turrets in English

noun
1
a small tower on top of a larger tower or at the corner of a building or wall, typically of a castle.
Many grotesque gargoyles with mysterious ochre stains around their mouths littered the castle's turrets and corners leering down at her.
2
a mollusk with a long, slender, pointed spiral shell, typically brightly colored and living in tropical seas.
noun
    gun turret

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1. The turrets are purely ornamental.

2. The fourth car has several turrets.

3. The main battery guns were arranged in four twin gun turrets: two superfiring turrets each fore and aft.

4. The defensive armament consisted of six remote-controlled retractable gun turrets, and fixed tail and nose turrets.

5. Spider + sniper turrets are also great for Beachheading

6. These turrets resemble the roofed Bartizans of castellated structures

7. HMS Dreadnought carried two wing turrets and three more on the centerline, while USS South Carolina mounted all four turrets in superfiring pairs on the centerline.

8. So blend the turrets and shadows there that all seems pendulous in air.

9. It is often surmounted by a mural crown with five or four turrets.

10. What does Castellated mean? Furnished with turrets and battlements in the style of a castle

11. Synonyms for Belfries include campaniles, carillons, cupolas, domes, head, minarets, spires, steeples, towers and turrets

12. Synonyms for Barbicans include fortification, keeps, strongholds, towers, turrets, bartizans, forts, bulwarks, bastions and defence

13. Barbettes were just as heavy as turrets; they just had a different distribution of weight

14. Are Bolty turrets okay for compounds? Placed on top? What are the best attachments and ammos

15. It was instead decided to sink the gun turrets and spare barrels with the rest of the ship.

16. For evaluation purposes these were electrically driven BIX and BX turrets, two each built by Vickers and Armstrongs.

17. 24 Its round towers and conical turrets peep unexpectedly through the trees on the hills north of Cardiff.

18. One of Noshiro's gun turrets was put out of action temporarily by the attack and ten crewmen killed.

19. At salvo 18, when Prince of Wales turned away, two of "Y" turrets guns were in operation.

20. However, design issues with the Furutaka class resulted in modifications to include double turrets and an aircraft catapult.

21. Six near misses killed 28 crewmen and injured 40 others, disabling her No.2 and No.3 gun turrets.

22. Castellated (adj) furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle Etymology: [LL

23. And check out the circular towers - the decorative turrets which don't reach as far as the ground - called Bartisans

24. At Salvo 18, when Prince of Wales turned away, both (2) of 'B' turrets guns were in operation.

25. With a Mobile Builder, turrets and other structures can be built on adjacent enemy planets; that strategy is called Beachheading

26. The combined firepower from both turrets will give Zumwalt-class destroyers the firepower equivalent to 18 conventional M-198 howitzers.

27. From 8 March on, the battlecruiser tested the capabilities of aircraft launched from platforms mounted over 'P' and 'Q' turrets.

28. Two H/PJ-17 30 mm remote controlled gun turrets at amidship work as gun-CIWS for the ship.

29. Canted: Having cants or angles: in architecture , applied to pillars, turrets, or towers the plan of which is a polygon.

30. This French castle may have slate-tiled turrets and a castellated tower but its interior is more like Philippe Starck.

31. The turrets were able to train 150 degrees in both directions from the centerline, which enabled a wide arc of fire.

32. Quirky elements like the reward of ‘Cake’ for success, Anthropomorphous storage crates, lonely machine-gun turrets and wry in-jokes.

33. The main battery propellant magazines were placed above shell rooms, with the exception of the centerline turrets of Nassau and Westfalen.

34. The architectural style is that of Scottish Baronial which is defined by: uneven roof lines, gables, and small turrets called Bartizans

35. During World War II both Allied and Axis forces used acrylic glass for submarine periscopes and aircraft windshields, canopies, and gun turrets.

36. After 1945, Bulgaria incorporated its surviving Panzer IVs into defensive bunkers as gunpoints on its border with Turkey, along with Soviet T-34 turrets.

37. The bulwark terrace features six Bartizans or projected turrets, these have lookout windows and ribbed cupolas at the vertices of the bulwark's polygonal form

38. During the war the turrets were modified to increase their maximum elevation to 16°, but this only extended the range to 20,435 yards (18,686 m).

39. The ship's superstructure was cut down nearly entirely; Hessen retained only a single funnel, a tower foremast, and the two armored barbettes for the main battery turrets.

40. Part RTS, part tabletop strategy, Armed! puts you in command of a fleet of futuristic tanks, turrets, and robots with one mission: infiltrate enemy territory, …

41. Lauriston Castle was originally a four-storey, stone L plan tower house, with a circular stair tower, with two storey angle turrets complete with gun loops.

42. In 1933, a single TB-3 4M-17F was streamlined with removal of turrets and bomb shackles, covering of all openings, and fitting of wheel spats.

43. Admiral Jellicoe's investigation blamed the loss of the ships on faulty cordite handling procedures that allowed fires in the turrets or hoists to reach the ships' magazines.

44. Prince of Wales was forced to disengage by a combination of damage from German hits and mechanical failures in her guns and turrets after Hood was sunk.

45. 294) supposes that the name was given to the turrets or Battlements here referred to, because they had some resemblance to the rays of the sun.

46. Note the crenulations (uniform notches in the top of walls for shooting imaginary arrows), lancet windows (narrow and arched) and Bartizans (small protruding turrets supported by corbelling

47. They have a maximum range of Base Damage * 10000km Their rate of fire is Base Damage / Capacitor Recharge Rate * 5s Plasma Carronades cannot be mounted in turrets Usage

48. ‘Then she mounted the Battlement and stood atop the roof, raving.’ Origin Late Middle English from Old French bataillier ‘fortify with movable defense turrets’, possibly related to battle .

49. Cheshire's survivability is one of her weakpoints.Her hitpool being average, she stands out with her raised citadel which extends from the forward turrets all the way to …

50. ‘Then she mounted the Battlement and stood atop the roof, raving.’ Origin Late Middle English from Old French bataillier ‘fortify with movable defence turrets’, possibly related to battle .