noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
aerial/artillery/naval bombardment (= attack from the air, land, or sea )
heavy artillery (= large powerful guns )
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heavy artillery
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
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Rangers, meanwhile, are convinced they possess enough heavy artillery to win the war tonight.
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The noise of the explosion resembled the shock of a heavy artillery salute....
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Roxburgh Castle was proof against all but prolonged siege and heavy artillery .
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There was fierce hand-to-hand fighting and the area was coming under heavy tank and artillery shelling.
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The sonic assault doesn't have to be all heavy artillery .
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The city of Battambang was subjected to heavy Khmer Rouge artillery fire.
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Elite Republican Guard troops deployed tanks and heavy artillery against lightly armed guerrilla units.
■ NOUN
attack
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Winston Churchill, with extraordinary perspicacity, wrote at the time: Meeting an artillery attack is like catching a cricket ball.
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Meeting an artillery attack is like catching a cricket ball.
barrage
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Attempts to smash wire defences by artillery barrage were seldom successful.
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If they wished, they could have ordered an artillery barrage or missile attack on the vehicles.
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The rebel forces had launched their latest offensive in mid-March with a sustained artillery barrage and ground attack.
battery
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There were also artillery batteries and thousands of yards of interlocking systems of barbed wire defences.
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These Federals, aided by a number of artillery batteries , man-aged to check Jackson on his left and in his center.
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An artillery battery belonging to the Seventh Virginia Regiment galloped after and did some damage.
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It was made by the Confederates on an artillery battery and its supporting infantry in the lines of General George McCall.
bombardment
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The effects of the artillery bombardment and the air strikes had been devastating.
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Worse yet, their presence frequently meant indiscriminate artillery bombardments against innocent villages suspected of harboring the Vietcong.
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But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment .
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The next day they withdrew under sporadic artillery bombardment .
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This took the form of an artillery bombardment in which 6000 were killed.
fire
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Then the depth of the massed artillery fire could be extended and the process repeated.
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To patrol and ambush, call in artillery fire .
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There has already been artillery fire , and many expect a new offensive in the coming weeks.
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Longstreet merely sent another note directing that if the artillery fire had the desired effect the attack was to go forward.
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They thought they heard thunder in the distance, but it was, in fact, artillery fire .
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As they charged, the artillery fire would break their formation and they would get mixed.
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Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire .
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Bill Lucas, used the lull to call in artillery fire and F-18 Hornet bomber strikes on suspected enemy positions.
piece
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In addition, he took 350,000 prisoners, some 400 artillery pieces and I, 300 machine-guns.
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In the path of his right, some twenty artillery pieces were positioned by General Alfred Pleasonton.
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The heavy armament comprised 1,000 artillery pieces , but many were obsolete or short range.
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About 300 tanks, artillery pieces and other heavy vehicles will have crossed the pontoon bridge by Wednesday, military engineers say.
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It was an act of indecency to fire artillery pieces at innocent horses!
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Off to our left, we could see the artillery pieces .
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Our sergeant ran in front of an artillery piece , and the beehive round cut him to pieces.
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The move from the wood had carried the advance units through the long line of artillery pieces .
shell
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It was even more volatile than a hang-fire on an artillery shell .
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And underneath, lined up like artillery shells , are the tubes which fit in those caulking guns.
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What the Navy needs, critics say, is a ship that can fire lots of relatively inexpensive artillery shells .
unit
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Missile troops positioned on hilltops are very handy for protecting artillery units .
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Or artillery units in need of shells?
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We had an easy mission to an artillery unit .
■ VERB
use
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The man whom Patrick had seen through binoculars was using an artillery sight to fine-tune the angle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In addition, he took 350,000 prisoners, some 400 artillery pieces and I, 300 machine-guns.
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Missile troops positioned on hilltops are very handy for protecting artillery units.
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Other times, though, he would have to call in artillery .
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Roll the artillery dice nine times and add the result.
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The rattle of rifles and the roar of artillery are simply awful.
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We pulled back in cases like that if possible and let artillery , gunships, or even jets hit the area.
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You can hear the artillery going to work on his defences.