ordnance

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ordnance

military weapons as a whole; heavy guns; artillery

Not to be confused with:

ordinance – law, practice, or custom; religious rite

ord·nance

(ôrd′nəns)

1. Military materiel, such as weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and equipment.

2. The branch of an armed force that procures, maintains, and issues weapons, ammunition, and combat vehicles.

3. Cannon; artillery.

[Middle English ordnaunce, variant of ordinaunce, order, military provision; see ordinance.]

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ordnance

(ˈɔːdnəns)

1. (Military) cannon or artillery

2. (Military) military supplies; munitions

3. (Military) the ordnance a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies

[C14: variant of ordinance]

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ord•nance

(ˈɔrd nəns)

n.

1. cannon or artillery.

2. military weapons with their equipment, ammunition, etc.

3. the army branch that deals with ordnance.

[1620–30; syncopated variant of ordinance]

ordnance

Explosives, chemicals, pyrotechnics, and similar stores, e.g., bombs, guns and ammunition, flares, smoke, or napalm.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Noun	1.	ordnance - military supplies ordnance store, munition armament - weaponry used by military or naval force
	2.	ordnance - large but transportable armament artillery, heavy weapon, gun armament - weaponry used by military or naval force cannon - a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels field artillery, field gun - movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops) four-pounder - an artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds gunstock, stock - the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun; "the rifle had been fitted with a special stock" battery - a collection of related things intended for use together; "took a battery of achievement tests"

ordnance

noun weapons, arms, guns, artillery, cannon, firearms, weaponry, big guns, armaments, munitions, materiel, instruments of war a team clearing an area littered with unexploded ordnance

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Translations

Artillerie

ampumatarvikkeetsotamateriaalitykistö

artiglieria sussistenza

ordnance

[ˈɔːdnəns] (Mil)

A. N (= guns) → artillería f; (= supplies) → pertrechos mpl de guerra, material m de guerra

B. CPD Ordnance Corps N → Cuerpo m de Armamento y Material
ordnance factory N → fábrica f de artillería
Ordnance Survey N (Brit) servicio estatal de cartografía
Ordnance Survey map N (Brit) → mapa m del servicio estatal de cartografía

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ordnance

[ˈɔː^rdnəns] n

(= shells) → obus mpl
unexploded ordnance → des obus non explosés

(= unit) → service m du matérielOrdnance Survey map [ˌɔː^rdnənsˈsɜː^rveɪmæp] n (British) → carte f d'État-major

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ordnance

(Mil)

(= artillery) → (Wehr)material nt

(= supply) → Material nt, → Versorgung f; (= corps) → Technische Truppe; (in times of war) → Nachschub m

ordnance

ordnance factory

n → Munitionsfabrik f

ordnance map

(Brit) ? Ordnance Survey map

(US Mil) → Generalstabskarte f

Ordnance Survey

n (Brit) → ˜ Landesvermessungsamt nt

Ordnance Survey map

n (Brit) → amtliche topografische Karte (form), → Messtischblatt nt

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ordnance

[ˈɔːdnəns] (Mil) n (guns) → artiglieria; (supplies) → materiale m militare
the ordnance (department) → il reparto di sussistenza

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A white church could be seen through the mist, and here and there the roofs of huts in Borodino as well as dense masses of soldiers, or green ammunition chests and ordnance. And all this moved, or seemed to move, as the smoke and mist spread out over the whole space.

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Three great safes were ranged along one side of the wall, piles of newspapers and maps were strewn all over a long table, and a huge Ordnance map of the French and Belgian Frontiers stood upon an easel.

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It was all fitted with lockers from top to bottom, so as to stow away the officers' belongings and a part of the ship's stores; there was a second store-room underneath, which you entered by a hatchway in the middle of the deck; indeed, all the best of the meat and drink and the whole of the powder were collected in this place; and all the firearms, except the two pieces of brass ordnance, were set in a rack in the aftermost wall of the round-house.

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Had I possessed the remotest idea of the sensation this piece of ordnance was destined to produce, I should certainly have taken out a patent for the invention.

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I had previously informed him of his mistake about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau, and had also informed the Ordnance Depart of the German government of the same error in the imperial maps.

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The piece of ordnance referred to, was mounted in a separate fortress, constructed of lattice-work.

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Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like; all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposition of the people, be stout and warlike.

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After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day.

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"`Here lieth the body of Albert Crawford, Esq.,'" read Anne from a worn, gray slab, "`for many years Keeper of His Majesty's Ordnance at Kingsport.

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But now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive What Rome contains for to delight thine eyes, Know that this city stands upon seven hills That underprop the groundwork of the same: Just through the midst runs flowing Tiber's stream, With winding banks that cut it in two parts; Over the which two stately bridges lean, That make safe passage to each part of Rome: Upon the bridge call'd Ponte Angelo Erected is a castle passing strong, Where thou shalt see such store of ordnance, As that the double cannons, forg'd of brass, Do match the number of the days contain'd Within the compass of one complete year; Beside the gates, and high pyramides, That Julius Caesar brought from Africa.

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There is always a breeze in the "camp," as it is called; and here it lies, just as the Romans left it, except that cairn on the east side, left by her Majesty's corps of sappers and miners the other day, when they and the engineer officer had finished their sojourn there, and their surveys for the ordnance map of Berkshire.

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Bert liked maps, and he spent some time in trying to find one of France or the Channel; but they were all British ordnance maps of English counties.