| 单词 | armory |
| 释义 | armory (once / 4575 pages) n An armory is a special military building where weapons and ammunition are kept. In the old days, when an army needed more cannon balls, it would retrieve them from an armory. An armory is an important part of a military's assets, since it stores arms and equipment and is also sometimes the place where soldiers are trained to use them. Another way to use the noun armory is to refer to a stockpile or stash of non-military goods. You might talk about, for example, your armory of cupcake recipes or your armory of perfectly sharpened pencils. The Latin root, arma, means "weapons." WORD FAMILYarmory: armories USAGE EXAMPLESIn St. Louis a developer is seeking 15 years of tax abatements to refurbish an abandoned armory into a hotel-office complex including a craft brewery. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) The men, both artists, lived in a former National Guard armory that was carved up into apartments. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) But spaces in 18 armories tested significantly higher than the federal standard, Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1n a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms Syn|Hyper armoury, arsenal military installation any facility servicing military forces 2n all the weapons and equipment that a country has Syn|Hyper armoury, arsenal armament weaponry used by military or naval force 3n a place where arms are manufactured Syn|Hyper armoury, arsenal foundry, metalworks factory where metal castings are produced 4n a collection of resources he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer Syn|Hyper armoury, inventory imagination, resource, resourcefulness the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems |
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