Arsenal vs Weaponry - What's the difference?
arsenal | weaponry |
A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
A store or supply of anything.
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Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship
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Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
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As nouns the difference between arsenal and weaponry
is that arsenal is arsenal while weaponry is weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.arsenal
English
(wikipedia arsenal)Noun
(en noun)- He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.
- Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.
Derived terms
* arsenal of democracyweaponry
English
Noun
(-)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}