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Arming

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arm

2  [ahrm]
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–noun
1. Usually, arms. weapons, esp. firearms.
2. arms, Heraldry. the escutcheon, with its divisions, charges, and tinctures, and the other components forming an achievement that symbolizes and is reserved for a person, family, or corporate body; armorial bearings; coat of arms.
–verb (used without object)
3. to enter into a state of hostility or of readiness for war.
–verb (used with object)
4. to equip with weapons: to arm the troops.
5. to activate (a fuze) so that it will explode the charge at the time desired.
6. to cover protectively.
7. to provide with whatever will add strength, force, or security; support; fortify: He was armed with statistics and facts.
8. to equip or prepare for any specific purpose or effective use: to arm a security system; to arm oneself with persuasive arguments.
9. to prepare for action; make fit; ready.
—Idioms
10. bear arms,
a. to carry weapons.
b. to serve as a member of the military or of contending forces: His religious convictions kept him from bearing arms, but he served as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross.
11. take up arms, to prepare for war; go to war: to take up arms against the enemy.
12. under arms, ready for battle; trained and equipped: The number of men under arms is no longer the decisive factor in warfare.
13. up in arms, ready to take action; indignant; outraged: There is no need to get up in arms over such a trifle.
Origin:
1200–50 for v.; 1300–50 for n.; (v.) ME armen < AF, OF armer < L armāre to arm, v. deriv. of arma (pl.) tools, weapons (not akin to arm 1 ); (n.) ME armes (pl.) ≪ L arma, as above

Related forms:
armless, adjective

Synonyms:
8. outfit.

Antonyms:
5. deactivate, disarm.
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arm 2   (ärm)   
n.  

  1. A weapon, especially a firearm: troops bearing arms; ICBMs, bombs, and other nuclear arms.

  2. A branch of a military force: infantry, armor, and other combat arms.

  3. arms

    1. Warfare: a call to arms against the invaders.

    2. Military service: several million volunteers under arms; the profession of arms.

    3. Heraldry Bearings.

    4. Insignia, as of a state, an official, a family, or an organization.

  4. arms

    1. Heraldry Bearings.

    2. Insignia, as of a state, an official, a family, or an organization.

v.   armed, arm·ing, arms

v.   intr.

  1. To supply or equip oneself with weaponry.

  2. To prepare oneself for warfare or conflict.

v.   tr.

  1. To equip with weapons: armed themselves with loaded pistols; arm a missile with a warhead; arm a nation for war.

  2. To equip with what is needed for effective action: tax advisers who were armed with the latest forms.

  3. To provide with something that strengthens or protects: a space reentry vehicle that was armed with a ceramic shield.

  4. To prepare (a weapon) for use or operation, as by releasing a safety device.


[From Middle English armes, weapons, from Old French, pl. of arme, weapon, from Latin arma, weapons; see ar- in Indo-European roots. V., Middle English armen, from Old French armer, from Latin armāre, from arma.]
armed (ärmd) adj., arm'er n.
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Slang Dictionary
arm

  1. n.
    a police officer. (Underworld. See also long arm of the law.) : What'll you do if the arms come in while you're sawing the bars of your cell?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

arm  (1)
"body part," O.E. earm "arm," from P.Gmc. *armaz (cf. O.S., M.Du., Ger. arm, O.N. armr, O.Fris. erm), from PIE base *ar- "fit, join" (cf. Skt. irmah "arm," Armenian armukn "elbow," O.Prus. irmo "arm," Gk. arthron "a joint," L. armus "shoulder"). Arm of the sea was in O.E. Armchair is from 1633; adj. sense in ref. to "criticism of matters in which the critic takes no active part" is from 1886. Arm-twister "powerful persuader" is from 1938. Arm-wrestling is from 1971. Armpit first attested c.1400; fig. sense of "ugly, disgusting place" is U.S. student slang, c.1965.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: arm
Pronunciation: 'ärm
Function: noun
1 a : a human upper limb b : the part of the human upper limb between theshoulder and the wrist also : BRACHIUM
2 a : the forelimb of a vertebrate other than ahuman being b : a limb of an invertebrate animal c : any of the usually two parts of a chromosome lateral to the centromere
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Medical Dictionary

arm 1 (ärm)
n.
An upper limb of the human body, connecting the hand and wrist to the shoulder.

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