noun
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Armed forces.
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He spent six years in the military.
adjective
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Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
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She was dishonorably discharged from all military duties.
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Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
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If you join a military force, you may end up killing people.
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Relating to war.
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Relating to armies or ground forces.
Examples of military in a Sentence
Military science says that the more troops the greater the strength.
There are sacrifices in any military campaign.
This contradiction arises from the fact that military science assumes the strength of an army to be identical with its numbers.
Helicopters thumped in the distance while military patrols roared overhead.
The rest of the military is overseas.
The explanation of this strange fact given by Russian military historians (to the effect that Kutuzov hindered an attack) is unfounded, for we know that he could not restrain the troops from attacking at Vyazma and Tarutino.
In military affairs the strength of an army is the product of its mass and some unknown x.
I felt like a POW giving up military secrets.
Every army is composed of lower grades of the service--the rank and file--of whom there are always the greatest number; of the next higher military rank--corporals and noncommissioned officers of whom there are fewer, and of still-higher officers of whom there are still fewer, and so on to the highest military command which is concentrated in one person.
The highest-ranking military members and civilian staff members were crammed into the small center, staring at the scene on the screen before them.
He had behaved like a cowardly recruit who mutilates himself to escape military service.
Both entered India as commercial companies, but the disorganized condition of the Mogul empire necessitated the use of military force to protect their interests, and allured them to conquest.
To do this other qualities than mere military capacity were required.
The latter prevailed, and in 1192 established the dual system of government under which the emperor or Mikado ruled only in name, and the real power was in the hands of a hereditary military chief called Shogun.
As it was impossible to establish a military cordon along the borders of Canaan, it was necessary absolutely to cripple the adjoining tribes.
His conduct in this matter highly incensed the king, who insisted on Conway being deprived of his military command as well as of his appointment in the royal household.
He is commanderin-chief of the static military and naval forces, except when they are called into the service of the United States.
The question I have asked these gentlemen to meet to discuss is a military one.
Even the regular military's special forces teams were not as well equipped as the pretty, frowning woman before them.
He was more intrigued by the sight of soldiers in PMF grays as well as those in the regular military's black uniforms.
These keypads control all the military's weapons in the country.
He then entered the Dutch service, took part in the campaigns of 1815, and, after studying another year at Heidelberg, was member for Luxemburg of the military commission of the German federal diet (1824, 1825).
In 1830 and 1831 he took part in the Dutch campaign in Belgium, and in 1844, after being promoted to the rank of general, was sent on an important mission to the Dutch East Indies to inquire into the state of their military defences.
Ecclesiastical immunities, such as reservation of the criminal cases of the clergy, exemption from military service and other privileges, are expressly maintained in a certain number of pacts.
In July 1644 he went to Dorsetshire on military service, and on the 3rd of August received a commission as field-marshal general.
His military service terminated at the time of the Self-denying Ordinance in 1645; he had associated himself with the Presbyterian faction, and naturally enough was not included in the New Model.
In 1443 the allied armies of the Hungarians under Hunyady and the Servians under George Brankovich, retook it from the Turks, but in 1456 it again came under Turkish dominion, and remained for more than 300 years the most important Turkish military station on the road between Hungary and Constantinople.
A truce was concluded in 1317, but as the Sicilians helped the north Italian Ghibellines in the attack on Genoa, and Frederick seized some Church revenues for military purposes, the pope (John XXII.) excommunicated him and placed the island under an interdict (1321) which lasted until 1 335.
But in 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned for having planned a military expedition to Italy.
He was the author of military reforms, which included the improvement of artillery.
He was educated at the military school at Berlin and afterwards at the university of Oxford.
Since the abolition of flogging in the services, the use of the cat is now restricted to certain classes of offenders in military prisons (Army Act 1881, § 133).
Its military importance was recognized in 427 B.C. by the Spartans, who sent a garrison to guard the Trachinian plain against the marauding highland tribes of Oeta and built a citadel close by the Asopus gorge with the new name of Heraclea.
But in the end the superior military efficiency of the Swedes and Poles invariably prevailed.
Rustichuk is the headquarters of a military division and of a naval flotilla stationed on the Danube.
It forms part of the educational division (academie) of Douai and of the region of the second army corps, its military centre being at Amiens, where also is its court of appeal.
Just outside the town lies the Alkmaar wood, at the entrance to which stands the military cadet school which serves as a preparatoryschool for the royal military academy at Breda.
It is true that our best authority, Arrian, fails to substantiate the traditional view satisfactorily; on the other hand those who maintain it urge that Arrian's interests were mainly military, and that the other authorities, if inferior in trustworthiness, are completer in range of vision.
The British army is bound by His Majesty's Rules and Regulations to play at the Philharmonic pitch, and a fork tuned to a' 452.5 in 1890 is preserved as the standard for the Military Training School at Kneller Hall.
But the Philharmonic Society adopted the Diapason Normal in 1896, and the military bands have not gone with it.
The high pitch remains only where there are large concert organs not yet lowered, and with the military and brass bands.
It was formerly a Turkish military centre and most of the people were of Turkish blood.
In the year 597 (being then, probably, not far from thirty years of age) he was carried off to Babylonia by Nebuchadrezzar with King Jehoiachin and a large body of nobles, military men and artisans, and there, it would seem, he spent the rest of his life.
The sheriff "was the king's representative in all matters judicial, military and financial in the shire.
There are also several Albanian settlements in European Turkey and Asia Minor, some founded by military colonists who received grants of land from successive sultans, others owing their origin to enforced migrations after insurrections in Albania.
Avranches, an important military station of the Romans, was in the middle ages chief place of a county of the duchy of Normandy.
In 1906 the president announced that permission had been given by the German emperor for 30 Argentine officers to enter the German army each year and to serve eighteen months, and also for five officers to attend the Berlin Military Academy.
In addition, there is a corps of coast artillery numbering 450 men, from which garrisons are drawn for the military port, Zarate arsenal and naval prison.
The naval arsenal is situated on the " north basin " of the Buenos Aires port, and the military port at Bahia Blanca is provided with a dry dock of the largest size, and extensive repair shops.
Pedro de Zeballos, the first viceroy, took with him from Spain a large military force with which he finally expelled the Portuguese from the banks of the river Plate.