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armoury

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

An armoury is a place where weapons, armour, and military equipment are stored, made, repaired, or displayed; it may also mean a collection of such resources.

Detailed Definition
An armoury is a storehouse or collection of weapons and military equipment. The word is familiar in historical or military contexts, but many readers may still pause over its exact sense in this poem.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Death's dread armoury was stored / With the shafts he most abhorred,” makes disease into weaponry; An armoury is a storehouse for weapons and military equipment; The museum's armoury gleams with helmets, pikes, and inherited violence; Her armoury is language, sharpened against silence
Additional Notes
The quoted line uses armoury in its specialized weapons sense, which is less everyday than ordinary vocabulary.; Found in the poem, The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling
Also Known As
armory arsenal weapons cache defensive stockpile
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