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turret
/ˈtʌɹ.ɪt/
noun 5
Collocations
3ADJ.
armed, pointed
TURRET + NOUN
noose
PREP.
in, towards, with, without
Definitions
noun
1
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
2
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, e
3
A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
4
An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
5
The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
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Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
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There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
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IdaBot is a robot that looks like a tank without a turret, armed not with guns, but with cameras and radio frequency sensors.
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He pointed towards the turret.
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He pointed in the direction of the turret.
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