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armada
A large group of warships or boats.
🌱The U.S. Navy hopes to build an electric armada, a new generation of ships driven by electric power. 🌳A Spanish word that originally meant simply "armed," armada is now used in Spanish-speaking nations as the name of their national navies. In English, the word usually has historical overtones. The Great Armada of 1588 was a 120-ship fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in an attempt to invade Elizabethan England; it was defeated when British forces lit eight ships afire and sent them sailing into the Armada's midst, then blocked the passage to the south so that the remaining ships were forced to sail northward around Britain in order to return home, causing dozens more ships to be wrecked in the stormy northern seas. Today we sometimes use the word humorously for fleets of fishing boats, rowboats, or canoes. armistice An agreement to stop fighting a war; a truce.
🌱Ambassadors from three neighboring countries were trying to arrange an armistice between the warring forces. 🌳Just as the solstice is the time of year when the sun （Latin, sol） "stands still," an armistice is an agreement for armies to stop where they are and lay down their arms. The word is associated with the truce that marked the end of World War I on the Western Front, where the Allies had confronted Germany, in 1918. The day of the ceasefire, November 11th （"the eleventh day of the eleventh month"）, was for many years called Armistice Day; today it's known as Veterans Day in the U.S. and as Remembrance Day in Canada and Australia. armory A place where weapons are made or stored.
🌱The great military rifles known as the Springfield 30.06 and the M1 were developed at the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts. 🌳An armory has traditionally been a military storage compound where machine guns, rifles, pistols, ammunition, parts, and accessories are kept. In the U.S., National Guard and Reserve units often use armories as training headquarters in peacetime. Ever since George Washington established the country's first armory in Springfield in 1777, arsenals and armories of the Army Ordnance Corps have had a remarkable history of arms manufacture. disarming Tending to remove any feelings of unfriendliness or distrust.
🌱All of us at the meeting were charmed by the new manager's disarming openness and modesty. 🌳A defeated country is sometimes forced to disarm （give up its weapons）, and research may be aimed at disarming a deadly virus （making it incapable of doing damage）. But the meaning of the adjective disarming isn't quite so physical. If you say your nephew has a disarming smile, you mean that his smile's warmth and genuineness disarm the people he meets of any possible suspicion or criticism and of any verbal weapons they might have used against him.
🌱The U.S. Navy hopes to build an electric armada, a new generation of ships driven by electric power. 🌳A Spanish word that originally meant simply "armed," armada is now used in Spanish-speaking nations as the name of their national navies. In English, the word usually has historical overtones. The Great Armada of 1588 was a 120-ship fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in an attempt to invade Elizabethan England; it was defeated when British forces lit eight ships afire and sent them sailing into the Armada's midst, then blocked the passage to the south so that the remaining ships were forced to sail northward around Britain in order to return home, causing dozens more ships to be wrecked in the stormy northern seas. Today we sometimes use the word humorously for fleets of fishing boats, rowboats, or canoes. armistice An agreement to stop fighting a war; a truce.
🌱Ambassadors from three neighboring countries were trying to arrange an armistice between the warring forces. 🌳Just as the solstice is the time of year when the sun （Latin, sol） "stands still," an armistice is an agreement for armies to stop where they are and lay down their arms. The word is associated with the truce that marked the end of World War I on the Western Front, where the Allies had confronted Germany, in 1918. The day of the ceasefire, November 11th （"the eleventh day of the eleventh month"）, was for many years called Armistice Day; today it's known as Veterans Day in the U.S. and as Remembrance Day in Canada and Australia. armory A place where weapons are made or stored.
🌱The great military rifles known as the Springfield 30.06 and the M1 were developed at the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts. 🌳An armory has traditionally been a military storage compound where machine guns, rifles, pistols, ammunition, parts, and accessories are kept. In the U.S., National Guard and Reserve units often use armories as training headquarters in peacetime. Ever since George Washington established the country's first armory in Springfield in 1777, arsenals and armories of the Army Ordnance Corps have had a remarkable history of arms manufacture. disarming Tending to remove any feelings of unfriendliness or distrust.
🌱All of us at the meeting were charmed by the new manager's disarming openness and modesty. 🌳A defeated country is sometimes forced to disarm （give up its weapons）, and research may be aimed at disarming a deadly virus （making it incapable of doing damage）. But the meaning of the adjective disarming isn't quite so physical. If you say your nephew has a disarming smile, you mean that his smile's warmth and genuineness disarm the people he meets of any possible suspicion or criticism and of any verbal weapons they might have used against him.
ARM comes from the Latin arma, meaning "weapons, tools." The root is seen in such English words as arms (i.e., weapons), armed, and army. It has nothing to do with the limb that starts at your shoulder; the name for that kind of arm comes from the Latin word meaning "shoulder."🌸