"ordnance" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɔːdnəns/ [UK], /ˈoɹdnəns/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ordnance.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-ordnance.wav Forms: ordnances [plural]
enPR: ôrdʹnəns [UK], ôrdʹnəns [US] Etymology: A reduced form of ordinance, which is attested from the late 14th century in the sense of "military equipment or provisions". The sense of "artillery" arises in the early 15th century, the sense "military logistics" in the late 15th century. The shortened form ordnance arises by the 17th century, now often distinguished in writing from the other meanings of ordinance. Also doublet of ordonnance. Etymology templates: {{doublet|en|ordonnance|nocap=1}} doublet of ordonnance Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} ordnance (countable and uncountable, plural ordnances)
  1. Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Military Translations (arms and ammunition): výzbroj [feminine] (Czech), geschut [neuter] (Dutch), ampumatarvikkeet (Finnish), munitions [feminine, plural] (French), у́бојни сре́дства (úbojni srédstva) [neuter, plural] (Macedonian), артиле́риски ору́дија (artilériski orúdija) [neuter, plural] (Macedonian), uzbrojenie [neuter] (Polish), артиллери́йские ору́дия (artilleríjskije orúdija) [neuter, plural] (Russian), pertrecho [masculine] (Spanish), pertrechos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), munición [feminine] (Spanish), municiones [feminine, plural] (Spanish), armas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), mühimmat (Turkish), cephane (Turkish) Translations (military equipment): 軍械 (Chinese Mandarin), 军械 (jūnxiè) (Chinese Mandarin), výzbroj [feminine] (Czech), taisteluväline (Finnish), sotamateriaali (Finnish), sotatarvike (Finnish), Militärmaterial [neuter] (German), Kampfmittel [neuter, plural, singular] (German), 軍用品 (gunyōhin) (alt: ぐんようひん) (Japanese), муни́ција (munícija) [feminine] (Macedonian), uzbrojenie [neuter] (Polish), боеприпа́сы (bojepripásy) [masculine, plural] (Russian), pertrecho [masculine] (Spanish), pertrechos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), mühimmat (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-ordnance-en-noun-~sXIFylQ Disambiguation of Military: 69 31 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 63 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of 'arms and ammunition': 57 43 Disambiguation of 'military equipment': 93 7
  2. Artillery. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Artillery Translations (artillery): артилерия (artilerija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), artilleria [feminine] (Catalan), 大砲 (Chinese Mandarin), 大炮 (dàpào) (Chinese Mandarin), artilérie [feminine] (Czech), tykistö (Finnish), Artillerie [feminine] (German), πυροβολικό (pyrovolikó) [neuter] (Greek), 大砲 (taihō) (alt: たいほう) (Japanese), артиле́рија (artilérija) [feminine] (Macedonian), артилле́рия (artillérija) [feminine] (Russian), artillería [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-ordnance-en-noun-TQRb2qwP Disambiguation of Artillery: 32 68 Disambiguation of 'artillery': 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Ordnance Survey, soft ordnance

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "ipa": "/ˈoɹdnəns/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ˈoɹdɪnəns/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
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      "homophone": "ordinance (some pronunciations)"
    }
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}
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    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "en:Artillery",
    "en:Military"
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    {
      "word": "Ordnance Survey"
    },
    {
      "word": "soft ordnance"
    }
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "order"
    },
    {
      "word": "ordinal"
    },
    {
      "word": "ordinance"
    },
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      "word": "ordinary"
    },
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      "word": "ordinate"
    },
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      "word": "ordination"
    },
    {
      "word": "ordo"
    },
    {
      "word": "coordinate"
    },
    {
      "word": "coordination"
    },
    {
      "word": "foreordination"
    },
    {
      "word": "insubordination"
    },
    {
      "word": "postordination"
    },
    {
      "word": "preordination"
    },
    {
      "word": "reordination"
    },
    {
      "word": "subordinate"
    },
    {
      "word": "subordination"
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    {
      "word": "superordination"
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          "ref": "1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVI., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 438-40",
          "text": "When the Turkes took Constantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I have heard both Bells and Ordnance, but never been so much affected with those, as with these Bells."
        }
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        "Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition."
      ],
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        [
          "Military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "weapons",
          "weapons"
        ],
        [
          "ammunition",
          "ammunition"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 293–294:",
          "text": "From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Artillery."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Artillery",
          "artillery"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "enpr": "ôrdʹnəns",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔːdnəns/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ˈɔːdɪnəns/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "enpr": "ôrdʹnəns",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈoɹdnəns/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ˈoɹdɪnəns/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
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    },
    {
      "homophone": "ordinance (some pronunciations)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "word": "軍械"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jūnxiè",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "word": "军械"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "výzbroj"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "word": "taisteluväline"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "word": "sotamateriaali"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "word": "sotatarvike"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Militärmaterial"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "Kampfmittel"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぐんようひん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gunyōhin",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "word": "軍用品"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "munícija",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "муни́ција"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "uzbrojenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bojepripásy",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "боеприпа́сы"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pertrecho"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "pertrechos"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "military equipment",
      "word": "mühimmat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "výzbroj"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "geschut"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "word": "ampumatarvikkeet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "munitions"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "úbojni srédstva",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "у́бојни сре́дства"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "artilériski orúdija",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "артиле́риски ору́дија"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "uzbrojenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "artilleríjskije orúdija",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "артиллери́йские ору́дия"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pertrecho"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "pertrechos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "munición"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "municiones"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "armas"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "word": "mühimmat"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "arms and ammunition",
      "word": "cephane"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "artilerija",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "артилерия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "artilleria"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "word": "大砲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàpào",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "word": "大炮"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "artilérie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "word": "tykistö"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Artillerie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pyrovolikó",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "πυροβολικό"
    },
    {
      "alt": "たいほう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "taihō",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "word": "大砲"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "artilérija",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "артиле́рија"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "artillérija",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "артилле́рия"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "artillery",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "artillería"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ordnance"
}

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