in her armoury (=weapon that she had), including surprise.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + weaponnuclear/atomic weapons· The country is thought to be developing nuclear weapons.conventional weapons (=not nuclear)· With conventional weapons, the destruction is not so drastic.chemical/biological weapons (=weapons that use chemicals such as poisonous gases, or dangerous germs)· Troops may have been exposed to chemical weapons.an offensive weapon (=one that can be used to attack someone illegally)· He was charged with carrying an offensive weapon.a lethal/deadly weapon (=one that can kill)· A knife is a lethal weapon.the murder weapon (=the weapon used to kill someone)· Police found a knife at the scene that is believed to be the murder weapon.an automatic weapon (=an automatic gun)· He was shot 120 times with automatic weapons.verbscarry a weapon· The man is believed to be carrying a weapon.use a weapon· They claim the government used chemical weapons against them.fire a weapon (=shoot a gun or missile)· Police were told not to fire their weapons.