Turret
Word | TURRET |
Character | 6 |
Hyphenation | tur ret |
Pronunciations | /ˈtʌɹɪt/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Turret"
What do we mean by turret?
A small tower or tower-shaped projection on a building. noun
A low, heavily armored structure, usually rotating horizontally, containing mounted guns and their gunners or crew, as on a warship or tank. noun
A domelike gunner's enclosure projecting from the fuselage of a combat aircraft. noun
A tall wooden structure mounted on wheels and used in ancient warfare by besiegers to scale the walls of an enemy fortress. noun
An attachment for a lathe consisting of a rotating cylindrical block holding various cutting tools. noun
A rotating device holding various lenses, as for a microscope, allowing easy switching from one lens to another. noun
A little tower rising from or otherwise connected with a larger building; a small tower, often crowning or finishing the angle of a wall, etc. noun
In medieval warfare, a movable building of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories, and sometimes 180 feet high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaches to a fortified place for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, etc. noun
Milit., a tower, often revolving, for offensive purposes, on land or water. See cut under monitor. noun
In her.: A small slender tower, usually forming part of a bearing, being set upon a larger tower. Sec turreted, 3. noun
A bearing representing a kind of scepter having both ends alike and resembling the ends of the cross avellane. See tirret. noun
In a railroad-car of American model, the raised part of the middle of the roof, utilized for affording light and ventilation. noun
In a lathe, a cylindrical or polygonal block on the bed, with holes around it for dies. noun
An attachment to a lathe, drill, boring-machine, or slotting-machine designed to hold and present to the work a series of boring-, drilling-, or cutting-tools, the object being to save the time lost in changing from one tool to another by hand. noun
Same as terret. noun
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure. noun
A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries. noun
A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land. noun
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
An automated stationary weapon that shoots everything that moves into its field of view. Also known as a sentry gun. Common enemy in FPSs (first person shooters). Urban Dictionary
An insult word created by a girl named Danielle one day in 8th grade while learning about the real word turret in school (which is a cylinder shaped window which usually protrudes from the side of houses built from the Victorian Era)and she just thought it would sound good as an insult so she told all her friends and changed the definition. It has no particular meaning, just to call people when thay act idiotic or retarded. Urban Dictionary
-The common mispelling of 'tourettes' -a small tower, usually that conjoining another, larger building Urban Dictionary
Exclamation typically shouted immediately after killing an opponent from a gun turret on Halo 2 Urban Dictionary
Turrets are the thing that males have. sometimes males say females have turrets, meaning their titties, but the actual meaning of it is balls. Urban Dictionary
A person with a small penis who likes to masturbate in front of children on skype. Urban Dictionary
A mental disorder that causes the patient to suffer from extreme turrets related to strictly Lil Uzi Vert song lyrics. Those affected are typically short, angry, gay for uzi, and named Luke Laite. Urban Dictionary
A word used to describe someone in Natural-Selection who builds 20+ turrets to block alien movement, and constantly walks around repairing them with a welder. Urban Dictionary
When ones fingers force them to type swear words uncontrollably, typically on internet forums. Urban Dictionary
When a fat woman has a hanging mound of fat that covers her pubic region in a bulbous type fashion like a gunners turret on an old warplane. Urban Dictionary
Synonyms and Antonyms for Turret
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