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Dictionary: turn·out   (tûrn'out') pronunciation
n.
  1. The number of people gathered for a particular event or purpose; attendance: The peace march attracted a large turnout.
  2. A number of things produced; output.
  3. The act or an instance of turning out.
  4. Chiefly British.
    1. A labor strike.
    2. A laborer on strike.
  5. An array of equipment; an outfit.
  6. An outfit of a carriage with its horse or horses; equipage.
  7. A railroad siding.
  8. A widening in a highway to allow vehicles to pass or park.
  9. The rotation of a dancer's legs from the hip sockets in classical ballet.

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noun

  1. Things needed for a task, journey, or other purpose: accouterment (often used in plural), apparatus, equipment, gear, material (used in plural), materiel, outfit, paraphernalia, rig, tackle, thing (used in plural). See means.
  2. A set or style of clothing: costume, dress, garb, guise, habiliment (often used in plural), outfit. Informal getup, rig. See put on/take off.

Antonyms: turnout
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n

Definition: amount produced
Antonyms: origin, resource, source


Political Dictionary: turnout
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The proportion of the registered electorate who vote in a given election. Turnout is both important and difficult to measure where registration is itself a costly process, especially in the United States. At the other extreme, regimes with compulsory voting (such as Australia), still have turnout well below 100 per cent, as the compulsory-voting laws are rarely enforced. There has been a general tendency in a number of countries including the United Kingdom for turnout to decline since a peak in the 1950s. Some view this with alarm, others do not, either because too high a turnout has been argued to place too great a strain of conflicting demands on the political system, or because rational economic men and women who know that their own vote is highly unlikely to influence the election do not bother to vote. Some weak confirmation of the last view is provided by the association between turnout and the expected closeness of the election; but this explanation cannot explain turnouts of over 70 per cent in elections which nobody expected to be close, such as the British General Election of 1983. The collapse of turnout in that of 2001, when party policies were similar and everyone expected Labour to win, is, however, rationally explicable in this way.

Dictionary of Dance: turnout
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A fundamental requirement of all classical ballet, which involves rotating the legs and feet outwards from the hips so that the feet point sideways while the hips remain facing forward. Turnout was declared an essential element for dance by Blasis in 1820, although it had been around for more than 200 years before his pronouncement. The use of turnout was documented in Feuillet's Chorégraphie (1700), which codified the five positions of the feet. The idea of turnout is to give the lower body greater freedom of movement in every direction. Turnout depends on flexibility in the hip socket, which is developed over many years of careful ballet training.

Wikipedia: Turnout
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Turnout may refer to:

  • Turnout (ballet), a rotation of the leg which comes from the hips, causing the knee and foot to turn outward, away from the center of the body
  • Voter turnout, the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election
  • A lay-by, turnout or pullout, a roadside parking or rest area for drivers
  • A passing place, turnout or pullout, a spot on a single track road where vehicles can pull over to let others pass
  • Railroad switch (US), turnout or set of points, a mechanical installation enabling trains to be guided from one railway track to another
  • Coach (carriage) or carriage together with the horses, harness and attendants
  • Bunker gear or turnout gear, the protective gear worn by firefighters



Translations: Turnout
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fremmøde, antal tilskuere, mødeprocent, valgdeltagelse, stemmeprocent

Nederlands (Dutch)
opkomst, verschijning (qua kleding), opruimbeurt, producie

Français (French)
n. - participation, assistance, nettoyage, (Ind) production, tenue

Deutsch (German)
n. - Beteiligung, Produktion, Ausstattung, Aufmachung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - προσέλευση (σε συγκέντρωση), παραγωγή, πλήθος συνάθροισης

Italiano (Italian)
partecipazione, produzione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - resultado (m), reunião (f), concurso (m), via lateral (f)

Русский (Russian)
публика, аудитория, собравшиеся

Español (Spanish)
n. - concurrencia, público, presentación, atuendo, huelga, producción, productividad, rotación, apartadero

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - utryckning, uppställning, anslutning, deltagande, produktion(smängd), strejk, strejkande, sidospår, urröjning, tömning, utstyrsel, utrustning, kläder, ekipage

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
聚集的人群, 产量, 出席者

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 聚集的人群, 產量, 出席者

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 집합, 동맹 파업, 생산액

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 出席者, 観客, 生産高, 大掃除, 身なり, 装備, 車の待避所, 人出, 待避線

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عامل مضرب, أضراب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מספר הנוכחים, המצביעים וכו', תפוקת הייצור בתקופה נתונה, שביתה, מערכת ציוד, לבוש וכו', קטע רחב (בכביש)‬


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