Turnout vs Appetite - What's the difference?
turnout | appetite |
As nouns the difference between turnout and appetite is that turnout is attendance; crowd while appetite is desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
turnout English
Noun
( en noun)
attendance; crowd
- This restaurant had a pretty good turnout for a Wednesday night.
(US) a place to pull off a road
- When towing a trailer, use the turnouts to let faster traffic pass.
(rail transport, chiefly, US) a place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points
Synonyms
* (roadside area) lay-by
Anagrams
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appetite Noun
( en noun)
Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest
, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite . There is something humiliating about it.}}
Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
- If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
* (1800-1859)
- To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous.
The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
- The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.
A taste, preference.
Quotations
* 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle) in (The Adventure of Black Peter)
*: And I return with an excellent appetite . There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast. But I am prepared to bet that you will not guess the form that my exercise has taken.
Synonyms
( checksyns)
* craving, longing, desire, appetency, passion
Derived terms
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* appetitive
* appetizer
* appetizing
* appetizingly
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