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"TURNOUTS" is a plural of: turnout. |
Date "TURNOUTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | Turnouts: fire clothes worn then turning out for a fire alarm. Also called: bunker clothes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TURNOUTSSynonym: Carriages & coaches. (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: turn-outs (public administration). |
Crosswords: TURNOUTS |
| Specialty definitions using "TURNOUTS": canal tender, CANAL-EQUIPMENT MECHANIC ♦ diagrammatic interlocking technique, distributaries, distributary minors, DITCH RIDER, ditch tender ♦ quarternary canals ♦ secondary canals, sub-minors ♦ tertiary canals ♦ water tender ♦ zanjero. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Argentina | In 1985 and 1987, large turnouts for mid-term elections demonstrated continued public support for a strong and vigorous democratic system. (references) |
Poland | The Polish railway needs many modernization projects including purchase of track rehabilitation machinery, signaling cables, power supply cables, signaling equipment, steel parts for standard turnouts, as well as hot and flat wheel detection equipment. (references) | |
Political Rights | Ukraine | Very high voter turnouts, particularly in western districts, aroused suspicion of ballot stuffing on President Kuchma's behalf in the second round of voting. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TURNOUTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TURNOUTS" is used about 13 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 (plural) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
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 |
turnouts | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TURNOUTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | tenue de feu (fire-fighting tunic, turn-out suit), aiguillages (turn-offs). (various references) | ||||
German | Vertreibungen. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | urnoutstay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"TURNOUTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tunout, Turnhout, turout. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TURNOUTS" (pronounced ter"nou'ts) |
| 4 | -n ou' t s | brownouts. |
| 3 | -ou' t s | bailouts, blackouts, blowouts, breakouts, buyouts, checkouts, cookouts, cutouts, dropouts, dugouts, eelpouts, fallouts, handouts, hangouts, hereabouts, hideouts, holdouts, layouts, lockouts, payouts, printouts, pullouts, sellouts, stakeouts, standouts, strikeouts, tryouts, walkouts, washouts, whereabouts, workouts. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: outturns. | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: outruns, outturn, runouts, surtout, turnout. | |
-2 letters: outrun, runout, strunt, trouts, tutors. | |
-3 letters: roust, routs, runts, snort, snout, stour, stout, strut, stunt, sturt, tonus, torts, torus, tours, touts, trots, trout, trust, turns, tutor, tutus. | |
-4 letters: nous, nuts, onus, orts, ours, oust, outs, rots, rout, runs, runt, rust, ruts, snot, sorn, sort, sour, stun, tons, torn. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: nutritious, turnabouts. | |
+3 letters: countersuit, punctuators, tourniquets. | |
+4 letters: countersuits, nutritiously, outintrigues, outthrusting, tortuousness, unfortunates, unobstructed. | |
+5 letters: counterthrust, nonnutritious, nonstructural, nonstructured, rectitudinous, structuration, subsaturation, unconstructed, unpretentious, untrustworthy. | |
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