Turn

[tɜːn] or [tɝn]

Definition

(noun.) taking a short walk out and back; 'we took a turn in the park'.

(noun.) the act of turning away or in the opposite direction; 'he made an abrupt turn away from her'.

(noun.) the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; 'he took a turn to the right'.

(noun.) (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession; 'it is my turn'; 'it is still my play'.

(noun.) a favor for someone; 'he did me a good turn'.

(noun.) an unforeseen development; 'events suddenly took an awkward turn'.

(noun.) (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive.

(verb.) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; 'The weather turned nasty'; 'She grew angry'.

(verb.) change color; 'In Vermont, the leaves turn early'.

(verb.) let (something) fall or spill from a container; 'turn the flour onto a plate'.

(verb.) shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel; 'turn the legs of the table'; 'turn the clay on the wheel'.

(verb.) change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense; 'Turn towards me'; 'The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face'; 'She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs'.

(verb.) pass to the other side of; 'turn the corner'; 'move around the obstacle'.

(verb.) to send or let go; 'They turned away the crowd at the gate of the governor's mansion'.

(verb.) cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; 'turn a page of a book'.

(verb.) cause to move around or rotate; 'turn a key'; 'turn your palm this way'.

(verb.) move around an axis or a center; 'The wheels are turning'.

(verb.) alter the functioning or setting of; 'turn the dial to 10'; 'turn the heat down'.

(verb.) accomplish by rotating; 'turn a somersault'; 'turn cartwheels'.

(verb.) direct at someone; 'She turned a smile on me'; 'They turned their flashlights on the car'.

(verb.) cause to move along an axis or into a new direction; 'turn your face to the wall'; 'turn the car around'; 'turn your dance partner around'.

(verb.) get by buying and selling; 'the company turned a good profit after a year'.

(verb.) cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics; 'The princess turned the frog into a prince by kissing him'; 'The alchemists tried to turn lead into gold'.

(verb.) become officially one year older; 'She is turning 50 this year'.

(verb.) channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something; 'The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction'; 'people turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium'.

Checker: Sophia--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.

(v. t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.

(v. t.) To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.

(v. t.) To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote.

(v. t.) To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.

(v. t.) To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.

(v. t.) Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt.

(v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.

(v. t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.

(v. t.) To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.

(v. i.) To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.

(v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.

(v. i.) To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.

(v. i.) To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.

(v. i.) To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.

(v. i.) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.

(v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.

(v. i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.

(v. i.) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.

(v. i.) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.

(v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.

(v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

(v. i.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

(n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.

(n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.

(n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.

(n.) A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.

(n.) Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.

(n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.

(n.) Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.

(n.) Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.

(n.) A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.

(n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.

(n.) A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.

(n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.

(n.) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.

(n.) Monthly courses; menses.

(n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Revolve, move round, turn round, make go round.[2]. Deviate, cast, deflect, inflect, bend, incline.[3]. Reverse the position of, turn over.[4]. Shape (as in a lathe), form, mould, fashion.[5]. Change, alter, transmute, metamorphose, transform, convert.[6]. Translate, construe, render.[7]. Direct, apply.[8]. Acidify, make sour, make acid.

v. n. [1]. Revolve, whirl, turn round.[2]. Be directed.[3]. Deviate, incline, bend.[4]. Be changed, be transformed, be converted.[5]. Grow, become.[6]. Become sour, become acid.[7]. Depend, hinge, pivot, hang, be dependent.

n. [1]. Revolution, gyration, rotation, round, bout.[2]. Deviation, deflexion, flexion, flexure, crook, bend, bending, elbow, curvature, sweep, meandering, sinuosity, winding, twist, twisting, twining, turning, twirl, twirling.[3]. Short walk, short excursion.[4]. Change, variation, alteration, vicissitude.[5]. Occasion, opportunity, opportuneness, hap, chance, opening, juncture, crisis, conjuncture, nick of time, golden opportunity.[6]. Phase, form, fashion, manner, guise, shape, figure, configuration, conformation, frame, cast, cut, set, build, make, trim, mould, stamp, feature, aspect, complexion, character.[7]. Act, action, deed, office.[8]. Aptitude, forte, bias, talent, gift, endowment, genius, proclivity, proneness, propensity.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Revolution, rotation, recurrence, change, alteration, vicissitude, winding,bend, deflection, curve, alternation, opportunity, occasion, time, deed,office, act, treatment, purpose, requirement, convenience, talent, gift,tendency, character, exigence, crisis, form, cast, shape, manner, mold,fashion, cut

ANT:Stability, fixity, immobility, stationariness, unchangeableness, uniformity,rectilinearity, indeflection, continuity, untimeliness, incognizance,oversight, independence, nonrequirement, malformation, shapelessness

SYN:Round, shape, mold, adapt, spin, reverse, deflect, alter, transform, convert,metamorphose, revolve, rotate, hinge, depend, deviate, incline, diverge,decline, change

ANT:Misshape, misadapt, perpetuate, stabilitate, stereotype, {[nx]?}, arrest,continue, proceed

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Definition

v.i. to whirl round: to hinge: to depend: to issue: to take a different direction or tendency: to become by a change hence to rebel: to return: to be fickle: to result: to be shaped on the lathe: to sour: to become giddy: to be nauseated: to change from ebb to flow or from flow to ebb: to become inclined in the other direction.—v.t. to cause to revolve: to reverse: to pass round: to direct apply: to send drive: to fold remake: to translate: to make sour: to change the position or the direction of: to nauseate to make giddy: to direct the mind to: to infatuate or make mad: to cause to return with profit: to transfer: to convert: to form in a lathe: to shape: to round: to adapt: to blunt.—n. act of turning: new direction or tendency disposition: a walk to and fro: chance: a turning-point crisis: (mus.) a melodic embellishment consisting of a principal tone with two auxiliary tones lying respectively next above and below it: a spell of work a job: (coll.) a nervous shock: change: a winding: a bend: form: manner: opportunity convenience: act of kindness or malice: a type turned upside down owing to a temporary want of the proper letter.—ns. Turn′about a merry-go-round; Turn′back the strap from the hames to the hip-strap; Turn′buckle a form of coupling so arranged as to regulate the length or tension of the connected parts; Turn′-cap a chimney-cowl rotating on a vertical axis; Turn′coat one who turns his coat—that is abandons his principles or party; Turn′cock one who turns on the water for the mains regulates the fire-plugs &c. of a water company.—adj. Turn′-down folded down.—ns. Turn′er one who or that which turns: a tumbler gymnast esp. a member of the German Turnvereine or gymnastic bodies instituted by F. L. Jahn in 1811; Turn′ery art of turning or of shaping by a lathe: things made by a turner also the place where these are made: ornamentation by means of the lathe; Turn′ing a winding: deviation from the proper course: turnery the art of shaping wood metal ivory or other hard substances into forms having a curved (generally circular or oval) transverse section and also of engraving figures composed of curved lines upon a smooth surface by means of a turning-lathe: (mil.) a manœuvre for turning an enemy's position: in pottery the shaping of a vase: (pl.) chips; Turn′ing-lathe a lathe used by turners; Turn′ing-point the point on which a question turns and which decides the case: a grave and critical period; Turn′ing-rest a support on a lathe serving as a fulcrum for a hand turning-tool; Turn′ing-saw a thin-bladed saw contrived for cutting curved wood for chair-backs &c.—also Sweep-saw Frame-saw Scroll-saw; Turn′ing-steel a piece of hard bar-steel for turning the edge of a tool &c.; Turn′ing-tool a tool for shaping the cutting edges of the tools used in seal-engraving; Turn′key one who turns the keys in a prison: a warder; Turn′-out the act of coming forth: a strike: a striker: a crowd of spectators: a carriage and its horses: quantity of produce yielded.—adj. Turn′over made to be turned over or reversed.—n. act of turning over upset overthrow: a small pie made by turning half of the circular crust over the other which has been covered with fruit &c.: an apprentice turned over to a new master to complete his apprenticeship: the total amount of the sales in a business for a specified time.—ns. Turn′pike a gate set across a road to stop those liable to toll: a turnpike-road—originally a frame consisting of two cross-bars armed with pikes and turning on a post; Turn′pike-man a man who collects tolls at a tollgate; Turn′pike-road a road on which turnpikes or tollgates are established; Turn′-screw a screw-driver; Turn′skin a werewolf; Turn′spit one who turns a spit: a person engaged in some menial occupation: a long-bodied short-legged dog employed to drive a wheel by which roasting-spits were turned—closely allied to the Dachshund (q.v.); Turn′stile a revolving frame in a footpath which prevents the passage of cattle but allows the passage of one person at a time; Turn′stile-reg′ister a device for recording the number of persons passing through a turnstile; Turn′stone a small grallatorial bird intermediate between the true plovers and sandpipers so called from its habit of turning over pebbles on the beach in search of food; Turn′-ta′ble (same as Traverse-table); Turn′-up a disturbance: something that appears unexpectedly.—Turn about to move the face or front to another quarter; Turn about Turn and turn about alternately; Turn a or the corner (see Corner); Turn a deaf ear to to ignore; Turn adrift to unmoor and let float away: to cast off; Turn again to return: to make a stand; Turn against to use to the injury of: to render hostile: to rebel against; Turn an enemy's flank line or position to manœuvre so as to attack an enemy in the rear: to outwit; Turn a penny (see Penny); Turn around one's finger to make any one subservient to one's will; Turn aside to avert; to deviate: to avert the face; Turn away to dismiss from service to discharge: to avert to look in another direction: to deviate to depart from; Turn back to cause to retreat: to return; Turn down to double or fold down: to hide the face of: to lessen or lower; Turn forth to expel; Turn in to bend inward: to enter: (coll.) to go to bed; Turn into to become by a process of change; Turn off to deviate: to dismiss: to divert: to complete achieve by labour: to shut off: (slang) to hang; Turn on to set running (as water): to depend on: to confront in fight; Turn one's hand to to apply one's self; Turn one's head or brain to make one giddy: to fill with pride or conceit; Turn out to drive out to expel: to put to pasture (as cattle): to make for market or for use: to project: to prove in the result: to muster: to leave one's work to take part in a strike: (coll.) to get out of bed; Turn over to roll over: to change sides: to sell goods to the amount of: to examine by turning the leaves; Turn round to reverse one's position or party; Turn the back to flee to retreat; Turn the back upon to quit with contempt to forsake; Turn the edge of to blunt; Turn the scale to decide determine; Turn the stomach to nauseate; Turn to to have recourse to: to point to: to result in; Turn turtle (see Turtle); Turn up to point upwards: to appear happen: place with face up: to bring the point uppermost: to refer to in a book; Turn upon to cast back upon retort; Turn upside down to throw into complete confusion.—Be turned of to have advanced beyond—of age; By turns one after another: at intervals; Ill turn an injurious act: a change for the worse; In turn in order of succession; Not to turn a hair to be quite undisturbed or unaffected; On the turn at the turning-point changing; Serve a turn to answer the purpose; Take one's turn to occupy one's allotted place; Take turns to take each the other's place alternately; To a turn exactly perfectly.

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