Turret vs Spite - What's the difference?
turret | spite |
(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)
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
As nouns the difference between turret and spite
is that turret is (label) a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle while spite is ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.As a verb spite is
to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.As a preposition spite is
notwithstanding; despite.turret
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (military) cupolaDerived terms
{{der3, turret board , turret clock , turret head , turret lathe , turret ship}}Anagrams
*spite
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Etymology 1
From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.Noun
(en-noun)- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite .
- This is the deadly spite that angers.
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
Verb
(spit)- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.