Dome vs Turret - What's the difference?
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(architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola.
Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
(slang) head (including the meaning 'oral sex')
* Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome . - , "Right Said Fred"
* I got 5 Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome . - Ludacris
* Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome -- Ying Yang Twins, "Georgia Dome"
(obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
* Alexander Pope
Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
(crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
(label) a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle
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
(label) an armoured, rotating gun installation, on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle
(label) the elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation
(label) a tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes)
As nouns the difference between dome and turret
is that dome is while turret is (label) a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.dome
English
(wikipedia dome)Noun
(en noun)- a cake dome
- Approach the dome , the social banquet share.