Turn-out
- n. Net quantity of produce yielded.
- n. The act of coming forth; a leaving of houses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; — opposed to lockout.
- n. A short side track on a railroad, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch.
- n. That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage; as, a man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turn-out.
- n. The aggregate number of persons who have come out, as from their houses, for a special purpose.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.