单词 | turret |
释义 | turret (once / 1289 pages) 1n 2n A turret is a small tower that is taller than the rest of the building. The long-haired fairy tale heroine Rapunzel had to stay in a turret. The classic turret is perched at the very top of a stone castle and is often small and rounded, with tiny windows. Another meaning of turret is the structure on a tank or fort that's heavily protected with armor and contains a gun. Often this kind of turret is rounded and can rotate, in order to fire in different directions. WORD FAMILYturret: turrets USAGE EXAMPLESOn May 13, 1895, workers discovered a man’s body at the base of one of the post office’s turrets. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) Alongside those figures it showed a picture of a smouldering tank, its turret blown off, next to a crater in the road. Reuters(Dec 08, 2016) “There’s all bombs and machine gun fire,” he said he told the turret captain. Washington Post(Dec 05, 2016) 1 n a small tower extending above a building 2Hyper tower a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building n a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation Syn|Hyper gun enclosure, gun turret platform, weapons platform any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons |
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