Military vs Armed - What's the difference?
military | armed | Synonyms |
Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
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(lb) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
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Relating to war.
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Relating to armies or ground forces.
Armed forces.
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(sometimes, in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.
(of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
(obsolete) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
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(chiefly, in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
Coloured in a different tincture from the beast or bird itself.
Military is a synonym of armed.
As adjectives the difference between military and armed
is that military is characteristic of members of the armed forces while armed is (sometimes|in combination) equipped, especially with a weapon or armed can be (chiefly|in combination) having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.As a noun military
is armed forces.As a verb armed is
(arm).military
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Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en-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.}}
See also
* martial * abbreviation: * army/Army * navy/Navy * air force/Air Force * marines/Marines * Merchant Marine * US National Guard * Coast GuardStatistics
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Etymology 1
See the verb .Adjective
(en adjective)- nuclear-armed
- a distemper eminently armed from heaven