Turnpike vs Road - What's the difference?
turnpike | road |
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.
* Ben Jonson
A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid; a tollgate.
(Scotland) A winding stairway.
(military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
(US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
A road that was formerly a toll road.
To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
A young female gymnast
(obsolete) The act of riding on horseback.
(obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
(nautical, often, in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor.
* 1630 , , True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 38:
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions.
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road .}}
* , chapter=1
, title= (figuratively) A path chosen in life or career.
* Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing (1964).
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, tiutle= An underground tunnel in a mine.
(US) A railway; (British) a single railway track.
(obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between turnpike and road
is that turnpike is 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 while road is (obsolete) the act of riding on horseback.As a verb turnpike
is to form (a road, etc) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.turnpike
English
Noun
(en noun)- I move upon my axle like a turnpike .
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Daniel Defoe)
Verb
(turnpik)- (Knowles)
Noun
(turnpik)road
English
(wikipedia road)Noun
(en noun)- There dwelt a salvage nation, which did live / Of stealth and spoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […].
- There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in the Roade , than any thing else [...].
citation
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}
- Where, then, is the road to peace?
Moldova 0-5 England, passage=Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
- With easy roads he came to Leicester.