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Definition: Turnstile |
TurnstileNoun1. A gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "turnstile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A turnstile is a form of gate which allows movement of people into a building or venue, but not out. As such, a turnstile is often used for controlling the input of paying people, for an event or in public transport, for example. Turnstiles are also used for counting the numbers of people passing through a gate, even where payment is not involved.Turnstiles use ratchet mechanisms to allow the rotation of the stile in one direction allowing input but preventing rotation in the other direction.
Mechanical turnstiles are lesser used these days, with electronic gate and ticketing systems becoming more common.
In the first half of the twentieth century, it was common for entry to public lavatories in Britain to be controlled by turnstiles.
Turnstiles was the title of an album by Billy Joel.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Turnstile."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hindrance | Turnstile, turnpike; gate, portcullis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Turnstile |
| English words defined with "turnstile": Fare wicket. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "turnstile": type inference. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Turnstile (1911) | |
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 | Figure 23. Current meter invented by Jacob Amsler-Laffon about 1876. This instrument was devised to measure the currents of streams and rivers. It was an application of Woltman's electrical turnstile method of measuring the current. The first use of this instrument was in the Rhine River near Schaffhouse in 1876 . 278 measurements were made at 26 stations at 6 meters depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 11. Lyth river current meter- this instrument is identical to that built by Ambler-Lafond. It functions according to the turnstile principle of Reinhard Woltman which dates from the end of the 19th Century. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Turnstile and ticket booth of Trans-Lux Theatre, 58th St. and Madison Ave., New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Woman Inside Turnstile" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A young woman walks through a turnstile into a mall. Visit: http://www.qr5.com ." | "Turnstile 2" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "Second shot of turnstile at a different angle & this was changed in photoshop into a duplex photo." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He turned into the pillared hall, now calmly lit, went up the staircase and passed in through the clicking turnstile. |
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| "Turnstile" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Turnstile" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
turnstile | 41 |
antenna turnstile | 8 |
security turnstile | 4 |
gate turnstile | 3 |
optical turnstile | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "turnstile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | timon (beam, handlebar, helm rudder, pole, rudder, shaft, steering wheel, wheel), pengesë rrotulluese në vendkalim. (various references) | |
Arabic | باب دوار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | турникет (stile, tourniquet), въртяща се преграда на вход. (various references) | |
Chinese | 旋转门. (various references) | |
Czech | turniket (tourniquet). (various references) | |
Danish | korsbom, drejekors. (various references) | |
Dutch | tourniquet, draaikruis. (various references) | |
Farsi | گردان در. (various references) | |
French | tourniquet (turntable for bottles of sparkling wine). (various references) | |
German | Drehkreuz (spider, star handle). (various references) | |
Greek | στροφείο σταυροειδές, σταυρόλεξο διοδίων, περιστρεφόμενο φράγμα, περιστροφική πόρτα, δίοδος περιστρεφόμενη. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחסום כניסה מסתובב. (various references) | |
Hungarian | forgósorompó, fogókereszt. (various references) | |
Italian | tornella, girevole (revolving, rolling, spinning, turning), arganello contapersone. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 自動改札機 (automatic turnstile). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じどうかいさつき (automatic turnstile). (various references) | |
Manx | keim hyndaaee, giat cassee (turnpike). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urnstiletay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torniquete (reel, swivel), molinete (crab, drawing-machine, gin, hoist, pulley, winch, windlass). (various references) | |
Romanian | uşã turnantã, portiţã rotitoare. (various references) | |
Russian | турникет (stile, tourniquet, wicket). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrata sa obrtnim krstom za pojedinačni ulazak. (various references) | |
Spanish | torniquete (swivel, tourniquet). (various references) | |
Swedish | vändkors. (various references) | |
Turkish | turnike (toll bar, toll gate, tourniquet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хрестовина (center-piece, centre-piece, cross-beam, cross-piece, tourniquet), турнікет (stile, tourniquet, wicket). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cửa xoay. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turnstile": turnstiles. (additional references) | |
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"Turnstile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: turnstyle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "turnstile" (pronounced ter"nstī'l) |
| 4 | -s t ī' l | freestyle, hairstyle, textile, lifestyle, peristyle. |
| 3 | -t ī' l | gentile, mercantile, percentile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: insulter, lutenist, runtiest, sluttier. | |
-2 letters: entrust, intrust, linters, litters, luniest, lustier, luteins, nutlets, nutsier, nutters, nuttier, retints, ruliest, runlets, rutiles, slitter, stinter, tilters, tinters, triunes, turtles, uniters, utensil. | |
-3 letters: elints, enlist, estrin, inerts, inlets, insert, insult, insure, inters, inures, liners, linter, listen, lister, liters, litres, litten, litter, lunets, lunier, lunies, luster, lustre, lutein. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: lutestring, neutralist, turnstiles. | |
+2 letters: lutestrings, neutralists, spluttering, tranquilest. | |
+3 letters: curtailments, elutriations, instrumental, intercluster, interstimuli, luteotropins, neutralistic, neutralities, outwrestling, reluctations, sulfuretting, tranquillest, triangulates, tristfulness. | |
+4 letters: adulterations, constructible, inarticulates, instructively, instrumentals, intercultures, interlocutors, interstimulus, luteotrophins, multistranded, pretentiously, restimulating, restimulation, reticulations, revolutionist, supermilitant, tranquilities, ultradistance, ventriloquist. | |
+5 letters: antifilibuster, articulateness, constructively, disgruntlement, electrocutions, indestructible, indestructibly, instrumentally, interfaculties, intermenstrual, intersexuality, restimulations, reutilizations, revolutionists, tranquillities, transsexuality, trinucleotides, tristfulnesses, ultradistances, ultramodernist, ultrasensitive, ventriloquists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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