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Arming vs Armament - What's the difference?

arming | armament |

As nouns the difference between arming and armament

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 armament is a body of forces equipped for war.

As a verb arming

is .

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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    armament

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A body of forces equipped for war.
  • (military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
  • Any equipment for resistance.
  • The process of building up military capacity.