different between turnout vs crossover

English

Etymology

turn +? out, from the phrasal verb.

Noun

turnout (plural turnouts)

1. The act of coming forth.
2. The number of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.
   • 2012, The Hyperink Team, Essential Tools For Managing A Restaurant Business, Hyperink Inc (?ISBN):

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

   • 2016, Alistair Jones, Britain and the European Union, Edinburgh University Press (?ISBN), page 212:

     A country which has always had an exceptionally good turnout for its elections to the European Parliament is Belgium. Every single election has had a turnout of over 90 per cent. The reason for this is that there is compulsory voting in Belgium.

3. (US) A place to pull off a road.

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

   • 2011, Douglas Steakley, Photographing Big Sur: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them, The Countryman Press (?ISBN), page 56:

     This is a location that should not be missed, especially during late afternoons in winter. This field can be photographed from the narrow driveway that leads down to the restaurant or from the turnout south of the restaurant, ...

4. (rail transport, chiefly US) A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.
5. (dated) A quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike.
6. (dated) A striker.
   • 2002, Brian Lewis, The Middlemost and the Milltowns (page 86)

     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. 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.

   • 1990, Thomas Ryder, The Carriage Journal (volume 27, number 4, pages 164-165)

     Occasionally turnouts would be seen driven randem in circus parades.

8. Net quantity of produce yielded.

Synonyms

• (roadside area): lay-by

Derived terms

• turnout gear

Translations

Anagrams

• out-turn, outturn

English

Etymology

From the verb phrase cross over.

Noun

crossover (countable and uncountable, plural crossovers)

1. A place where one thing crosses over another.
2. The means by which the crossing is made.
3. (genetics) The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
4. A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
5. An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent.

   Synonyms: CUV, XUV

6. (rail transport) A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
7. A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
8. (sports) An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.
9. (basketball) A crossover dribble.

Derived terms

• crossover cable
• crossover dribble
• crossover thrash
• crossover vote
• crossover voting

Translations

Adjective

crossover (not comparable)

1. (computing, of an Ethernet cable) Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.

Anagrams

• corvesors, overcross

French

Noun

crossover m (plural crossovers)

1. crossover (car)

Spanish

Noun

crossover m (plural crossovers)

1. crossover (car)