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How to pronounce “turnpike”
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Pronunciation guide for turnpike
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of turnpike with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 4 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The story of a parent's transition and a son's redemption
and any day that you're on the New Jersey Turnpike.
- Definition summary
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
Example 1 of 4
How to pronounce turnpike
The story of a parent's transition and a son's redemption
and any day that you're on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “turnpike”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid.
- (Scotland) A winding stairway.
- (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- (chiefly US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
- (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
- [Verb]
- To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
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