What part of speech is arms?

Arms can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. arms is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of arm (infinitive).
  • 2. arms is a noun, plural of arm.

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Verb

Noun

What does arms mean?

Definitions

Verb
arm - prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border"
arm - supply with arms; "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan"

Noun
arms - weapons considered collectively
arms - the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
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Examples of arms

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1. noun The Debaathification Commission had been pushed by Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress very hard, and had pushed many Sunni Arabs into the arms of the guerrillas.
2. noun The Al-Bu Nimr in Ramadi and Al-Qaim rose in arms against Saddam in the mid-nineties following the execution of Thamir Madhlum Al-Dulaymi, an Air Force general belonging to their tribe.
3. noun It has also become an arms depot of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who operate almost freely in the Andaman Sea.
4. noun The drugs and arms travel in all directions.
5. noun Since the "Sea Tigers" of the LTTE, better known as the Tamil Tigers, are the ones who rule the Andaman Sea: they carry the arms and drugs for their own use and also to deliver to rebels in Aceh and all along the east coast of Africa.
6. noun One unnamed naval officer was quoted saying, "Arms smuggling is a very profitable business in this region."
7. noun Unless New Delhi does better in providing security to its own nationals against rebels, secessionists, drug runners and arms traffickers, it will not generate much confidence in the capitals of surrounding nations.
8. noun In 2001, according to Indian army officials, security forces launched a wide-ranging operation in the 300-some inhabited islands neighboring Andaman and Nicobar, and found huge caches of arms.
9. noun The arms were said to belong to the LTTE and "other terrorist groups".
10. noun LTTE arms-running.
11. noun As a result, north of the Andaman Islands, Bangladeshi coastal areas have become a nest of terrorists involved in the shipment of drugs and arms.
12. noun A pattern of arrests and seizures indicate that arms are brought by the LTTE from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand into Chittagong, from where they are transported northward by land to Bhutan.
13. noun But the four planeloads of arms have vanished.
14. noun But the work was contracted out via a complex web of private arms traders .
15. noun And the Moldovan airline used to transport the shipment was blasted by the UN in 2003 for smuggling arms to Liberia, human rights group Amnesty has discovered.
16. verb On the other hand, the US should strong-arm India and Pakistan into a final settlement of the Kashmir issue.
17. verb It is a daily occurrence that the same people who finance, arm and dispatch suicide murderers, condemn the act in English in front of western TV cameras, talking to a world audience, which even partly believes them.
18. verb His utter failure at the last peace conference has taught him to arm himself to the teeth with new tricks and tactics.
19. verb They would arm administrators with so much detailed and up to date information.
20. verb They asked for permission to arm their ships.
21. verb You wanna arm wrestle?
22. verb Do you want to arm wrestle?
23. verb Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
24. verb "Take we the Danaans' bucklers; with a foe / who asks, if craft or courage guide the blow? / Themselves shall arm us."
25. verb "I was an investment banker, the child of refugees, who felt unfulfilled with their own life and my contribution to society,” he said. “So I felt young people had to choose: be good or be cold-hearted investment bankers. So I created The Hult Prize as a platform to equip them, arm them, and then deploy capital to these young people and their ideas; capital that can help them change the world."
26. verb His utter failure at the last peace conference has taught him to arm himself to the teeth with new tricks and tactics.
27. verb They would arm administrators with so much detailed and up to date information.
28. verb They asked for permission to arm their ships.
29. verb You wanna arm wrestle?
30. verb Do you want to arm wrestle?
Sentence  
noun
The Debaathification Commission had been pushed by Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress very hard, and had pushed many Sunni Arabs into the arms of the guerrillas.
The Al-Bu Nimr in Ramadi and Al-Qaim rose in arms against Saddam in the mid-nineties following the execution of Thamir Madhlum Al-Dulaymi, an Air Force general belonging to their tribe.
It has also become an arms depot of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who operate almost freely in the Andaman Sea.
The drugs and arms travel in all directions.
Since the "Sea Tigers" of the LTTE, better known as the Tamil Tigers, are the ones who rule the Andaman Sea: they carry the arms and drugs for their own use and also to deliver to rebels in Aceh and all along the east coast of Africa.
One unnamed naval officer was quoted saying, "Arms smuggling is a very profitable business in this region."
Unless New Delhi does better in providing security to its own nationals against rebels, secessionists, drug runners and arms traffickers, it will not generate much confidence in the capitals of surrounding nations.
In 2001, according to Indian army officials, security forces launched a wide-ranging operation in the 300-some inhabited islands neighboring Andaman and Nicobar, and found huge caches of arms.
The arms were said to belong to the LTTE and "other terrorist groups".
LTTE arms-running.
As a result, north of the Andaman Islands, Bangladeshi coastal areas have become a nest of terrorists involved in the shipment of drugs and arms.
A pattern of arrests and seizures indicate that arms are brought by the LTTE from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand into Chittagong, from where they are transported northward by land to Bhutan.
But the four planeloads of arms have vanished.
But the work was contracted out via a complex web of private arms traders .
And the Moldovan airline used to transport the shipment was blasted by the UN in 2003 for smuggling arms to Liberia, human rights group Amnesty has discovered.
verb
On the other hand, the US should strong-arm India and Pakistan into a final settlement of the Kashmir issue.
It is a daily occurrence that the same people who finance, arm and dispatch suicide murderers, condemn the act in English in front of western TV cameras, talking to a world audience, which even partly believes them.
His utter failure at the last peace conference has taught him to arm himself to the teeth with new tricks and tactics.
They would arm administrators with so much detailed and up to date information.
They asked for permission to arm their ships.
You wanna arm wrestle?
Do you want to arm wrestle?
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
"Take we the Danaans' bucklers; with a foe / who asks, if craft or courage guide the blow? / Themselves shall arm us."
"I was an investment banker, the child of refugees, who felt unfulfilled with their own life and my contribution to society,” he said. “So I felt young people had to choose: be good or be cold-hearted investment bankers. So I created The Hult Prize as a platform to equip them, arm them, and then deploy capital to these young people and their ideas; capital that can help them change the world."
His utter failure at the last peace conference has taught him to arm himself to the teeth with new tricks and tactics.
They would arm administrators with so much detailed and up to date information.
They asked for permission to arm their ships.
You wanna arm wrestle?
Do you want to arm wrestle?
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