لفظ "مسلح" کے لغت کے معنی ہتھیاروں سے لیس یا فراہم کرنے کا عمل ہے یا ہتھیاروں یا فوجی سازوسامان کو حاصل اور ذخیرہ کرکے جنگ یا تنازعہ کی تیاری کا عمل ہے۔ یہ کسی چیز کو استعمال کے لیے تیار کرنے کے عمل کا بھی حوالہ دے سکتا ہے، جیسے کہ الارم سسٹم کو مسلح کرنا یا بم کو مسلح کرنا۔
1. The Secretary of the West Yorkshire Police Federation was more restrained, calling for tighter controls on firearms but dismissing the idea of routinely arming officers.
2. Again, in the words of Saint Paul, The very first step in arming yourself for battle against the devil is to gird your loins with truth.
3. Once the machines were prepared they planted the bombs, arming them at the same moment then moving to the next one.
4. Sire, the usurper is arming three ships, he meditates some project, which, however mad, is yet, perhaps, terrible.
5. He occupied the interval of five hours in taking, as people say, the air of the house, and in arming himself against all ill chances.
6. Giving them intellect and the capacity to reason is like arming a Neanderthal with a machine gun and then telling the savage not to pull the trigger.
7. Their cannons were arming, which was why the small fighters were getting out of the way.
8. Launcher grenades require approximately thirty meters of flight before arming, and the soldier was firing at people closer than that.