- 1城堡小塔；(戰車/軍艦)砲塔
A turret is a small tower, usually built onto the side or corner of a bigger building like a castle. Soldiers used to stand in turrets to watch for enemies or shoot from a protected spot. The word is also used for the round, spinning part on top of a tank or a where the guns are, called "a gun turret."
From the word’s history
From Middle English touret, from Old French torete, diminutive of tour 'tower', from Latin turris.
源自古法文 torete「小塔」，最早是拉丁文 turris。
組成A smaller form of "tower."
同家族的字
- towerthe larger structure that turret is a small version of
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
turretnoun/ˈtʌɹɪt/
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architectureA 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.
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historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsA 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.
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
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governmentmilitarypoliticsAn armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
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rail-transportrailwaystransportThe elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
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businessengineeringmachiningA turret head.
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gamblinggamesThe central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
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