turnout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English turn outdeverb.
English turnout
Deverbal from turn out.
Inflected forms:
form: turnouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turn-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of coming forth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The number or proportion of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Depending on the location of a restaurant, weekdays may equally experience low turnout.
A country which has always had an exceptionally good turnout for its elections to the European Parliament is Belgium. Every single election has had a turnout of over 90 per cent. The reason for this is that there is compulsory voting in Belgium.
gloss: A place to pull off a road.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: When towing a trailer, use the turnouts to let faster traffic pass.
This is a location that should not be missed, especially during late afternoons in winter. This field can be photographed from the narrow driveway that leads down to the restaurant or from the turnout south of the restaurant, ...
gloss: A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: An article published recently in our associated weekly contemporary, The Railway Gazette, dealt at some length with the differences in construction and operation between civil and military railways, and explained that points and crossings are more commonly termed "turnouts" in military parlance.
Crossing stations on single lines are laid out so that one line has a straight run through, and is signalled in each direction, avoiding the need to slow down to take the turnout into the loop.
[...] the Welwyn bottleneck will be relaid with high-speed turnouts and resignalled for reversible working.
When the engineer of Extra 3119 West reported that he was in trouble, the VAN train was about 4 1/2 minutes from the east turnout of Dawes passing track and about 4 miles ahead of Extra 3119 West. The dispatcher probably could have averted the accident by immediately acting to align the turnout at Dawes to the passing track and instructing the VAN train engineer to slow down sufficiently to allow for the time it would take for the CTC command to be executed.
gloss: A quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A striker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Meanwhile on the eighteenth a party of soldiers dispersed a crowd in Over Darwen, and the following day a detachment came to protect the Hargreaves' large mill at Accrington, where one of the partners, anticipating a visit from the turnouts, had sworn in several hundred of the workpeople as special constables.
gloss: That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turnout.
"Yes," answered Reynard, "but old Bruin sat on the sledge and drove just as if he had stolen both horse and turn-out." "Bad luck to him, the rascal!" said the farmer.
Occasionally turnouts would be seen driven randem in circus parades.
gloss: Net quantity of produce yielded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of putting out to pasture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Duties include feeding and turnout of horses.
gloss: Rotation of the leg at the hips which causes the feet and knees to turn outward, away from the front of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: turnout coat
turnout gear
turnout pants
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