turnike — meaning in English
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English meaning
- tourniquet noun A tight band or device wrapped around a limb to stop severe bleeding by cutting off blood flow.
- turnpike noun A major road, especially one that charges a toll to drive on it.
- turnstile noun A mechanical gate with rotating arms that lets one person through at a time, often after a ticket or payment.
Senses
turnike is used for these senses in English:
- tourniquet (medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
- turnpike A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
- 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.
turnpike — full definition
- noun A major road, especially one that charges a toll to drive on it.
- noun Historically, a barrier or gate across a road that was opened once a toll was paid.
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