tourniquet — meaning in English
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English meaning
- roundabout noun A road junction where traffic circles around a central island instead of stopping at lights.
- tourniquet noun A tight band or device wrapped around a limb to stop severe bleeding by cutting off blood flow.
- turnstile noun A mechanical gate with rotating arms that lets one person through at a time, often after a ticket or payment.
Senses
tourniquet is used for these senses in English:
- French drop (magic) A sleight of hand technique by which a magician appears to pass an object from one hand to the other while in fact keeping it in the original hand.
- roundabout (chiefly, British) A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
- tourniquet (medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
- turnstile A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.
- whirligig beetle Any of various water beetles of the family Gyrinidae that swim rapidly in circles when alarmed.
roundabout — full definition
- noun A road junction where traffic circles around a central island instead of stopping at lights.
- noun A spinning platform in a playground that children ride on.
- adjective Indirect or longer than necessary; not going straight to the point.