meaning of turrets
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- Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Turret. In architecture, a turret is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Turrets were used to provide a projecting defensive position allowing covering fire to the adjacent wall in the days of military fortification.
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Architecture Terms & Definitions Shed roof: A roof with a single slope and rafters spanning from one wall to the other. Sidelights: Narrow windows flanking an entry door. Spandrel panel: The panel formed by the bottom of a window and the head of a lower window. Spire: A cone shaped roof element with a steep point. Terracotta: Fired ceramic clay used in architectural wall elements or ornaments. Transom: A small window placed above a door or window. Turret: A small tower at the corner of a building. Veneer: A thin decorative finish typically made of brick, stone or stucco.
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- Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Fortress(noun) a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. Fortress(verb) to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
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- Bastion: A tower or turret projecting from a wall or at the junction of two walls. Battlements: These are the structures at the tops of the walls surrounding a castle. Picture what you have seen in the movies where archers are at the top of the wall and firing arrows between open slots down on the attackers.astion: A tower or turret projecting from a wall or at the junction of two walls. Battlements: These are the structures at the tops of the walls surrounding a castle. Picture what you have seen in the movies where archers are at the top of the wall and firing arrows between open slots down on the attackers.
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- And my fortress-He has been to me as a fortress. The word fortress means a place of defense, a place so strengthened that an enemy could not approach it, or where one would be safe. Such fortresses were often constructed on the rocks or on hills, where those who fled there would be doubly safe. Compare Job 39:28. See also the notes at Isaiah 33:16.
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bastion Bastion definition, Fortification. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work. See more. Dictionary.com
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garrison The definition of a garrison is a military fort or a body of troops stationed at a military fort. An example of garrison is a group of army units. Garrison is defined as to provide or occupy with troops. An example of garrison is to send army troops to an area in need.
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Definitions &Translations An armoured, rotating gun installation, on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle. turret(Noun) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.
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BULWARK fortress, fort - a fortified defensive structure. merlon - a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement. bulwark, rampart, wall - an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; they stormed the ramparts of the city; they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down.
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- Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Fort is a business district in Mumbai, India. The area was the heart of the city during the 18th century. The area gets its name from the defensive fort, Fort George, built by the British East India Company around Bombay Castle.
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barrage LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. noun. A man faces a barrage of reporters. A man faces a barrage of reporters. The definition of barrage is a large volume of something, or a huge amount of things happening all at once.1  An example of a barrage is when 100 reporters all shoot questions at the president at the same time.arrage. noun. An artificial obstruction, such as a dam or irrigation channel, built in a watercourse to increase its depth or to divert its flow. French, from barrer, to bar, from barre, bar, from Old French; see bar 1.
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- 1. 1  Often, battlements. a parapet or cresting, originally defensive but later usually decorative, consisting of a regular alternation of merlons and crenels; crenelation. 2  a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through.
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Metal Roof Turrets Turrets can be described as a small tower. A building with a turret may also have towers, but the general difference is that a turret projects from the edge of a structure unlike a tower that continues to the ground. Sizes of turrets are limited to the structural integrity of the supporting structure.
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Definition of 'spire' The spire of a building such as a church is the tall pointed structure on the top.
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SCALE Hypernyms (scale is a kind of...): shield (a protective covering or structure). Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of scale): armor plate; armor plating; armour plate; plate armor; plate armour (specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire).
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- Definition for &QUOT;powder-magazine&QUOT; a location where dust is stored, as a… View More
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bracket 1 To furnish or support with a bracket or brackets. 2  To place within or as if within brackets. 3  To classify or group together. 4  To include or exclude by establishing specific boundaries.  To fire beyond and short of (a target) in order to determine artillery range.
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Definitions &Translations A redoubt is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, though others are constructed of stone or brick.
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- gunner ‎(plural gunners) ( 1 military) Artillery soldier, or such who holds private rank. 2  A person who operates a gun. ( 3 figuratively) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition. ( American football) A player on the kicking side whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner.
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tank tank. 1. a large container or structure for holding a liquid or gas. 2. an armored combat vehicle, moving on caterpillar treads and usu. armed with a cannon mounted inside a rotating turret. 3. a prison cell for more than one occupant, esp. for groups of new prisoners. 4. a natural or artificial pond, esp. for storing water.
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barrage barrage. n. 1. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) military the firing of artillery to saturate an area, either to protect against an attack or to support an advance. 2. an overwhelming and continuous delivery of something, as words, questions, or punches.arrage. n. 1. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) military the firing of artillery to saturate an area, either to protect against an attack or to support an advance. 2. an overwhelming and continuous delivery of something, as words, questions, or punches.
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rampart See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com. noun. 1. Fortification. 1  a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet.  such an elevation together with the parapet.
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- arsenal noun [C]. › a ​building or ​place where ​weapons and ​military ​equipment are made or ​stored, or a ​collection of ​weapons: the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey an arsenal of ​rockets.
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Definitions &Translations Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1. Protection from hostile observation and fire provided by an obstacle such as a hill, ridge, or bank. 2. A vertical distance by which a position is concealed from enemy observation.
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- Definition of BATTLEMENT for Kids. : a low wall (as at the top of a castle) with openings to shoot through.ull Definition of BATTLEMENT. : a parapet with open spaces that surmounts a wall and is used for defense or decoration. — bat·tle·ment·ed \-ˌmen-təd\ adjective.
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spire spire. n. 1. (Architecture) Also called: steeple a tall structure that tapers upwards to a point, esp one on a tower or roof or one that forms the upper part of a steeple. 2. (Botany) a slender tapering shoot or stem, such as a blade of grass.