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Turret vs Spite - What's the difference?

turret | spite |

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

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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)
  • Synonyms

    * (military) cupola

    Derived terms

    {{der3, turret board , turret clock , turret head , turret lathe , turret ship}}

    Anagrams

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    spite

    English

    Etymology 1

    From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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.
  • He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
    They did it just for spite .
  • * Shakespeare
  • This is the deadly spite that angers.
  • (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
  • "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet

    Verb

    (spit)
  • To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
  • She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
  • (obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
  • The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
  • To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
  • Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.

    See also

    * malignant * malicious

    Etymology 2

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Notwithstanding; despite.
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