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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."
城堡小塔；(戰車/軍艦)砲塔
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，原文照列，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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。