What's the difference between tollgate and turnpike?
Tollgate
Definition:
(n.) A gate where toll is taken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tollgates can be torn down, financial products can be banned, tax havens dismantled, lobbies tamed, and patents rejected.
(2) Using technology funded by taxpayers, they build tollgates between you and other people’s free content and all the while pay almost no tax on their earnings.
(3) Photograph: Chris Arnade When the tollgate lifted, we joined the traffic heading west into New Jersey and she changed her mind.
(4) The feudal lord of medieval times did that by building a tollgate along a road and making everybody who passed by pay.
Turnpike
Definition:
(n.) A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1.
(n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.
(n.) A turnpike road.
(n.) A winding stairway.
(n.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
(v. t.) To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the early hours of 2 May 1973, Assata Shakur was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper named James Harper, allegedly for driving with a faulty rearlight.
(2) In doing so it creates a tollbooth economy: a system of corporate turnpikes, operated by companies with effective monopolies.
(3) The number of corporal accidents and deaths were 22.6% and 37.2%, respectively, on turnpikes, 31.3% and 47.2%, on rural roads, and 46.1% and 15.6% on urban networks.
(4) Governor Christie (@GovChristie) There are approximately 3,300 plows and spreaders out on New Jersey highways, including the Turnpike, GSP and ACE.
(5) Photograph: Alamy New Jersey, the Garden State, is often better known for its turnpikes and suburban sprawl than its green spaces.
(6) The New Jersey Turnpike was fine, but that was most likely because it’s a toll road with its own source of funding.
(7) Paul Jones, 24, a youth hockey coach from Warminster in the Philadelphia suburbs, was on his way to a game in Lancaster when he got stuck – along with his fiancee, another coach and three players – in a major backup on the turnpike.
(8) New communications demanded middlemen and dealers, hackney coachmen, canal and turnpike engineers, technicians, instrument makers and cartographers.
(9) But he also zeroes in on why all this is bad news for millions of Americans, in a passage that focuses on the Pennsylvania turnpike, almost sold by governor Ed Rendell after a bidding war that included the Spanish corporation Abertis and Goldman Sachs.
(10) Taibbi quotes a friend who worked for a Gulf-region sovereign wealth fund, apparently offered a stake in the turnpike by American investment bankers, and also makes reference to a small Pennsylvanian businessman called Robert Lukens.
(11) Speeding was responsible for one out of six deaths on turnpikes and national roads, one out of two on urban and rural roads.
(12) Industry became our forte from the infrastructure provided by the installing of a nationwide turnpike system from the 1730s, through the construction of the Iron Bridge in the 1770s, to the first public railway in 1803.
(13) She described: A long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road.
(14) Heavy snow in the Philadelphia area led to a number of accidents, including a fatal crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that spawned fender-benders involving 50 cars, stranding some motorists for up to seven hours.
(15) Squares were gated, streets were controlled by turnpikes.