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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
weapon
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chemical weapons ban
▪ a global chemical weapons ban
a murder weapon (=the gun, knife etc used to murder someone)
▪ Have they found the murder weapon?
a propaganda weapon (=an event, situation etc that can be used for propaganda)
▪ Sporting success was an important propaganda weapon during the Cold War.
a weapons inspection (=to see what weapons someone has)
▪ The government has agreed to allow UN weapons inspections in the country.
an arms/weapons deal (=one which involves selling weapons)
▪ A number of recent arms deals have embarrassed the government.
an illegal weapon
▪ He was charged with carrying an illegal weapon.
chemical weapon
chemical weapons (=poisonous chemicals used as weapons)
▪ a global treaty banning chemical weapons
concealed weapon
▪ a concealed weapon
deploy forces/troops/weapons etc
▪ NATO’s decision to deploy cruise missiles
fire a gun/weapon/rifle etc (=make it shoot)
▪ the sound of a gun being fired
lethal weapon
▪ a lethal weapon
nuclear bomb/weapon/missile etc
▪ the threat of nuclear attack
▪ concern about the country’s nuclear weapons program
offensive weapon
▪ Jan was convicted of possessing an offensive weapon.
potent weapon
▪ A good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon for attracting staff.
strategic arms/weapons (=weapons designed to reach an enemy country from your own)
▪ strategic nuclear missiles
weapons inspector
weapons of mass destruction (=weapons intended to cause a lot of death and destruction)
▪ The country is believed to have the potential to develop weapons of mass destruction.
weapons of mass destruction
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
atomic
▪ When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945, he was no enthusiast of atomic weapons, but that programme proceeded.
▪ B-29s were known around the world as the bombers that carried atomic weapons.
▪ There is some residual radiation, indicating that atomic weapons were in use approximately five thousand years ago.
▪ In 1974 congressional committees began raising questions in public about the security and usefulness of the atomic weapons.
▪ Nowhere was this more evident than in the marked differences in the handling of collaboration in the atomic and conventional weapons fields.
▪ Under Eisenhower, the United States developed smaller atomic weapons that could be used tactically on the battlefield.
▪ They argued that the use of atomic weapons violated both conventional and customary international law.
▪ Furthermore, he saw incompatibility in Britain spending large sums on atomic weapons whilst accepting Marshall Aid.
automatic
▪ Its automatic weapons chatter nightly, and mortars crump in reply.
▪ Pepper spray is not automatic weapons fire.
▪ At present only automatic weapons are covered.
▪ At that point, small arms and automatic weapons opened up.
▪ The Renault was surrounded by guns, some of them automatic weapons.
▪ One guy had a canteen on his hip which was shot off; it was automatic weapons.
▪ Figures are now running in front of us, shots are fired from automatic weapons, the running figures fall down.
▪ They wore black boots, green military fatigues, had their faces covered with black ski masks and carried automatic weapons.
biological
▪ The accord also authorized the creation of a mechanism to monitor the observance of conventions banning biological weapons.
▪ He has been especially dodgy about agreements meant to prevent him from developing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
▪ Mitterrand suggested extending Bush's measures to chemical and biological as well as conventional weapons and applying the plan globally.
▪ A second biological weapons inspection team, which arrived on Sept. 20, was expected to complete its mission in early October.
▪ Experts say chemical, biological and nuclear weapons are available as never before.
▪ Some are trying to obtain nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
▪ We tend to focus on nuclear but chemical and biological weapons, while not as devastating, would be plenty bad.
chemical
▪ The thought of a beleaguered Ceausescu in possession of chemical weapons is a chilling one.
▪ Many of its chemical weapons are kept in aging and unsafe facilities.
▪ The completion of multilateral negotiations on the abolition of chemical weapons will be pursued.
▪ Resolution 44/115 on chemical weapons was adopted without a vote.
▪ More than a score of nations now seeks or possesses chemical weapons.
▪ If we refuse to ratify, some governments will use our refusal as an excuse to keep their chemical weapons.
conventional
▪ With conventional weapons, the destruction is not so drastic, far more controlled, and more accurate and economical.
▪ It was battle scarred, but mountains are not vulnerable to conventional weapons.
▪ Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms.
▪ Nowhere was this more evident than in the marked differences in the handling of collaboration in the atomic and conventional weapons fields.
▪ Mitterrand suggested extending Bush's measures to chemical and biological as well as conventional weapons and applying the plan globally.
▪ Propose new disarmament initiatives covering all categories of conventional and nuclear weapons.
▪ It was believed that the Soviets already had superiority in conventional armies and weapons.
▪ Development studies During the last decade, the international trade in conventional weapons has almost doubled in volume every five years.
deadly
▪ The trebuchet; a twelfth-century example of this deadly weapon, capable of enormous destruction as a siege engine.
▪ Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
▪ My hands and feet are registered with the local constabulary as deadly weapons.
▪ He was booked into the Vista jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.
heavy
▪ But this week's guerrillas numbered more than 1,000, some of them with heavy weapons.
▪ There were no signs that heavy weapons or aircraft had been brought to the area, and little fortification was visible.
▪ Intense shooting and the boom of heavy weapons erupted in the capital, Lome, before dawn.
▪ It has monitored the movement of heavy weapons into storage areas and formerly warring troops into barracks.
▪ And it will plan how to monitor heavy weapons if a ceasefire takes hold.
▪ Once in Beirut, all heavy weapons would be collected from the militias.
▪ More than the heavy weapons, this banal accoutrement of a rudimentary accountancy scared me shitless.
▪ She had been hit violently on the back of the head with a heavy weapon.
lethal
▪ Bearing in mind that the knife is a lethal weapon, what happens if you get it wrong?
▪ Roughly half of child killers used a gun, while 16 percent used their own hands and feet as lethal weapons.
▪ As I couldn't take Lisabeth with me, it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon.
▪ Being in charge of a lethal weapon, so to speak.
▪ Sentencing Harris, Lord Sutherland, told him that attempted murders involving such lethal weapons were becoming far too prevalent.
▪ Atkinson has a lethal weapon in Dean Saunders - recruited from Liverpool - who is aiming to wreck United's dream.
▪ For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon.
▪ But in the wrong hands they are as lethal a weapon as a gun.
new
▪ Development of all major new weapons programmes would nevertheless continue but over a longer time span.
▪ Carroll said the military is needlessly wasting money on new weapons and too many overseas commitments, such as peacekeeping in Bosnia.
▪ A new weapon had been discovered.
▪ Anyone who wins the use of a new weapon ought to have a chance to recognize its dangers.
▪ It would give a clear message: that the nuclear-weapon states have stopped developing new nuclear weapons.
▪ They intend to spend more on service pay as well as on new weapons and new weapons technology.
▪ More successful than any of these methods, however, looks to be a new biological weapon, a nematode.
▪ If you are lucky, you can get a new weapon.
nuclear
▪ Draw battlefield nuclear weapons back from the front line.
▪ Later some of the Bevanites, though not Mr Bevan himself, added opposition to nuclear weapons to their list of policies.
▪ In the ensuing years much larger nuclear weapons were developed.
▪ Distinctions between categories of nuclear weapons should therefore be discouraged.
offensive
▪ Paul Lowe, 27, and William Young, 21, both of Rochdale, were each charged with carrying offensive weapons.
▪ He appealed to Khrushchev to remove the offensive weapons under United Nations supervision.
▪ Two Haverhill men have been charged with threatening behaviour and possession of offensive weapons.
▪ Police had considered taking action against David as they said he was carrying an offensive weapon his bendy rubber truncheon.
▪ He was convicted of carrying an offensive weapon and got a 28-day suspended sentence and £200 fine.
▪ The commuter was prosecuted, found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon, and fined.
▪ Conventional troop cuts will be accompanied by a reorganization of units in charge of offensive nuclear weapons.
potent
▪ Then she realised that her other hand held a much more potent weapon.
▪ The Khans will tell you that many have now replaced the rifle with another potent weapon, the squash racquet.
▪ But a good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon when it comes to attracting and keeping staff.
▪ Control of an almost adult king was a potent political weapon.
powerful
▪ Fear is one of the Dark Lord's most powerful weapons yet some of his army are defeated by it.
▪ Procrastination or partial responses are powerful weapons.
▪ New powers to refuse wastes and revoke licences are potentially powerful weapons in controlling the movement and safe disposal of wastes.
▪ This was a very powerful and awesome weapon.
▪ They are powerful if unreliable weapons, and each one is a valuable artifact, encrusted with baroque decoration and intricate designs.
▪ Potentially the most powerful of support weapons were Air Force and Navy jets.
▪ Manipulation People who manipulate use guilt and blame-they are powerful weapons to get people to do something.
▪ It is an extraordinarily powerful political weapon.
secret
▪ His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June.
▪ And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon.
▪ Further, there was the frightening possibility of new secret weapons.
▪ So long as she stayed silent she had a secret weapon.
▪ Yet Drake had been aided by a secret weapon.
▪ But his real secret weapon is an amazing talent for simultaneously combining slide with fretted notes.
▪ The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel.
strategic
▪ I told him also that Britain's only strategic weapon would be the minimum deterrent constituted by Trident.
▪ But by 1990 the world was no longer bipolar, except in strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems.
▪ The United States considers strategic weapons negotiations the most pressing issue to be sorted out at the summit.
▪ This meant that the world would be free of strategic nuclear weapons by the year 1996.
▪ The United States still had a substantial lead in strategic weapons.
tactical
▪ But these women also employed medical definitions of physical and mental weakness as an effective tactical weapon in the battle with men.
▪ The amount of uranium in the belt is about four billion tons, enough to make roughly a trillion tactical nuclear weapons.
▪ Beneath this umbrella of deterrence are tactical weapons.
▪ Shevardnadze also proposed a halt in nuclear testing and cuts in tactical nuclear weapons.
▪ Denis Healey was again in the forefront of the efforts to devise satisfactory guidelines for the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
▪ The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned.
▪ Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities.
■ NOUN
assault
▪ The manufacture and sale of nine types of foreign and domestic semi-automatic assault weapons would also be prohibited for three years.
▪ Manufacturers continue to glut communities with handguns, assault weapons and ammunition.
▪ But the ban helped drop the number of assault weapons traced to crimes to 3, 504&038;.
▪ I will veto any attempt to repeal the assault weapons ban or the Brady bill.
▪ You want to add more magazines to the assault weapons so they can spray and kill even more people.
▪ Dole said the assault weapons ban did not work, because many of the weapons were altered to make them legal.
▪ He still stands for repealing the assault weapons ban.
inspector
▪ The new chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, may make a difference.
murder
▪ Hayes found the murder weapon, a flat iron with blood and Maria's hair upon it, in a cupboard.
▪ The murder weapon, a Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, was left at the scene in a plastic bag.
▪ I think this was the murder weapon.
▪ There may be some account of what happened to the murder weapon.
▪ After all, anybody who read the description of the murder weapon in the Saturday papers could have sent the knives.
▪ A murder weapon in that case was never recovered.
▪ My only direct experience with murder weapons was Cluedo, but even I knew enough not to mess with it.
▪ Nico and Molto had been clever enough not to search for the murder weapon, too.
system
▪ But each also has the capability of being built into defensive weapons systems.
▪ To put it mildly, this is great news for the companies that stand to make the weapons systems.
▪ When a contract for a weapon system is received, a project manager is appointed.
▪ Traditionally, ships and weapons systems are developed by different contractors with little coordination during the design phase.
▪ Many of the weapons systems that we use now are bigger than before and have longer ranges, and so on.
▪ There were certain additional restrictions upon the types of weapon systems that could be deployed within these limits.
▪ Yet it is not clear that this promise can be translated into any effective weapon systems.
▪ Using wholly incompatible weapons systems and riven by language difficulties, the troops lack the capacity to fight as coordinated units.
■ VERB
arm
▪ They ride fierce war boars and are armed with a hand weapon.
▪ On the other hand, to arm Anacreon with all weapons of warfare.
▪ This is particularly true for a defensive system based on comparatively small, independent units, armed with short-range weapons.
▪ Hand Gunners are highly effective warriors armed with primitive gunpowder weapons.
▪ Many locals keep weapons at home, ostensibly for hunting but mostly for show, while religious leaders need armed bodyguards.
▪ The women, armed with smuggled weapons, explosives and bottles of acid, were joined by male inmates.
ban
▪ The accord also authorized the creation of a mechanism to monitor the observance of conventions banning biological weapons.
▪ A decree in February banned the sale of weapons to countries involved in armed conflict.
▪ Next week he will appeal to the Senate to ratify a global treaty to ban chemical weapons.
▪ City and county government have the option to ban weapons on public property.
build
▪ But each also has the capability of being built into defensive weapons systems.
▪ Has there been an improvement in stopping smuggling and building weapons of mass destruction?
▪ It is true that a country does not need a nuclear power programme to be able to build a nuclear weapon.
▪ Then he took it a step further -- he built a medieval weapon.
▪ They began a crash program to modernize and strengthen their fleet and to build nuclear weapons with ICBMs to carry them.
▪ Malykh said Mayak was built to produce weapons for the former Soviet Union.
carry
▪ For these purposes they would also tend to wear the most heavily reinforced boots and might occasionally carry weapons of some kind.
▪ They wore black boots, green military fatigues, had their faces covered with black ski masks and carried automatic weapons.
▪ Paul Lowe, 27, and William Young, 21, both of Rochdale, were each charged with carrying offensive weapons.
▪ It always struck me that they had enough people to carry all the weapons.
▪ They wanted the Cossacks to be allowed to carry weapons to protect themselves.
▪ Police had considered taking action against David as they said he was carrying an offensive weapon his bendy rubber truncheon.
conceal
▪ In order to conceal weapons, secret pockets were sewn into the linings of coats.
▪ Six more states, including Texas, implemented laws on Jan. 1 that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.
▪ A kindergartner gets caught with a butter knife in his school backpack and is expelled for carrying a concealed weapon.
▪ Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
▪ The 8 by 14-inch paper outlines an argument that the Arizona Constitution already guarantees the right to carry concealed weapons.
deploy
▪ Johnson has deployed two fearsome weapons: her connections and her charm.
▪ So the United States has no deployed chemical weapons today and will have none in the future.
▪ The president deployed the weapon with which he has calmed past discontents, saying he would announce his heir-apparent.
▪ They tell us that we should not manufacture and deploy nuclear weapons.
develop
▪ By these criteria, some high-tech weapons are cost-effective to develop, even if enemy weapons stagnate.
▪ Under Eisenhower, the United States developed smaller atomic weapons that could be used tactically on the battlefield.
▪ It would make it harder to develop new weapons, but not impossible.
fire
▪ He then fires the weapon, which automatically steers itself toward the target and dives on to its vulnerable upper parts.
▪ According to legend, anyone who ever fired the weapon died of a broken heart or cardiac arrest.
▪ For those sixty seconds you are not a legitimate target, nor can you fire your own weapon.
▪ The troops marched around him, firing their automatic weapons.
▪ As if in slow motion they both aimed and fired their weapons.
▪ Everyone around me seems to be firing their weapons.
▪ Figures are now running in front of us, shots are fired from automatic weapons, the running figures fall down.
▪ Mobs burned tyres in the streets, and the prudent stayed at home while soldiers drove around firing their weapons.
use
▪ And so we used the small weapons we had.
▪ As boys grow older, they readily turn to wrestling and combative play using make-believe weapons of war and violence.
▪ It's not the same plutonium as used in weapons and the nuclear industry.
▪ They left radioactive material in Moscow and said they were going to use that kind of weapon....
▪ The huge horns are used both as a weapon and as a shield.
▪ Basil used his weapons with restraint and on legitimate targets.
▪ The soldiers escorting it used their weapons to help destroy the creatures.
▪ Linked to the machine by electrodes, he had learned the best way to use every weapon ever invented.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a double-edged sword/weapon
▪ But the potential financial boost is a double-edged sword.
▪ It's been said before that being well-known is a double-edged sword.
▪ That can be a double-edged sword, commercially and artistically.
▪ The competition rules must be regarded as a double-edged sword by businesses.
▪ This, however, rapidly proved a double-edged weapon.
▪ Throughout our history, judicial review has been a double-edged sword.
biological weapons/warfare/attack etc
▪ He knew then that the mystery of Titron was only partly explained by the secret biological warfare establishment.
▪ Regional conflicts - along with the proliferation of missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons - present growing dangers.
▪ Schwarzkopf strongly defended his field commanders from allegations that they were careless about chemical and biological weapons.
▪ We tend to focus on nuclear but chemical and biological weapons, while not as devastating, would be plenty bad.
secret weapon
▪ And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon.
▪ But his real secret weapon is an amazing talent for simultaneously combining slide with fretted notes.
▪ Further, there was the frightening possibility of new secret weapons.
▪ His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June.
▪ So long as she stayed silent she had a secret weapon.
▪ The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel.
▪ Yet Drake had been aided by a secret weapon.
tactical weapon/missile
▪ Beneath this umbrella of deterrence are tactical weapons.
▪ But these women also employed medical definitions of physical and mental weakness as an effective tactical weapon in the battle with men.
▪ The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned.
▪ Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons
▪ Community rejection of gangs is a powerful weapon against them.
▪ He was arrested by police and charged with carrying an offensive weapon.
▪ Police are still looking for the murder weapon.
▪ Police have not yet found the murder weapon.
▪ The men were finally persuaded to come out and hand over their weapons to the police.
▪ The three men had blackened faces and were carrying weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During the early weeks of the 1968 Tet Offensive, the Duper was his weapon of choice.
▪ Everyone who looks upon it sees a different weapon.
▪ He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
▪ No weapon was seen in the 12: 20 p.m. holdup.
▪ They wanted the Cossacks to be allowed to carry weapons to protect themselves.
▪ They weren't carrying weapons, so Agnes assumed they were politicians.
▪ We will find the same lack of weapons in Cretan art, more than 10, 000 years after the Palcolithic.
▪ Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weapon

Weapon \Weap"on\ (w[e^]p"[u^]n; 277), n. [OE. wepen, AS. w[=ae]pen; akin to OS. w[=a]pan, OFries. w[=e]pin, w[=e]pen, D. wapen, G. waffe, OHG. waffan, w[=a]fan, Icel. v[=a]pn, Dan. vaaben, Sw. vapen, Goth. w[=e]pna, pl.; of uncertain origin. Cf. Wapentake.]

  1. An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.

    The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
    --2 Cor. x. 4.

    They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped.
    --Milton.

  2. Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. ``Woman's weapons, water drops.''
    --Shak.

  3. (Bot.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.

    Concealed weapons. See under Concealed.

    Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.]
    --Boyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
weapon

Old English wæpen "instrument of fighting and defense, sword," also "penis," from Proto-Germanic *wæpnan (cognates: Old Saxon wapan, Old Norse vapn, Danish vaaben, Old Frisian wepin, Middle Dutch wapen, Old High German wafan, German Waffe "weapon"), from *webno-m, of unknown origin with no cognates outside Germanic.

Wiktionary
weapon

n. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.

WordNet
weapon
  1. n. any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon" [syn: arm, weapon system]

  2. a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons" [syn: artillery]

Wikipedia
Weapon

A weapon, arm, or armament is any device used with intent to inflict damage or harm to living beings, structures, or systems. Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as hunting, crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and warfare. In a broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary.

While just about any ordinary objects such as sticks, stones, cars, or pencils can be used as weapons, many are expressly designed for the purpose – ranging from simple implements such as clubs, swords and guns, to complicated modern intercontinental ballistic missiles, biological and cyber weapons. Something that has been re-purposed, converted, or enhanced to become a weapon of war is termed weaponized, such as a weaponized virus or weaponized lasers.

Weapon (biology)

Weapons are traits that are used by males to fight one another off for access to mates. A mate is won in battle either by a male chasing off a fellow competitor or killing it off, usually leaving the victor as the only option for the female to reproduce with. However, because stronger organisms, whether mentally or physically, are usually favored in combat, this also leads to the evolution of stronger organisms in species that use combat as a way to secure mates. Examples of weapons include the antlers bucks use to fight one another off when competing for females.

Weapon (disambiguation)

A weapon is a tool for hunting or fighting.

Weapon may also refer to:

Weapon (novel)

Weapon is a 1989 science fiction novel by Robert Mason. The book was Mason's first novel; he had previously written a memoir about his experiences in Vietnam titled Chickenhawk. The book is about an android, designed to kill, which experiences a crisis of conscience and runs away from its government masters to live in a Nicaraguan village.

Weapon (song)

"Weapon" is a song by Canadian alternative rock artist Matthew Good. It was the first song released by Good as a solo artist after the break-up of Matthew Good Band. The song was released in October 2002 as the lead single from his debut solo album, Avalanche. The song peaked at No. 4 on Canada's Nielsen rock chart.

Weapon (album)

Weapon is the twelfth studio album by electro-industrial band Skinny Puppy. It was released on May 28, 2013 via Metropolis Records. The album cover is an image of a giant mechanized spider made out of various weapons such as guns and blades.

Weapon (EP)

Weapon is an EP by Six Finger Satellite, released in 1991 through Sub Pop.

Weapon (comics)

Weapon, in comics, may refer to:

  • The Weapon (comics), a series from Platinum Comics written by Fred Van Lente
  • Weapon (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
  • Weapon Alpha (comics), a Marvel Comics character better known as the Guardian
  • Weapon Omega, an alias used by the Marvel Comics character Michael Pointer
  • Weapon Plus, a clandestine program in the Marvel Universe designed to create superhumans
  • Weapon X, part of the Weapon Plus program
  • Weapon Zero, two titles by the Image Comics imprint Top Cow

It may also refer to:

  • Weapons of the Gods (comics) a Hong Kong comics series
  • Weaponers of Qward, a group in the DC Comics Universe, enemies of the Green Lantern Corps
Weapon (band)

Weapon was a Canadian black metal / death metal band, formed by frontman Vetis Monarch in early 2003. The band gained notoriety locally and internationally with incidents of violence. Weapon signed with Relapse Records in 2011 and released their label debut, Embers and Revelations, in 2012. Subsequently, Weapon toured North America with Marduk beginning in May 2012.

In October 2012, Weapon and an older United Kingdom band of the same name came to a legal agreement that the latter band would add 'UK' to their band name. Weapon state at their official Facebook page that they own the US, Canadian and UK trademarks on the name, leading the UK band to change their moniker.

According to frontman Vetis Monarch, Weapon's lawyer Eric Greif worked out their recording deal with Relapse and settled the legal dispute over the band name.

The band announced on June 28, 2013 that they had broken up. Since that announcement, Vetis Monarch has said that he has immersed himself in the corporate world and felt that further Weapon albums would only "be a black/death metal record by the numbers", which he felt would be stagnation.

Usage examples of "weapon".

The very sight of the awesome Forest aborigines, with their fanged muzzles agape and their taloned hands hovering near their weapons, was enough to convert the dance-bone cheaters to instant integrity.

I had all the clothing, body armor, abseil kit, the lot, and the weapons that any member of the assault group would be taking, and there was Fat Boy, who was dressed up in the kit.

In the seventeenth century, the absolutist reaction to the revolutionary forces of modernity celebrated the patrimonial monarchic state and wielded it as a weapon for its own purposes.

Police SWAT teams in chic basic black accessorized with tear gas and semiautomatic weapons are charging in past the doorman holding the door in his gold braid.

This human cargo represents a weight of about twenty tons, which is equivalent to that of thirty persons, two boars, three sows, twelve piglets, thirty fowls, ten dogs, twenty rats, a hundred balled or potted breadfruit and banana plants, and twelve tons of watergourds, seeds, yams, tubers, coconuts, adzes and weapons.

Sleek in some lines and blunt in others, it resembled the F-42, an experimental Air Force fighter unmatched in stealth, maneuverability, and weapons, with a thrust that well exceeded its weight, and aeroelasticity that allowed its wings to alter according to commands from its onboard mesh.

So the aerolites, or glacial boulders, or polished stone weapons of an extinct race, which looked like aerolites, were the children of Ouranos the heaven, and had souls in them.

Plague can be grown easily in a wide range of temperatures and media, and we eventually developed a plague weapon capable of surviving in an aerosol while maintaining its killing capacity.

The weapon disappeared in a blur of armored skirts and the blocky, powerful thighs of Clodius Afer, lunging between Vibulenus and death.

As the technician enabled his ejection seat, his weapons officer strapped himself into the small aft cockpit.

Iraq can be prevented from new aggression, even after he acquires nuclear weapons, by a strategy of deterrence, just as the Soviet Union was for forty-five years.

He has a twenty-eight-year pattern of aggression, violence, miscalculation, and purposeful underestimation of the consequences of his actions that should give real pause to anyone considering whether to allow him to acquire nuclear weapons.

There is no question that the world would be better off if Saddam did not have these weapons, but the danger is considerably less than if Saddam were allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, which he believes will deter the United States and Israel and thereby would encourage him to engage in the kind of foreign aggression that would be likely to provoke a nuclear crisis.

But ask yourself if you truly are willing to bet your savings, your job, or your life that Saddam Hussein will not use a nuclear weapon or embark on some new aggression in the belief that his nuclear weapons will deter the United States.

They argue that Saddam respects deterrence and therefore is highly unlikely to use nuclear weapons or to act aggressively in the belief that his nuclear weapons would shield him from an American or Israeli response.