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Equipping

Equip \E*quip"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Equipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Equipping.] [F. ['e]quiper to supply, fit out, orig. said of a ship, OF. esquiper to embark; of German origin; cf. OHG. scif, G. schiff, Icel. skip, AS. scip. See Ship.]

  1. To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops.
    --Dryden.

    Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.
    --Ludlow.

  2. To dress up; to array; accouter.

    The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.
    --Addison.

Wiktionary
equipping

vb. (present participle of equip English)

WordNet
equipping

n. the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war [syn: arming, armament] [ant: disarming, disarming]

equip
  1. v. provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities" [syn: fit, fit out, outfit]

  2. provide with abilities or understanding; "She was never equipped to be a dancer"

  3. [also: equipping, equipped]

equipping

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Usage examples of "equipping".

Air Force's Air Combat Command, the man in charge of training and equipping all of the Air Force's nine hundred bombers, fighters, attack, reconnaissance, and battlefield support aircraft and the '400,000 men and women who operated and maintained them.

Samson, often mentioned in the same breath as Colin Powell and Philip Freeman, commanded Eighth Air Force, in charge of training and equipping all of the Air Force's heavy and medium bomber units.

Samson, the man responsible for manning, training, equipping, and deploying all U.

This novel is also dedicated to the men and women of the Aircrew Life-Support Section, 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, for their hard work in training and equipping U.

I should think you'd be more interested in equipping our craft with a few stingers of their own.

If it had been, would the Navy have allowed the A-12 program to fail, would the Air Force be pouring hundreds of millions if not eventually billions of dollars into equipping forty year old B-52s with conventional missiles, or would the Army be maintaining heavy divisions at a personal cost of $60 billion for 35 years of ownership?

But they've all been tries at equipping computers with sensory apparatuses like TV cameras, arms, legs, and wheels, and letting them loose to explore some kind of environment.

Then they extended the main axis to form the Spindle and built Detroit around it, thus equipping the growing station to transform the ingots, girders, sheet and strip coming out of Pittsburgh into the tens of thousands of different types of parts that would be needed for the rest of the structure.

In Earth standards and concepts it would be less ambitious to dream of equipping the Sun with jets and go gunning it around the Galaxy.