Definition of arms in English:

arms

plural noun ɑːmzɑrmz

1Weapons; armaments.
武器；军械
arms and ammunition
武器和弹药。
as modifier arms exports
Example sentencesExamples
- Now after the election we need a big campaign to stop any new expenditure on nuclear arms.
- Shipments of gold, arms and food had been sent to the mountain region on a regular basis.
- What kind of war was the French army expecting and how was it intending to use its arms?
- The leaders of both North and South Korea wished to unite the country by force of arms.
- Eight men in total turned their arms and Kay, the last of them, filed the best return.
Synonyms
weapons (of war), weaponry, firearms, guns, ordnance, cannon, artillery, armaments, munitions, instruments of war, war machines, military supplies, materiel
2Distinctive emblems or devices originally borne on shields in battle and now forming the heraldic insignia of families, corporations, or countries.
（原指盾牌上的）标志（或纹章图案）；（家族或企业等作为标志的）盾形纹章，盾徽；国徽。参见COAT OF ARMS
Example sentencesExamples
- Other princes and princesses fly a standard with the royal arms in an ermine border.
Synonyms
crest, emblem, heraldic device, coat of arms, armorial bearing, insignia, escutcheon, shield, heraldry, blazonry

Phrases

bear arms

1Possess or carry a weapon.
the right to bear arms
Example sentencesExamples
- She enforced a rule that soldiers were not allowed to enter the house bearing arms of any kind.
- Only law officers could legally bear arms.
- With freedom to bear arms comes responsibility.
- They're not actually covered by any legal framework that allows them to both bear arms and particularly to return fire.
- A series of orders were passed which compelled them to sell their assets, pay all their outstanding debts immediately and, most ominously, barred them from bearing arms.
- The athletes will be gearing up in their shooting clothing and bearing arms if they're entering the clay target events.
- A wide majority of American voters agree that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individuals to keep and bear arms.
- Back then only noblemen were allowed to bear arms.
- The nature and scope of the right to bear arms will remain contentious in the United States.
- He called for millions of gun-owners to "stand and fight" against attempts to regulate their right to bear arms.
1. 1.1Participate in military operations as a member of the armed forces.
  those who had a conscientious objection to bearing arms were freed from military service
  Example sentencesExamples
  All those capable of bearing arms—both young boys and old men—had been mustered for the decisive battle.
  It is still treason to bear arms for the Queen's enemies whether or not you have fired those arms.
  At the higher, abstract level, there is no persuasive evidence that the country has abandoned the ideal that citizens should bear arms in their country's defense.
  He could only plea with them to distinguish between combatants and those innocent civilians who do not bear arms.
  They have never from choice borne arms nor sought distinction in military prowess.
  He can lawfully perform service in the hospitals of the Army in lieu of bearing arms.
  After two days of fighting only ninety could still bear arms.
  Whenever the government has employed compulsory military training or service, it has been confronted by those who, on principle, refuse to bear arms.
  His father broke peace with us and bore arms against us.
  In the chaos of field conditions, protection for of those not bearing arms is often ill-defined.

a call to arms

A call to defend or make ready for confrontation.
战斗号令
it is understood as a call to arms to defend against a takeover
Example sentencesExamples
- Incitement to violence should be treated as an offence, irrespective of whether the incitement involves calls to arms against people with different views or with a different amount of melanin in their skins.
- It was a tragic end to what started as a call to arms to defend the country's sovereignty, to perform a state duty.
- The right is sounding the call to arms, while the left, as always, is offering excuses at best, and at worst, apologies.
- Bush continued his own regime of pressure to win over a still unsure American public when his routine weekly radio message was in effect turned into a call to arms.
- Predictably, she closes with the mandatory anti-establishment requirement, the desperate call to arms.
- Only 130 of the 500 members of his battalion answered the call to arms.
- When she wrote her book, she set out to document something, and yet it has been received as a call to arms by those who were ready for one.
- Patriotism is a call to arms to defend yourself against someone else because they do not think like you.
- These were the first soldiers ever to have been enlisted at the call to arms and by a United States Government.
- Instead it seems to act more as the fiery torch that keeps the impressionable, who only cheer for the good guys, ready for the call to arms.
- There has not been bloodshed, not been a mass call to arms, among the Shia and Kurdish groups.
- So the call to arms that he delivered has - for the moment - failed and we should recognise that fact before granting him a propaganda victory.
- Sharon Pollock's latest play, The Making of Warriors sounds like it should be about war, but it's a call to arms of a different sort.
- Mason raises points that deserve to be calls to arms for the Irish software community.
- Wiltshire's military might is ready, willing and more than able to answer any call to arms if there is a war with Iraq.
- They have been roused to action following a passionate call to arms by Colonel of the Regiment Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter.
- We begin tonight with a new call to arms by President Bush on the global war on terrorists and radical Islamists.
- The enemy wants to make Iraqis afraid to join security forces, but every week more and more Iraqis answer the call to arms.
- Most of the West's ‘proscribed terrorist organisations’ maintain web pages that let them bypass the media and publish press releases, galleries of ‘martyrs’ and calls to arms, often in English.
- It is true the Constitution contains no revolutionary calls to arms.

in arms

Armed; prepared to fight.
武装的；准备战斗的

take up arms

Begin fighting.
放下武器，停止战斗
local people took up arms to fight a dam proposed by the government
Example sentencesExamples
- Only socialism has the power to unite the American people who despise war and oppression and who first took up arms in the struggle for freedom and equality over two centuries ago.
- Many aided the Rangers, supplying carts and food, and often taking up arms to join in the fight against the Japanese.
- The Conventions also establish the criteria that must be met in order to qualify as a lawful combatant taking up arms for the state.
- Their inhabitants fled after similar attacks, according to rebels in the region who took up arms against the Arab government in Khartoum in February last year.
- ‘Some people say they would be happy to take up arms and fight,’ one envoy said.
- The latest war in Sudan erupted when southern rebels took up arms against the predominantly Arab and Muslim northern government in a bid to obtain greater autonomy for the largely animist and Christian south.
- Walsh added that it was an affront to all those who took up arms during the War of Independence and died in the fight to remove the British from this country.
- Pointing to one of our articles, he said, ‘Young people are taking up arms and going to fight because you write this kind of stuff.’
- Certainly, Colombo residents Kumudini Samuel and Chandragupta Thenuwara are more likely to join an anti-war protest than to take up arms.
- Rebels took up arms against Taylor in 1999, however, battling their way to the capital in June and forcing the cornered president into exile in Nigeria two months later.
- I took up arms and fought the corrupt military and government.
- The government estimates some 1 million Liberians have been displaced by the war, which began in 1999 when rebels took up arms against Taylor.
- What it means is that we do not take up arms to attack others.
- I would like to dedicate this day to the memory of a young woman, barely in her twenties, who took up arms in 1978 to fight for the liberation of Palestine.
- To many Britons, including government politicians, they are traitors, willing to take up arms to fight the armed forces of the country they grew up in.
- Some of the others managed to take up arms and a battle began between those who only hours earlier had been allies.
- As she observed, ‘the purpose of detention is to prevent captured individuals from returning to the field of battle and taking up arms once again.’
- He took up arms with the Earl of Mar, but after the battle of Sheriffmuir he was forced to flee the country.
- Likewise, when the US attempted to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr, it enraged the ghetto Shiite youth, many of whom took up arms against the US forces for the first time.
- The war is southern Sudan erupted in 1983 when black African rebels took up arms to fight Khartoum-based Islamic governments.
Synonyms
fight, do battle, give battle, wage war, go to war, make war

under arms

Equipped and ready for war or battle.
处于战备状态的
the country had up to one million men under arms
Example sentencesExamples
- Though Nguyen Van Thieu still had over a million men under arms, his forces collapsed in panic, with soldiers trying desperately to reach any port to escape.
- China seems a possibility, but one has to wonder if the United States would ever risk placing a major force ashore in a country as vast as China and one with over a billion people, some three million of whom are under arms.
- The ministry, with about 1 million men under arms, is the country's largest armed forces agency.
- In general, the French tended to be more impatient for some kind of action than the British because with 2.7 million Frenchmen under arms they feared that total inactivity would demoralize the population.
- Europe keeps 2.3 million troops under arms - many of them poorly trained conscripts.
- The Butah Brigades have an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 men under arms.
- Although the country has a defence budget broadly equivalent to that of Switzerland, there are 1.35 million people under arms.
- Much of Europe's defense spending goes to keeping large numbers of semi-skilled soldiers under arms, rather than providing modern equipment or high-tech training.
- They have more men and women under arms than we have in the police service.
- Even so, by the outbreak of war in 1939 Germany had more than 4.5 million men under arms, including those in training.
- When you have a million and a half men under arms, you have a tinder box.
- The active duty Israeli Defense Force is fairly small, with only about 150,000 men and women under arms.
- You do not have that problem in the army, because they understand that they are men under arms, observing rank and grade.
- Even though they have not been required to reduce their conventional forces, the destruction of weapons and economic difficulties have led to a substantial reduction of men under arms.
- He can fairly claim that at the time of capture he was under arms as a foreign volunteer for a sovereign government which he supported.
- Though the war ended almost 30 years ago, Vietnam still has nearly half a million men under arms.
- If you are a state maintaining a million men under arms, in all sorts of places in the world, doing principally peacekeeping functions, you have to ask yourself to what degree this imposes greater cost on our missions.
- The country would have a full draft, with probably at least two million under arms.
- How many men do they still have under arms, and what are they doing?
- Ninety members of the tribe are currently under arms, with 30 deployed in Iraq.

up in arms

Protesting vigorously about something.
强力反对
teachers are up in arms about new school tests
老师们强力反对新的学校测试。
Example sentencesExamples
- Now, the Labour Party is up in arms against a Thatcher state funeral.
- Punters who had backed the horse were, with good reason, up in arms.
- Angry residents are up in arms after railway engineering works caused sleepless nights.
- Portlaoise town councillors are up in arms over what they perceive as a diminution of the powers of the town council.
- The residents of Castledermot continue to be up in arms over plans to turn an area of the village known as The Green into a car park.
- This is why many are up in arms to defend their interests, with others willing to go all the way in their call for reform and change.
- Angry farmers are up in arms after plans to build a new livestock market were thrown out.
- Parents and teachers are up in arms over whether a peace banner is political, and whether peace should be promoted in schools.
- Residents and parents who reside on the Mountain Road are up in arms over the dangers posed by speeding traffic.
- Angry road hauliers in Laois are up in arms about the costs associated with their businesses.
- Residents in Willington are up in arms over a building development plan which, they say, will triple the size of the village.
- Angry residents are up in arms following new proposals to build 14 flats on a former petrol station site in Rawdon.
- Activists are up in arms over a Bush proposal to allow nuclear reactors in spacecraft.
- Why aren't the liberal classes up in arms about Zimbabwe and Darfur?
- Angry residents are up in arms over a proposal to site a giant mobile phone mast near their homes.
- People are up in arms about Amazon being awarded a patent for their affiliates program.
- At the other extreme, Manchester United fans are up in arms at the idea of Malcolm Glazer buying their club and running it as a business.
- Traders in Havefordwest's top of town are up in arms at the lack of notice given to them over the closure of Market Street to traffic.
- A lot of Christians are up in arms about this, and for once I agree with them, at least in part.
- The greens are up in arms against allowing construction so close to lakes.
Synonyms
irate, annoyed, cross, vexed, irritated, exasperated, indignant, aggrieved, irked, piqued, displeased, provoked, galled, resentful

Origin

Middle English: from Old French armes, from Latin arma.

Definition of arms in US English:

arms

plural nounɑrmzärmz

1Weapons and ammunition; armaments.
武器；军械
as modifier arms exports
they were subjugated by force of arms
Example sentencesExamples
- What kind of war was the French army expecting and how was it intending to use its arms?
- Shipments of gold, arms and food had been sent to the mountain region on a regular basis.
- The leaders of both North and South Korea wished to unite the country by force of arms.
- Now after the election we need a big campaign to stop any new expenditure on nuclear arms.
- Eight men in total turned their arms and Kay, the last of them, filed the best return.
Synonyms
weapons, weapons of war, weaponry, firearms, guns, ordnance, cannon, artillery, armaments, munitions, instruments of war, war machines, military supplies, materiel
2Distinctive emblems or devices originally borne on shields in battle and now forming the heraldic insignia of families, corporations, or countries.
（原指盾牌上的）标志（或纹章图案）；（家族或企业等作为标志的）盾形纹章，盾徽；国徽。参见COAT OF ARMS
See also coat of arms
Example sentencesExamples
- Other princes and princesses fly a standard with the royal arms in an ermine border.
Synonyms
crest, emblem, heraldic device, coat of arms, armorial bearing, insignia, escutcheon, shield, heraldry, blazonry

Phrases

a call to arms

A call to prepare for confrontation.
战斗号令
a call to arms to defend against a takeover
Example sentencesExamples
- Most of the West's ‘proscribed terrorist organisations’ maintain web pages that let them bypass the media and publish press releases, galleries of ‘martyrs’ and calls to arms, often in English.
- So the call to arms that he delivered has - for the moment - failed and we should recognise that fact before granting him a propaganda victory.
- Bush continued his own regime of pressure to win over a still unsure American public when his routine weekly radio message was in effect turned into a call to arms.
- The enemy wants to make Iraqis afraid to join security forces, but every week more and more Iraqis answer the call to arms.
- Incitement to violence should be treated as an offence, irrespective of whether the incitement involves calls to arms against people with different views or with a different amount of melanin in their skins.
- When she wrote her book, she set out to document something, and yet it has been received as a call to arms by those who were ready for one.
- Instead it seems to act more as the fiery torch that keeps the impressionable, who only cheer for the good guys, ready for the call to arms.
- Only 130 of the 500 members of his battalion answered the call to arms.
- Wiltshire's military might is ready, willing and more than able to answer any call to arms if there is a war with Iraq.
- There has not been bloodshed, not been a mass call to arms, among the Shia and Kurdish groups.
- Predictably, she closes with the mandatory anti-establishment requirement, the desperate call to arms.
- They have been roused to action following a passionate call to arms by Colonel of the Regiment Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter.
- The right is sounding the call to arms, while the left, as always, is offering excuses at best, and at worst, apologies.
- These were the first soldiers ever to have been enlisted at the call to arms and by a United States Government.
- We begin tonight with a new call to arms by President Bush on the global war on terrorists and radical Islamists.
- It was a tragic end to what started as a call to arms to defend the country's sovereignty, to perform a state duty.
- It is true the Constitution contains no revolutionary calls to arms.
- Patriotism is a call to arms to defend yourself against someone else because they do not think like you.
- Mason raises points that deserve to be calls to arms for the Irish software community.
- Sharon Pollock's latest play, The Making of Warriors sounds like it should be about war, but it's a call to arms of a different sort.

take up arms

Begin fighting.
放下武器，停止战斗
Example sentencesExamples
- Certainly, Colombo residents Kumudini Samuel and Chandragupta Thenuwara are more likely to join an anti-war protest than to take up arms.
- Only socialism has the power to unite the American people who despise war and oppression and who first took up arms in the struggle for freedom and equality over two centuries ago.
- As she observed, ‘the purpose of detention is to prevent captured individuals from returning to the field of battle and taking up arms once again.’
- The Conventions also establish the criteria that must be met in order to qualify as a lawful combatant taking up arms for the state.
- To many Britons, including government politicians, they are traitors, willing to take up arms to fight the armed forces of the country they grew up in.
- Pointing to one of our articles, he said, ‘Young people are taking up arms and going to fight because you write this kind of stuff.’
- Many aided the Rangers, supplying carts and food, and often taking up arms to join in the fight against the Japanese.
- He took up arms with the Earl of Mar, but after the battle of Sheriffmuir he was forced to flee the country.
- The government estimates some 1 million Liberians have been displaced by the war, which began in 1999 when rebels took up arms against Taylor.
- Walsh added that it was an affront to all those who took up arms during the War of Independence and died in the fight to remove the British from this country.
- I would like to dedicate this day to the memory of a young woman, barely in her twenties, who took up arms in 1978 to fight for the liberation of Palestine.
- Their inhabitants fled after similar attacks, according to rebels in the region who took up arms against the Arab government in Khartoum in February last year.
- The latest war in Sudan erupted when southern rebels took up arms against the predominantly Arab and Muslim northern government in a bid to obtain greater autonomy for the largely animist and Christian south.
- Rebels took up arms against Taylor in 1999, however, battling their way to the capital in June and forcing the cornered president into exile in Nigeria two months later.
- I took up arms and fought the corrupt military and government.
- Likewise, when the US attempted to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr, it enraged the ghetto Shiite youth, many of whom took up arms against the US forces for the first time.
- What it means is that we do not take up arms to attack others.
- The war is southern Sudan erupted in 1983 when black African rebels took up arms to fight Khartoum-based Islamic governments.
- ‘Some people say they would be happy to take up arms and fight,’ one envoy said.
- Some of the others managed to take up arms and a battle began between those who only hours earlier had been allies.
Synonyms
fight, do battle, give battle, wage war, go to war, make war

under arms

Equipped and ready for war or battle.
处于战备状态的
the Empire now had half a million men under arms
Example sentencesExamples
- You do not have that problem in the army, because they understand that they are men under arms, observing rank and grade.
- Though the war ended almost 30 years ago, Vietnam still has nearly half a million men under arms.
- Much of Europe's defense spending goes to keeping large numbers of semi-skilled soldiers under arms, rather than providing modern equipment or high-tech training.
- The Butah Brigades have an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 men under arms.
- Even though they have not been required to reduce their conventional forces, the destruction of weapons and economic difficulties have led to a substantial reduction of men under arms.
- If you are a state maintaining a million men under arms, in all sorts of places in the world, doing principally peacekeeping functions, you have to ask yourself to what degree this imposes greater cost on our missions.
- When you have a million and a half men under arms, you have a tinder box.
- Europe keeps 2.3 million troops under arms - many of them poorly trained conscripts.
- They have more men and women under arms than we have in the police service.
- Although the country has a defence budget broadly equivalent to that of Switzerland, there are 1.35 million people under arms.
- The country would have a full draft, with probably at least two million under arms.
- Ninety members of the tribe are currently under arms, with 30 deployed in Iraq.
- In general, the French tended to be more impatient for some kind of action than the British because with 2.7 million Frenchmen under arms they feared that total inactivity would demoralize the population.
- Though Nguyen Van Thieu still had over a million men under arms, his forces collapsed in panic, with soldiers trying desperately to reach any port to escape.
- China seems a possibility, but one has to wonder if the United States would ever risk placing a major force ashore in a country as vast as China and one with over a billion people, some three million of whom are under arms.
- The ministry, with about 1 million men under arms, is the country's largest armed forces agency.
- How many men do they still have under arms, and what are they doing?
- The active duty Israeli Defense Force is fairly small, with only about 150,000 men and women under arms.
- Even so, by the outbreak of war in 1939 Germany had more than 4.5 million men under arms, including those in training.
- He can fairly claim that at the time of capture he was under arms as a foreign volunteer for a sovereign government which he supported.

up in arms

Protesting vigorously about something.
强力反对
teachers are up in arms about new school tests
老师们强力反对新的学校测试。
Example sentencesExamples
- Punters who had backed the horse were, with good reason, up in arms.
- The greens are up in arms against allowing construction so close to lakes.
- Angry residents are up in arms following new proposals to build 14 flats on a former petrol station site in Rawdon.
- Angry road hauliers in Laois are up in arms about the costs associated with their businesses.
- Residents in Willington are up in arms over a building development plan which, they say, will triple the size of the village.
- Now, the Labour Party is up in arms against a Thatcher state funeral.
- Portlaoise town councillors are up in arms over what they perceive as a diminution of the powers of the town council.
- At the other extreme, Manchester United fans are up in arms at the idea of Malcolm Glazer buying their club and running it as a business.
- This is why many are up in arms to defend their interests, with others willing to go all the way in their call for reform and change.
- The residents of Castledermot continue to be up in arms over plans to turn an area of the village known as The Green into a car park.
- Parents and teachers are up in arms over whether a peace banner is political, and whether peace should be promoted in schools.
- A lot of Christians are up in arms about this, and for once I agree with them, at least in part.
- Angry residents are up in arms after railway engineering works caused sleepless nights.
- Activists are up in arms over a Bush proposal to allow nuclear reactors in spacecraft.
- Residents and parents who reside on the Mountain Road are up in arms over the dangers posed by speeding traffic.
- Angry farmers are up in arms after plans to build a new livestock market were thrown out.
- Angry residents are up in arms over a proposal to site a giant mobile phone mast near their homes.
- Traders in Havefordwest's top of town are up in arms at the lack of notice given to them over the closure of Market Street to traffic.
- Why aren't the liberal classes up in arms about Zimbabwe and Darfur?
- People are up in arms about Amazon being awarded a patent for their affiliates program.
Synonyms
irate, annoyed, cross, vexed, irritated, exasperated, indignant, aggrieved, irked, piqued, displeased, provoked, galled, resentful

Origin

Middle English: from Old French armes, from Latin arma.

单词	arms
释义	Definition of arms in English: arms plural noun ɑːmzɑrmz 1Weapons; armaments. 武器；军械 arms and ammunition 武器和弹药。 as modifier arms exports Example sentencesExamples Now after the election we need a big campaign to stop any new expenditure on nuclear arms. Shipments of gold, arms and food had been sent to the mountain region on a regular basis. What kind of war was the French army expecting and how was it intending to use its arms? The leaders of both North and South Korea wished to unite the country by force of arms. Eight men in total turned their arms and Kay, the last of them, filed the best return. Synonyms weapons (of war), weaponry, firearms, guns, ordnance, cannon, artillery, armaments, munitions, instruments of war, war machines, military supplies, materiel 2Distinctive emblems or devices originally borne on shields in battle and now forming the heraldic insignia of families, corporations, or countries. （原指盾牌上的）标志（或纹章图案）；（家族或企业等作为标志的）盾形纹章，盾徽；国徽。参见COAT OF ARMS Example sentencesExamples Other princes and princesses fly a standard with the royal arms in an ermine border. Synonyms crest, emblem, heraldic device, coat of arms, armorial bearing, insignia, escutcheon, shield, heraldry, blazonry Phrases bear arms 1Possess or carry a weapon. the right to bear arms Example sentencesExamples She enforced a rule that soldiers were not allowed to enter the house bearing arms of any kind. Only law officers could legally bear arms. With freedom to bear arms comes responsibility. They're not actually covered by any legal framework that allows them to both bear arms and particularly to return fire. A series of orders were passed which compelled them to sell their assets, pay all their outstanding debts immediately and, most ominously, barred them from bearing arms. The athletes will be gearing up in their shooting clothing and bearing arms if they're entering the clay target events. A wide majority of American voters agree that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Back then only noblemen were allowed to bear arms. The nature and scope of the right to bear arms will remain contentious in the United States. He called for millions of gun-owners to "stand and fight" against attempts to regulate their right to bear arms. 1.1Participate in military operations as a member of the armed forces. those who had a conscientious objection to bearing arms were freed from military service Example sentencesExamples All those capable of bearing arms—both young boys and old men—had been mustered for the decisive battle. It is still treason to bear arms for the Queen's enemies whether or not you have fired those arms. At the higher, abstract level, there is no persuasive evidence that the country has abandoned the ideal that citizens should bear arms in their country's defense. He could only plea with them to distinguish between combatants and those innocent civilians who do not bear arms. They have never from choice borne arms nor sought distinction in military prowess. He can lawfully perform service in the hospitals of the Army in lieu of bearing arms. After two days of fighting only ninety could still bear arms. Whenever the government has employed compulsory military training or service, it has been confronted by those who, on principle, refuse to bear arms. His father broke peace with us and bore arms against us. In the chaos of field conditions, protection for of those not bearing arms is often ill-defined. a call to arms A call to defend or make ready for confrontation. 战斗号令 it is understood as a call to arms to defend against a takeover Example sentencesExamples Incitement to violence should be treated as an offence, irrespective of whether the incitement involves calls to arms against people with different views or with a different amount of melanin in their skins. It was a tragic end to what started as a call to arms to defend the country's sovereignty, to perform a state duty. The right is sounding the call to arms, while the left, as always, is offering excuses at best, and at worst, apologies. Bush continued his own regime of pressure to win over a still unsure American public when his routine weekly radio message was in effect turned into a call to arms. Predictably, she closes with the mandatory anti-establishment requirement, the desperate call to arms. Only 130 of the 500 members of his battalion answered the call to arms. When she wrote her book, she set out to document something, and yet it has been received as a call to arms by those who were ready for one. Patriotism is a call to arms to defend yourself against someone else because they do not think like you. These were the first soldiers ever to have been enlisted at the call to arms and by a United States Government. Instead it seems to act more as the fiery torch that keeps the impressionable, who only cheer for the good guys, ready for the call to arms. There has not been bloodshed, not been a mass call to arms, among the Shia and Kurdish groups. So the call to arms that he delivered has - for the moment - failed and we should recognise that fact before granting him a propaganda victory. Sharon Pollock's latest play, The Making of Warriors sounds like it should be about war, but it's a call to arms of a different sort. Mason raises points that deserve to be calls to arms for the Irish software community. Wiltshire's military might is ready, willing and more than able to answer any call to arms if there is a war with Iraq. They have been roused to action following a passionate call to arms by Colonel of the Regiment Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter. We begin tonight with a new call to arms by President Bush on the global war on terrorists and radical Islamists. The enemy wants to make Iraqis afraid to join security forces, but every week more and more Iraqis answer the call to arms. Most of the West's ‘proscribed terrorist organisations’ maintain web pages that let them bypass the media and publish press releases, galleries of ‘martyrs’ and calls to arms, often in English. It is true the Constitution contains no revolutionary calls to arms. in arms Armed; prepared to fight. 武装的；准备战斗的 take up arms Begin fighting. 放下武器，停止战斗 local people took up arms to fight a dam proposed by the government Example sentencesExamples Only socialism has the power to unite the American people who despise war and oppression and who first took up arms in the struggle for freedom and equality over two centuries ago. Many aided the Rangers, supplying carts and food, and often taking up arms to join in the fight against the Japanese. The Conventions also establish the criteria that must be met in order to qualify as a lawful combatant taking up arms for the state. Their inhabitants fled after similar attacks, according to rebels in the region who took up arms against the Arab government in Khartoum in February last year. ‘Some people say they would be happy to take up arms and fight,’ one envoy said. The latest war in Sudan erupted when southern rebels took up arms against the predominantly Arab and Muslim northern government in a bid to obtain greater autonomy for the largely animist and Christian south. Walsh added that it was an affront to all those who took up arms during the War of Independence and died in the fight to remove the British from this country. Pointing to one of our articles, he said, ‘Young people are taking up arms and going to fight because you write this kind of stuff.’ Certainly, Colombo residents Kumudini Samuel and Chandragupta Thenuwara are more likely to join an anti-war protest than to take up arms. Rebels took up arms against Taylor in 1999, however, battling their way to the capital in June and forcing the cornered president into exile in Nigeria two months later. I took up arms and fought the corrupt military and government. The government estimates some 1 million Liberians have been displaced by the war, which began in 1999 when rebels took up arms against Taylor. What it means is that we do not take up arms to attack others. I would like to dedicate this day to the memory of a young woman, barely in her twenties, who took up arms in 1978 to fight for the liberation of Palestine. To many Britons, including government politicians, they are traitors, willing to take up arms to fight the armed forces of the country they grew up in. Some of the others managed to take up arms and a battle began between those who only hours earlier had been allies. As she observed, ‘the purpose of detention is to prevent captured individuals from returning to the field of battle and taking up arms once again.’ He took up arms with the Earl of Mar, but after the battle of Sheriffmuir he was forced to flee the country. Likewise, when the US attempted to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr, it enraged the ghetto Shiite youth, many of whom took up arms against the US forces for the first time. The war is southern Sudan erupted in 1983 when black African rebels took up arms to fight Khartoum-based Islamic governments. Synonyms fight, do battle, give battle, wage war, go to war, make war under arms Equipped and ready for war or battle. 处于战备状态的 the country had up to one million men under arms Example sentencesExamples Though Nguyen Van Thieu still had over a million men under arms, his forces collapsed in panic, with soldiers trying desperately to reach any port to escape. China seems a possibility, but one has to wonder if the United States would ever risk placing a major force ashore in a country as vast as China and one with over a billion people, some three million of whom are under arms. The ministry, with about 1 million men under arms, is the country's largest armed forces agency. In general, the French tended to be more impatient for some kind of action than the British because with 2.7 million Frenchmen under arms they feared that total inactivity would demoralize the population. Europe keeps 2.3 million troops under arms - many of them poorly trained conscripts. The Butah Brigades have an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 men under arms. Although the country has a defence budget broadly equivalent to that of Switzerland, there are 1.35 million people under arms. Much of Europe's defense spending goes to keeping large numbers of semi-skilled soldiers under arms, rather than providing modern equipment or high-tech training. They have more men and women under arms than we have in the police service. Even so, by the outbreak of war in 1939 Germany had more than 4.5 million men under arms, including those in training. When you have a million and a half men under arms, you have a tinder box. The active duty Israeli Defense Force is fairly small, with only about 150,000 men and women under arms. You do not have that problem in the army, because they understand that they are men under arms, observing rank and grade. Even though they have not been required to reduce their conventional forces, the destruction of weapons and economic difficulties have led to a substantial reduction of men under arms. He can fairly claim that at the time of capture he was under arms as a foreign volunteer for a sovereign government which he supported. Though the war ended almost 30 years ago, Vietnam still has nearly half a million men under arms. If you are a state maintaining a million men under arms, in all sorts of places in the world, doing principally peacekeeping functions, you have to ask yourself to what degree this imposes greater cost on our missions. The country would have a full draft, with probably at least two million under arms. How many men do they still have under arms, and what are they doing? Ninety members of the tribe are currently under arms, with 30 deployed in Iraq. up in arms Protesting vigorously about something. 强力反对 teachers are up in arms about new school tests 老师们强力反对新的学校测试。 Example sentencesExamples Now, the Labour Party is up in arms against a Thatcher state funeral. Punters who had backed the horse were, with good reason, up in arms. Angry residents are up in arms after railway engineering works caused sleepless nights. Portlaoise town councillors are up in arms over what they perceive as a diminution of the powers of the town council. The residents of Castledermot continue to be up in arms over plans to turn an area of the village known as The Green into a car park. This is why many are up in arms to defend their interests, with others willing to go all the way in their call for reform and change. Angry farmers are up in arms after plans to build a new livestock market were thrown out. Parents and teachers are up in arms over whether a peace banner is political, and whether peace should be promoted in schools. Residents and parents who reside on the Mountain Road are up in arms over the dangers posed by speeding traffic. Angry road hauliers in Laois are up in arms about the costs associated with their businesses. Residents in Willington are up in arms over a building development plan which, they say, will triple the size of the village. Angry residents are up in arms following new proposals to build 14 flats on a former petrol station site in Rawdon. Activists are up in arms over a Bush proposal to allow nuclear reactors in spacecraft. Why aren't the liberal classes up in arms about Zimbabwe and Darfur? Angry residents are up in arms over a proposal to site a giant mobile phone mast near their homes. People are up in arms about Amazon being awarded a patent for their affiliates program. At the other extreme, Manchester United fans are up in arms at the idea of Malcolm Glazer buying their club and running it as a business. Traders in Havefordwest's top of town are up in arms at the lack of notice given to them over the closure of Market Street to traffic. A lot of Christians are up in arms about this, and for once I agree with them, at least in part. The greens are up in arms against allowing construction so close to lakes. Synonyms irate, annoyed, cross, vexed, irritated, exasperated, indignant, aggrieved, irked, piqued, displeased, provoked, galled, resentful Origin Middle English: from Old French armes, from Latin arma. noun..1 phr. Definition of arms in US English: arms plural nounɑrmzärmz 1Weapons and ammunition; armaments. 武器；军械 as modifier arms exports they were subjugated by force of arms Example sentencesExamples What kind of war was the French army expecting and how was it intending to use its arms? Shipments of gold, arms and food had been sent to the mountain region on a regular basis. The leaders of both North and South Korea wished to unite the country by force of arms. Now after the election we need a big campaign to stop any new expenditure on nuclear arms. Eight men in total turned their arms and Kay, the last of them, filed the best return. Synonyms weapons, weapons of war, weaponry, firearms, guns, ordnance, cannon, artillery, armaments, munitions, instruments of war, war machines, military supplies, materiel 2Distinctive emblems or devices originally borne on shields in battle and now forming the heraldic insignia of families, corporations, or countries. （原指盾牌上的）标志（或纹章图案）；（家族或企业等作为标志的）盾形纹章，盾徽；国徽。参见COAT OF ARMS See also coat of arms Example sentencesExamples Other princes and princesses fly a standard with the royal arms in an ermine border. Synonyms crest, emblem, heraldic device, coat of arms, armorial bearing, insignia, escutcheon, shield, heraldry, blazonry Phrases a call to arms A call to prepare for confrontation. 战斗号令 a call to arms to defend against a takeover Example sentencesExamples Most of the West's ‘proscribed terrorist organisations’ maintain web pages that let them bypass the media and publish press releases, galleries of ‘martyrs’ and calls to arms, often in English. So the call to arms that he delivered has - for the moment - failed and we should recognise that fact before granting him a propaganda victory. Bush continued his own regime of pressure to win over a still unsure American public when his routine weekly radio message was in effect turned into a call to arms. The enemy wants to make Iraqis afraid to join security forces, but every week more and more Iraqis answer the call to arms. Incitement to violence should be treated as an offence, irrespective of whether the incitement involves calls to arms against people with different views or with a different amount of melanin in their skins. When she wrote her book, she set out to document something, and yet it has been received as a call to arms by those who were ready for one. Instead it seems to act more as the fiery torch that keeps the impressionable, who only cheer for the good guys, ready for the call to arms. Only 130 of the 500 members of his battalion answered the call to arms. Wiltshire's military might is ready, willing and more than able to answer any call to arms if there is a war with Iraq. There has not been bloodshed, not been a mass call to arms, among the Shia and Kurdish groups. Predictably, she closes with the mandatory anti-establishment requirement, the desperate call to arms. They have been roused to action following a passionate call to arms by Colonel of the Regiment Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter. The right is sounding the call to arms, while the left, as always, is offering excuses at best, and at worst, apologies. These were the first soldiers ever to have been enlisted at the call to arms and by a United States Government. We begin tonight with a new call to arms by President Bush on the global war on terrorists and radical Islamists. It was a tragic end to what started as a call to arms to defend the country's sovereignty, to perform a state duty. It is true the Constitution contains no revolutionary calls to arms. Patriotism is a call to arms to defend yourself against someone else because they do not think like you. Mason raises points that deserve to be calls to arms for the Irish software community. Sharon Pollock's latest play, The Making of Warriors sounds like it should be about war, but it's a call to arms of a different sort. take up arms Begin fighting. 放下武器，停止战斗 Example sentencesExamples Certainly, Colombo residents Kumudini Samuel and Chandragupta Thenuwara are more likely to join an anti-war protest than to take up arms. Only socialism has the power to unite the American people who despise war and oppression and who first took up arms in the struggle for freedom and equality over two centuries ago. As she observed, ‘the purpose of detention is to prevent captured individuals from returning to the field of battle and taking up arms once again.’ The Conventions also establish the criteria that must be met in order to qualify as a lawful combatant taking up arms for the state. To many Britons, including government politicians, they are traitors, willing to take up arms to fight the armed forces of the country they grew up in. Pointing to one of our articles, he said, ‘Young people are taking up arms and going to fight because you write this kind of stuff.’ Many aided the Rangers, supplying carts and food, and often taking up arms to join in the fight against the Japanese. He took up arms with the Earl of Mar, but after the battle of Sheriffmuir he was forced to flee the country. The government estimates some 1 million Liberians have been displaced by the war, which began in 1999 when rebels took up arms against Taylor. Walsh added that it was an affront to all those who took up arms during the War of Independence and died in the fight to remove the British from this country. I would like to dedicate this day to the memory of a young woman, barely in her twenties, who took up arms in 1978 to fight for the liberation of Palestine. Their inhabitants fled after similar attacks, according to rebels in the region who took up arms against the Arab government in Khartoum in February last year. The latest war in Sudan erupted when southern rebels took up arms against the predominantly Arab and Muslim northern government in a bid to obtain greater autonomy for the largely animist and Christian south. Rebels took up arms against Taylor in 1999, however, battling their way to the capital in June and forcing the cornered president into exile in Nigeria two months later. I took up arms and fought the corrupt military and government. Likewise, when the US attempted to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr, it enraged the ghetto Shiite youth, many of whom took up arms against the US forces for the first time. What it means is that we do not take up arms to attack others. The war is southern Sudan erupted in 1983 when black African rebels took up arms to fight Khartoum-based Islamic governments. ‘Some people say they would be happy to take up arms and fight,’ one envoy said. Some of the others managed to take up arms and a battle began between those who only hours earlier had been allies. Synonyms fight, do battle, give battle, wage war, go to war, make war under arms Equipped and ready for war or battle. 处于战备状态的 the Empire now had half a million men under arms Example sentencesExamples You do not have that problem in the army, because they understand that they are men under arms, observing rank and grade. Though the war ended almost 30 years ago, Vietnam still has nearly half a million men under arms. Much of Europe's defense spending goes to keeping large numbers of semi-skilled soldiers under arms, rather than providing modern equipment or high-tech training. The Butah Brigades have an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 men under arms. Even though they have not been required to reduce their conventional forces, the destruction of weapons and economic difficulties have led to a substantial reduction of men under arms. If you are a state maintaining a million men under arms, in all sorts of places in the world, doing principally peacekeeping functions, you have to ask yourself to what degree this imposes greater cost on our missions. When you have a million and a half men under arms, you have a tinder box. Europe keeps 2.3 million troops under arms - many of them poorly trained conscripts. They have more men and women under arms than we have in the police service. Although the country has a defence budget broadly equivalent to that of Switzerland, there are 1.35 million people under arms. The country would have a full draft, with probably at least two million under arms. Ninety members of the tribe are currently under arms, with 30 deployed in Iraq. In general, the French tended to be more impatient for some kind of action than the British because with 2.7 million Frenchmen under arms they feared that total inactivity would demoralize the population. Though Nguyen Van Thieu still had over a million men under arms, his forces collapsed in panic, with soldiers trying desperately to reach any port to escape. China seems a possibility, but one has to wonder if the United States would ever risk placing a major force ashore in a country as vast as China and one with over a billion people, some three million of whom are under arms. The ministry, with about 1 million men under arms, is the country's largest armed forces agency. How many men do they still have under arms, and what are they doing? The active duty Israeli Defense Force is fairly small, with only about 150,000 men and women under arms. Even so, by the outbreak of war in 1939 Germany had more than 4.5 million men under arms, including those in training. He can fairly claim that at the time of capture he was under arms as a foreign volunteer for a sovereign government which he supported. up in arms Protesting vigorously about something. 强力反对 teachers are up in arms about new school tests 老师们强力反对新的学校测试。 Example sentencesExamples Punters who had backed the horse were, with good reason, up in arms. The greens are up in arms against allowing construction so close to lakes. Angry residents are up in arms following new proposals to build 14 flats on a former petrol station site in Rawdon. Angry road hauliers in Laois are up in arms about the costs associated with their businesses. Residents in Willington are up in arms over a building development plan which, they say, will triple the size of the village. Now, the Labour Party is up in arms against a Thatcher state funeral. Portlaoise town councillors are up in arms over what they perceive as a diminution of the powers of the town council. At the other extreme, Manchester United fans are up in arms at the idea of Malcolm Glazer buying their club and running it as a business. This is why many are up in arms to defend their interests, with others willing to go all the way in their call for reform and change. The residents of Castledermot continue to be up in arms over plans to turn an area of the village known as The Green into a car park. Parents and teachers are up in arms over whether a peace banner is political, and whether peace should be promoted in schools. A lot of Christians are up in arms about this, and for once I agree with them, at least in part. Angry residents are up in arms after railway engineering works caused sleepless nights. Activists are up in arms over a Bush proposal to allow nuclear reactors in spacecraft. Residents and parents who reside on the Mountain Road are up in arms over the dangers posed by speeding traffic. Angry farmers are up in arms after plans to build a new livestock market were thrown out. Angry residents are up in arms over a proposal to site a giant mobile phone mast near their homes. Traders in Havefordwest's top of town are up in arms at the lack of notice given to them over the closure of Market Street to traffic. Why aren't the liberal classes up in arms about Zimbabwe and Darfur? People are up in arms about Amazon being awarded a patent for their affiliates program. Synonyms irate, annoyed, cross, vexed, irritated, exasperated, indignant, aggrieved, irked, piqued, displeased, provoked, galled, resentful Origin Middle English: from Old French armes, from Latin arma. noun..1 phr.
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