Turret
noun
A small tower on top of a larger tower or at the corner of a building or wall, typically of a castle.
The castle's turret was the highest point and provided a panoramic view of the surrounding lands.
Often appears as...
- castle turret
- tower turret
noun
A rotating structure of an armored vehicle or warship that carries guns or other weapons.
The turret of a tank can rotate to aim the gun in different directions.
Often appears as...
- tank turret
- ship turret
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Technical
noun
A device in an industrial machine for holding, moving, or supporting tools or other working parts.
The lathe has a turret that holds various cutting tools.
Often appears as...
- lathe turret
- turret head
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Technical
noun
A small tower on top of a larger tower or at the corner of a building or wall, typically of a castle.
The castle's turret was the highest point and provided a panoramic view of the surrounding lands.
Often appears as...
- castle turret
- tower turret
noun
A rotating structure of an armored vehicle or warship that carries guns or other weapons.
The turret of a tank can rotate to aim the gun in different directions.
Often appears as...
- tank turret
- ship turret
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A device in an industrial machine for holding, moving, or supporting tools or other working parts.
The lathe has a turret that holds various cutting tools.
Often appears as...
- lathe turret
- turret head
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Structures
Turret often refers to old, historical buildings like castles, not modern ones.
Medieval castles had turrets for defense and lookout.
Pro Tip 2/3Architecture Element
In architecture, turrets have a decorative purpose and evoke a fairy-tale image.
The mansion's turrets added to its Victorian charm.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Position
Turrets are usually high up on buildings giving them a strategic panorama.
The princess gazed out from the castle turret.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Structures
Turret often refers to old, historical buildings like castles, not modern ones.
Medieval castles had turrets for defense and lookout.
Pro Tip 2/3Architecture Element
In architecture, turrets have a decorative purpose and evoke a fairy-tale image.
The mansion's turrets added to its Victorian charm.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Position
Turrets are usually high up on buildings giving them a strategic panorama.
The princess gazed out from the castle turret.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Structures
Turret often refers to old, historical buildings like castles, not modern ones.
Medieval castles had turrets for defense and lookout.
Pro Tip 2/3Architecture Element
In architecture, turrets have a decorative purpose and evoke a fairy-tale image.
The mansion's turrets added to its Victorian charm.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Position
Turrets are usually high up on buildings giving them a strategic panorama.
The princess gazed out from the castle turret.
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Safari Live - Day 190 PIPE...
form these long turrets and inside they go as a little sort of caterpillar like worm and then they will eventually pop out the end metamorphosizing into a beautiful moth to go and then decompose another horn somewhere else at this all part of nature folks or part and parcel of the circle of life our chair the
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Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...
changed forever when diamonds were found near the coastal town of Lou turrets in some places they were just lying on the surface and the miners crawled on their bellies and collected them by the handful sometimes they would go out to search for diamonds at night when they
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Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
and they're buying them as fast as we can make them. We put it on a turret with a camera, so that when they shoot at you, you're over there, and it's there. I have a bunch of other inventions. I invented a plasma antenna, to shift gears.
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Fascinating Termite...
so these spires and turrets are key elements in an air conditioning system of a near perfect mansion that has start walls to protect its inhabitants from the elements and from their enemies deep dungeons where they can gather
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Dan Phillips: Creative...
including delivery to my lot. Then, looking up in the turret, you see there are bulges and pokes and sags and so forth. Well, if that ruins your life, well, then, you shouldn't live there.
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Why glass towers are bad...
made of mirrored glass. And he ornamented those buildings with metal trim and bays and Gothic turrets which really pop on the skyline. But at ground level,
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Creative houses from...
including delivery to my lot then looking up in the turret you see there are bulges and pokes and sags and so forth well if that ruins your life
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Chameleon Is Hesitant...
in the lush African greenery someone has its eye on this cricket a chameleon watches from a branch its eye turrets
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Speaking out against...
your life is over you need to work now my grandmother you're like a burnt paper it was a time of turret terrible
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Poetry for the Red White...
breathe and think the turrets rotated 360 degrees
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Safari Live - Day 190 PIPE...
form these long turrets and inside they go as a little sort of caterpillar like worm and then they will eventually pop out the end metamorphosizing into a beautiful moth to go and then decompose another horn somewhere else at this all part of nature folks or part and parcel of the circle of life our chair the
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Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...
changed forever when diamonds were found near the coastal town of Lou turrets in some places they were just lying on the surface and the miners crawled on their bellies and collected them by the handful sometimes they would go out to search for diamonds at night when they
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Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
and they're buying them as fast as we can make them. We put it on a turret with a camera, so that when they shoot at you, you're over there, and it's there. I have a bunch of other inventions. I invented a plasma antenna, to shift gears.
Video examples
Fascinating Termite...
so these spires and turrets are key elements in an air conditioning system of a near perfect mansion that has start walls to protect its inhabitants from the elements and from their enemies deep dungeons where they can gather
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Dan Phillips: Creative...
including delivery to my lot. Then, looking up in the turret, you see there are bulges and pokes and sags and so forth. Well, if that ruins your life, well, then, you shouldn't live there.
Video examples
Why glass towers are bad...
made of mirrored glass. And he ornamented those buildings with metal trim and bays and Gothic turrets which really pop on the skyline. But at ground level,
Video examples
Creative houses from...
including delivery to my lot then looking up in the turret you see there are bulges and pokes and sags and so forth well if that ruins your life
Video examples
Chameleon Is Hesitant...
in the lush African greenery someone has its eye on this cricket a chameleon watches from a branch its eye turrets
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Speaking out against...
your life is over you need to work now my grandmother you're like a burnt paper it was a time of turret terrible
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Poetry for the Red White...
breathe and think the turrets rotated 360 degrees
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Marc Randolph
American Businessman
The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.
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Woody Harrelson
American Actor
I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American Architect
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
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Steve Erickson
American Novelist
Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It's a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret.
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Laurie Graham
English Journalist
Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.
Quote examples
Marc Randolph
American Businessman
The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.
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Woody Harrelson
American Actor
I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her.
Quote examples
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American Architect
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
Quote examples
Steve Erickson
American Novelist
Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.
Quote examples
Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It's a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret.
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Laurie Graham
English Journalist
Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.
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