1 weaponry

2 weapons

3 arms

1 a row

2 a line

3 to set in order

4 to arrange

5 to line up

6 to eliminate

7 to drain

8 to push open

9 platoon

10 raft

11 classifier for lines, rows etc

1 to rank (1st, 2nd etc)

2 ranking

1 to rank

2 ranking

3 seniority (among siblings)

1 soldiers

2 a force

3 an army

4 weapons

5 arms

6 military

7 warlike

8 classifier: 个 gè

1 peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence

2 jaw-jaw is better than war-war

1 to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom)

1 lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory

1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action

2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action

2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation