Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The number of people gathered for a particular event or purpose; attendance: The peace march attracted a large turnout.
- n. A number of things produced; output.
- n. The act or an instance of turning out.
- n. Chiefly British A labor strike.
- n. Chiefly British A laborer on strike.
- n. An array of equipment; an outfit.
- n. An outfit of a carriage with its horse or horses; equipage.
- n. A railroad siding.
- n. A widening in a highway to allow vehicles to pass or park.
- n. The rotation of a dancer's legs from the hip sockets in classical ballet.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From turn + out. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Given that ballots are due on May 22, the turnout is already relatively high for a House race.”
“But blacks midterm turnout is also traditionally low compared to white and older voters.”
“This kind of turnout is just an unbelievable thing.”
USATODAY.com - Crowd rocks Carrier Dome in greeting champion Orangemen
“Democrat votes outnumber Repub by about 2.5: 1 (so far) so it seems probable that R turnout is at least as high as D turnout, if not higher.”
“| Today's turnout is gonna screw up the data geeks »”
“As in every runoff election, it all comes down to which campaign does the better job of persuading its supporters to get out and vote again (in runoff elections, voter turnout is generally about 50 percent of what it was in the first election).”
“Matt Barreto, who does the LatinoDecisions tracking poll, told me that Latino turnout is running higher than expected and going even more to the Democrats than it did in 2008, when it was key for Barack Obama.”
The Washington Post: Will Latinos swing the West to Democrats?
“Gallup's polling has been pretty bearish on Dem prospects for quite some time, and reports from all over are indicating that turnout is pretty robust.”
The Washington Post: Dem enthusiasm down sharply since 2006, too
“Other speakers echoed Mandel's sentiment that Ehrlich could win if Democratic turnout is low and the Republican succeeds in energizing his voters.”
The Washington Post: Marvin Mandel, other Dems urge turnout for Republican Ehrlich
“* Want to know what turnout is expected to be like in key states?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘turnout’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
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brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir I planted and picked pineapples on the island of Lanai in Hawaii in 1975-1976. We met every morning at a place/gathering/equipment yard we called "turnout", where we clambered into the beds of huge farm trucks to be toted into the fields for the day's work. These same trucks were used to haul the picked fruit to the harbor to be sent to canneries on other islands. I still remember the sickly sweet smell of fermented pineapple... and love it. Sep 24, 2009
bilby "But large turnouts were expected at lunchtime rallies at many of the system's 10 campuses, fueled by anger over pay cuts, rising student fees and reduced class offerings."
- Larry Gordon, Protest planned for University of California system, latimes.com, 24 Sep 2009. Sep 24, 2009