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How to pronounce artillery in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms artillery unit
Type of army unit
Has types battery
Type Words
Synonyms gun, heavy weapon, ordnance
Type of armament
Has types field artillery, four-pounder, field gun, cannon
Type Words
Synonyms weapon
Type of suasion, persuasion

Examples of artillery

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The Defense Ministry said the artillery drills were to be staged sometime today.
From the thenewstribune.com
Both look brilliant, both are available with serious artillery under the bonnet.
From the mirror.co.uk
Battle re-enactments and artillery demonstrations will be held at Carnegie Park.
From the post-gazette.com
Plainsmen will never defeat such people in hill battles without field artillery.
From the theatlantic.com
Iraqi officials said the tanks were packed with fertilizer and artillery shells.
From the washingtonpost.com
Nobody can fail to notice bases, bunkers, artillery emplacements and tank traps.
From the washingtontimes.com
Turkish artillery units sporadically shelled the same areas, the statement said.
From the signonsandiego.com
Had nightingales sung back then over the whine of bullets and thud of artillery?
From the independent.co.uk
The 7th Parachute Battalion suffered casualties from air burst artillery shells.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Large but transportable armament
  • An army unit that uses big guns
  • Weapon: a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons"
  • Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons. ...
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  • Artillery is the generic name for either early two- or three-player (usually turn-based) computer games involving tanks fighting each other in combat or similar derivative games. ...
  • Large cannon like weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person; A unit of the army, that uses such weapons; Gunnery
  • Gold buttons, dark blue trousers, with yellow piping (officers, double yellow stripe). Officers' tunics have black yellowedged collars and cuffs, men's a black yellow-edged collar patch, and yellow edgings on the collars, shoulder-straps and cuff. ...
  • 1 Sam. 20:40, (Heb. keli, meaning "apparatus;" here meaning collectively any missile weapons, as arrows and lances. In Revised Version, "weapons"). This word is derived from the Latin artillaria = equipment of war.