weapons

[Weap·on]

A weapon is something used to hurt someone. Soldiers use weapons like guns and even sometimes use "weapons of mass destruction" like bombs. In school, the only weapon you should use is a spitball.

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An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.

Noun
any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon"

Noun
a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons"


n.
An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.

n.
Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.

n.
A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.


Weapon

Weap"on (?; 277), n. [OE. wepen, AS. wpen; akin to OS. wpan, OFries. wpin, wpen, D. wapen, G. waffe, OHG. waffan, w'befan, Icel. v'bepn, Dan. vaaben, Sw. vapen, Goth. wpna, pl.; of uncertain origin. Cf. Wapentake.] 1. An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped.
2. Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. "Woman's weapons, water drops." Shak. 3. (Bot.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. Concealed weapons. See under Concealed. -- Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] Boyle.

An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.

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Usage Examples

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I love Poseidon. His trident - his weapon - is really cool.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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Other Usage Examples

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

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