(n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rotation of a permanent pacemaker can result in a capstan effect, and the lead is drawn out of the right ventricle.
(2) The same holds for pulley- and capstan-form toric surfaces.
Turret
Definition:
(n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
(n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
(n.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.
(n.) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(2) You'll pedal through picture-perfect fishing villages, past medieval turreted towers and traverse Lahemaa, Estonia's first national park ( visitestonia.com ).
(3) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(4) As the sun set over the cratered fields around Debaltseve, a group of pro-Russia Cossack fighters were retrieving boxes of anti-tank artillery rounds and two armoured vehicles left by Kiev’s forces on the side of the Rostov-Kharkiv highway, which was littered with mangled cars and turret-less tanks.
(5) In July 1965, he escaped from Wandsworth prison, "the hate factory" in south-west London, through the ingenious use of a rope ladder and a furniture lorry with a specially constructed turret that had been parked outside the jail.
(6) Accessible only on foot, the Needles section of the Canyonlands national park has pink and creamy turrets, chimneys, gullies, mysterious canyons and weird formations.
(7) The Turret nebuliser proved to be the most efficient, but several other brands would also be acceptable if used with a powerful compressor.
(8) A method of measuring the amount of slack inherent in the system of Edgewise brackets and archwires is presented, and some related problems concerning the use of turrets discussed.
(9) We started behind Helghast lines, at the top of a cliff, looking down on a forest in which a pall of smoke indicated a downed aircraft which we had to reach; another objective involved disabling anti-aircraft turrets.
(10) This new work was described by the author as "an evening of high drung and slarrit" which, "with its turrets and its high-jointed gables, should have a particular appeal for anyone approaching it for the first time with a lasso".
(11) Due to limitation of measuring diaphragm of turret in the microscope, some extra large cell could not be included in it and was excluded from the measurement.
(12) Britain’s previous prime minister was uneasy, a sentiment that was felt – it later turned out – all the way up to the highest turrets in the land.
(13) Ten years ago the National Trust bought the redbrick house studded with romantic details including turrets, stained glass, window seats, a miniature minstrels' gallery and a well, and opened it to the public for the first time.
(14) Our understanding of the daily realities for LGBT people in the UK does not emanate from a 14-year-old in Motherwell, or a still-closeted retiree in Penarth, but from metropolitan professionals depicting gay life from a turret of privilege.
(15) The highlights of AML major wartime projects are presented: development and production of breathing oxygen equipment, including pressure breathing for use above 50,000 ft; evaluation of insulative and electrically heated flying clothing, useful for confined cockpit space and for use at first in B-17 gun turrets; development and evaluation of anti-G suits for the new, high-performance, fighter aircraft; the role of anthropometry in design of aircraft cockpits and personal flying equipment; Laboratory tests of human tolerance to explosive decompression in new Air Force pressurized bombers (B-29) and future fighters (P-80 series), and actual flight tests in the Lockheed Constellation and Boeing C-97.
(16) Rats receiving milk from cows fed Turret RSM developed larger thyroid than those receiving milk from control-fed cows.
(17) Bunkrooms are bright and spacious, double rooms are available, and the fetching rooftop bar overlooks red-tiled roofs and Habsburg turrets.
(18) These differences may be ascribed partly to the smaller droplet size from the Turret system and partly to the higher nebulisation rate from the more powerful Maxi compressor.
(19) • Katie Mulgrew is at the Turret, Gilded Balloon, until 24 August.
(20) The site remains filled with gradually decaying Santa figurines, rusty reindeer rides and crumbling candy cane turrets, making it feel more eerie than festive.