| 单词 | artillery |
| 释义 | artillery (once / 244 pages) 1n 2n Artillery refers to large-caliber guns — guns with big barrels — which can be moved from one place to another for land battles. The artillery is also the name for the army unit that uses these big guns. If you're a military commander and you say, "Bring in the heavy artillery," you're ordering the artillery to move into place and get ready for action. But if you're talking to fellow members of your debate team and you say, “Bring in the heavy artillery,” you mean "bring in our best debaters, our heaviest hitters." Artillery can refer to one weapon or 100 — the singular and plural are the same. WORD FAMILYartillery: artilleries USAGE EXAMPLESEarly in her career, she was as an engineer for a research institute attached to the Chinese army’s Second Artillery Corps. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) It was the Canadiens who finally stopped the Soldiers, which is to say they “spiked the artillery of the fusiliers.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Louis Cardin was killed by a rocket attack March 19 while he was stationed at an artillery outpost south of Mosul. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n large but transportable armament Syn|Hypo|Hyper gun, heavy weapon, ordnance cannon a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels field artillery, field gunmovable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops) four-pounderan artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds basiliskancient brass cannon culverina heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries harpoon guna cannon or similar gun that fires harpoons high-angle guna cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges long toma long swivel cannon formerly used by the navy armament weaponry used by military or naval force 2n an army unit that uses big guns 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper artillery unit battery group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place army unit a military unit that is part of an army n a means of persuading or arguing Syn|Hyper weapon persuasion, suasion the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action |
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