different between turret vs castellated

English

Etymology

From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. See tower.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: t?r'?t, IPA^(key): /?t???t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t???t/ (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• Rhymes: -???t

Noun

turret (plural turrets)

1. (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
   • 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8:

     There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.

2. (historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
3. (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
4. (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
5. (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.

Synonyms

• (military): cupola

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Rutter, rutter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kast?le?t?d/

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin castell?tus (“fortified, castellate”) + -ed (forming past participles). Equivalent to the past participle of castellate but attested earlier than other uses of the verb.

Adjective

castellated (not comparable)

1. Castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.
   • 1686, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Stafford-shire, Ch. x, p. 448:

     ...A Castellated mansion...

   • 2004, Colm Toibin, The Master, p. 2:

     Finally he walked slowly into a vast Italian space, with towers and castellated roofs, and a sky the colour of dark blue ink, smooth and consistent.
2. (engineering) Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.
   • 1904, Alexander Bell Filson Young, The Complete Motorist, Ch. iv, p. 74:

     Castellated nuts are used throughout, with split pins.

3. Castled: having or furnished with castles.
   • 1809, Robert Ker Porter, Travelling Sketches in Russia & Sweden, Vol. I, Ch. iv, p. 30:

     ...This castellated island...

4. (rare) Housed or kept in a castle.
   • 1837, Walter Savage Landor, Works, Vol. II, p. 317:

     His unbiassed justice... struck horror into the heart of every castellated felon.

Derived terms

• castellated nut

Related terms

• castle, castellation

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin castellum (“cistern”).

Adjective

castellated (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of enclosed, when used for fountains, cisterns, &c.
   • 1598, John Stow, A Suruay of London, p. 149:

     A fayre Conduite of sweete water, castellated in the middest of that warde and streete...

References

• "castellated, adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press