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Arming vs Aiming - What's the difference?

arming | aiming |

As verbs the difference between arming and aiming

is that arming is while aiming is .

As nouns the difference between arming and aiming

is that arming is (nautical) a piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea while aiming is the act of one who aims.

arming

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
    • (Totten)
  • The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict
  • * Macaulay
    • The arming was now universal.
  • (nautical, chiefly, in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.

    • References

    * FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

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    aiming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who aims.
  • * 1867 , William Hickman Smith Aubrey, The National and Domestic History of England
    • The aimings after the impossible, represented by the Uniformity Act of 1549, had failed