English Dictionary

turnpike

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtɜː(ɹ)npaɪk/

名詞

スコットランド英語

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 turnstile.

日本語の意味

二本の棒が直角に交わり、柱やピンを軸に回転する構造を持つ扉。家畜の通行を妨げるために設計され、通行する際には人が棒の間を通過できる回転式門扉を意味する。

He lifted the turnpike and stepped through the crossed arms that swung on a post to keep the cattle out but allow a person to pass.

彼は回転式の柵を持ち上げ、杭で回る十字の腕の間をくぐり抜けた。それは家畜を通さず人だけが通れるようになっていた。

意味（1）

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 turnstile.

I moue vpon my axell, like a turne-pike, / Fit my face to the parties, and become / Straight one of them.

意味（2）

A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid,

[…] it was rumour’d that an order of the Government was to be issued out, to place Turn-pikes and Barriers on the Road, to prevent Peoples travelling;

意味（3）

(Scotland) A winding stairway.

Ramsay stabbed Ruthven accordingly and James lending his assistance they thrust the wounded man down the turnpike by which Ramsay had ascended Voices and steps were now heard advancing upwards and Ramsay knowing the accents called out to sir Thomas Erskine to come up the turnpike stair even to the head Sir Thomas Erskine was accompanied by sir Hugh Harris the king's physician a lame man and unfit for fighting Near the bottom of the turnpike sir Thomas Erskine in his ascent met Ruthven bleeding in the face and neck and called out Fie strike I this is the traitor l on which Alexander Ruthven was run through the body having only breath remaining to say Alas I had no blame of it

意味（4）

(military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.

意味（5）

A toll road, especially a toll expressway.

Eleven Pair of Mills ſtand within Four Miles of the Place, which bring a great Trade to it: But the Road is by this means ſo continually torn, that it is one of the worſt Turnpikes about London.

意味（6）

(mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.

In the monograph we discuss a number of results concerning turnpike properties in the calculus of variations and optimal control which were obtained by the author in the last ten years.

turnpikes （ plural ）