different between artillery vs gunnery
artillery
English
Etymology
From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie (“collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc.”), from artillier (“to equip, provide with contraptions”), alteration of atiller (“to arrange, adjust, put on clothes or, especially, pieces of armour”) (influenced by art), itself from a Vulgar Latin *apticl?re < *apticul?re, from Latin apt?re (“to make capable”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???t?l??i/
- (US) IPA(key): /???t?l??i/
Noun
artillery (countable and uncountable, plural artilleries)
- Large projectile weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person; usually various types of cannon, but rocket artillery also exists.
- An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
- Gunnery.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Campbell to this entry?)
- (archaic) Weapons
Derived terms
- artillery fungus
- artillery mold
- artillery wheel
- nuclear artillery
- rocket artillery
- tube artillery
Translations
References
- artillery at OneLook Dictionary Search
- artillery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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gunnery
English
Etymology
gun +? -ery
Noun
gunnery (usually uncountable, plural gunneries)
- (uncountable) The science of guns and gunfire including aspects of bullet flight and impact.
- (uncountable) The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber.
- (uncountable) The firing of guns
- 1920, Wilfred Owen, "Exposure" in Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, p. 18, [1]
- Northward incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, / Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war.
- 1973, Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Švejk, translated by Cecil Parrott, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 5, p. 438,
- The 12th march company telephoned claiming that someone in the office had heard that they were waiting to do some shooting practice at moveable targets and that they would only leave after gunnery practice under front conditions.
- 1920, Wilfred Owen, "Exposure" in Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, p. 18, [1]
- (countable) A place where guns are tested, or where people are trained in their use
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- artillery
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