Word Meanings - TURNSTILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1. 2. A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or
Additional info about word: TURNSTILE
1. A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1. 2. A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.
Related words: (words related to TURNSTILE)
- PASS
passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind - ADMITTER
One who admits. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - PASSOVER
A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at - PASSUS
A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit. - REVOLVABLE
That may be revolved. - PASSIBILITY
The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill. - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power. - REGISTERING
Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording. - SIMILARY
Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South. - PREVENTABLE
Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases. - ADMITTANCE
The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its - PREVENTINGLY
So as to prevent or hinder. - PASSENGER MILE
A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question. - PASSIFLORA
A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species. - REVOLVENCY
The act or state of revolving; revolution. Its own revolvency upholds the world. Cowper. - REVOLVE
1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved - PREVENT
1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - UNFRAME
To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden. - SURPASS
To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip. - IMPREVENTABILITY
The state or quality of being impreventable. - OUTPASSION
To exceed in passion. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - DISSIMILARLY
In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart. - REPASS
To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea. - SURPASSING
Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n. - MISARRANGEMENT
Wrong arrangement.