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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

  1. noun A major road, especially one that charges a toll to drive on it.
  2. noun Historically, a barrier or gate across a road that was opened once a toll was paid.
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