turnout

1. (US) A place to pull off a road.Examples: "When towing a trailer, use the turnouts to let faster traffic pass."; "This is a location that should not be missed, especially during late afternoons in winter. This field can be photographed from the narrow driveway that leads down to the restaurant or from the turnout south of the restaurant, ..."Synonyms: lay-byUScountableuncountable

2. (rail transport, chiefly US) A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.Examples: "An article published recently in our associated weekly contemporary, The Railway Gazette, dealt at some length with the differences in construction and operation between civil and military railways, and explained that points and crossings are more commonly termed "turnouts" in military parlance."; "Crossing stations on single lines are laid out so that one line has a straight run through, and is signalled in each direction, avoiding the need to slow down to take the turnout into the loop."; "[...] the Welwyn bottleneck will be relaid with high-speed turnouts and resignalled for reversible working."UScountableuncountable

3. (dated) A quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike.countabledateduncountable

4. (dated) A striker.Examples: "Meanwhile on the eighteenth a party of soldiers dispersed a crowd in Over Darwen, and the following day a detachment came to protect the Hargreaves' large mill at Accrington, where one of the partners, anticipating a visit from the turnouts, had sworn in several hundred of the workpeople as special constables."countabledateduncountable

5. (ballet) Rotation of the leg at the hips which causes the feet and knees to turn outward, away from the front of the body.countableuncountable