turnout
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈtɜrnˌaʊt/
- US
:
ensanchamiento
- There's a turnout up at Summit Hill where the snowmobilers park.
- park in a turnout
- stop at a turnout
- car in a turnout
Examples
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The turnout was no more than a widening of the road, with no guardrails, no boulders to mark the edge.
Fiction book (2000) -
Charles stood in the gravel turnout near the beach access.
Fiction book (1999) -
...so she dropped me off at the turnout.
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Kevin pulled into a turnout and stopped.
Fiction book (1997) -
Anyone parked at the turnout?
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They weren't there, so I parked my car in the turnout and waited.
Fiction book (1994) -
Outside town, two Highway Patrol four-by-fours were pulled off at a turnout, but they hadn't opened up the CHAINS REQUIRED signs yet.
Fiction book (1992) -
At last, Retsler's blue sedan pulled into the turnout, spraying gravel like shotgun pellets.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the empty country halfway to Abilene, the tall fair man pulled off the highway and headed through vast fields and past dense woodlands until he found a dusty turnout probably ten miles from the nearest human being.
Fiction book (2002) -
We stopped at the turnout to enjoy the view of the mountains.
Synonyms
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2.8
A wider part of a road where cars can stop or park
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3.8
A place at the side of a road where cars can stop briefly
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5.9
A paved area beside a main road where vehicles stop briefly to rest or in an emergency
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6.8
A wider part of a road where cars can pull over
Compounds
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Turnout comes from the idea of a vehicle 'turning out' of the road to stop or let others go by. So a turnout is a widened part of the road where drivers can pull over.