turnout

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election)

   the turnout for the rally

2. 2
   noun

   the group that gathers together for a particular occasion

   a large turnout for the meeting

3. 3
   noun

   The number or proportion of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.

   Depending on the location of a restaurant, weekdays may equally experience low turnout.

4. 4
   noun

   A place to pull off a road.

   When towing a trailer, use the turnouts to let faster traffic pass.

5. 5
   noun

   A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.

   An article published recently in our associated weekly contemporary, The Railway Gazette, dealt at some length with the differences in construction and operation between civil and military railways, and explained that points and crossings are more commonly termed "turnouts" in military parlance.

6. 6
   noun

   A striker.

   Meanwhile on the eighteenth a party of soldiers dispersed a crowd in Over Darwen, and the following day a detachment came to protect the Hargreaves' large mill at Accrington, where one of the partners, anticipating a visit from the turnouts, had sworn in several hundred of the workpeople as special constables.

7. 7
   noun

   That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage.

   A man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turnout.

8. 8
   noun

   The act of putting out to pasture.

   Duties include feeding and turnout of horses.

Etymology

Deverbal from turn out.