turnout

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of coming forth.

2. 2

   The number or proportion of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an…

   The number or proportion of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.

   • Depending on the location of a restaurant, weekdays may equally experience low turnout.
3. 3

   A place to pull off a road.

   • When towing a trailer, use the turnouts to let faster traffic pass.
   • This is a location that should not be missed, especially during late afternoons in winter. This field can be photographed from the narrow driveway that leads down to the restaurant or from the turnout south of the restaurant, ...
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   1. 4

      A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks

      A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.

      • Crossing stations on single lines are laid out so that one line has a straight run through, and is signalled in each direction, avoiding the need to slow down to take the turnout into the loop.
      • [...] the Welwyn bottleneck will be relaid with high-speed turnouts and resignalled for reversible working.
   2. 5

      A quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages

      A quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike.

   3. 6

      A striker.

   4. 7

      That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited

      That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage.

      • A man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turnout.
      • "Yes," answered Reynard, "but old Bruin sat on the sledge and drove just as if he had stolen both horse and turn-out." "Bad luck to him, the rascal!" said the farmer.
      • Occasionally turnouts would be seen driven randem in circus parades.
   5. 8

      Net quantity of produce yielded.

   6. 9

      The act of putting out to pasture.

      • Duties include feeding and turnout of horses.
   7. 10

      Rotation of the leg at the hips which causes the feet and knees to turn outward, away…

      Rotation of the leg at the hips which causes the feet and knees to turn outward, away from the front of the body.

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