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Thruway vs Turnpike - What's the difference?

thruway | turnpike |

As nouns the difference between thruway and turnpike

is that thruway is alternative form of lang=en while 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.

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.

thruway

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, nonstandard)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2012 , year_published= , edition=Revised, 2012 , editor=Office of the Federal Register , author= , title=Code of Federal Regulations, Title 23 , chapter= citation , genre=Transport , publisher=Government Printing Office , isbn=9780160907241 , page=337 , passage= … not less than 20 miles per hour on all portions of the thruway system. }}

    turnpike

    English

    Noun

    (en 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 turnstile.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • I move upon my axle like a turnpike .
  • 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.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
  • (US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
    • (Daniel Defoe)
  • A road that was formerly a toll road.

    • Verb

    (turnpik)
  • To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
    • (Knowles)
    ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

    (turnpik)
  • A young female gymnast