turret

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Buildings, Militaryturrettur‧ret /ˈtʌrɪt/ noun [countable] 1 TBBa small tower on a large building, especially a castle2 PMthe place on a tank from which guns are fired —turreted adjectiveExamples from the Corpusturret• The Chobham establishment therefore redesigned the hull and turret for the next version, Challenger.• Its round towers and conical turrets peep unexpectedly through the trees on the hills north of Cardiff.• Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room.• Sister Rosa, Sister Rosa, what do you see from the turret?• Explosive reactive armour, which is fitted in box-shaped panels, has been fixed to the turret roof of modern Soviet tanks.Origin turret (1300-1400) Old French torete, tourete, from tor; → TOWER1

单词	turret
释义	turret From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Buildings, Militaryturrettur‧ret /ˈtʌrɪt/ noun [countable] 1 TBBa small tower on a large building, especially a castle2 PMthe place on a tank from which guns are fired —turreted adjectiveExamples from the Corpusturret• The Chobham establishment therefore redesigned the hull and turret for the next version, Challenger.• Its round towers and conical turrets peep unexpectedly through the trees on the hills north of Cardiff.• Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room.• Sister Rosa, Sister Rosa, what do you see from the turret?• Explosive reactive armour, which is fitted in box-shaped panels, has been fixed to the turret roof of modern Soviet tanks.Origin turret (1300-1400) Old French torete, tourete, from tor; → TOWER1
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