turn
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
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finance
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geometry
government
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mathematics
media
medicine
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performing-arts
poker
politics
printing
professional-wrestling
publishing
sciences
soccer
sports
theater
war
wrestling
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nos
Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos
Proto-Hellenic *tórnos
Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor.
Latin tornus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin tornōbor.
Proto-West Germanic *turnēn
Old English turnian
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Latin tornō
Old French tornerbor.
Middle English turnen
English turn
From Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *turnēn (“to turn, lathe”) (also the source of German turnen and its derivatives) and Old French torner (“to turn”), both from Latin tornāre (“to round off, turn in a lathe”), from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “turning-lathe: a tool used for making circles”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist, bore”). Cognate with Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist, wind”), whence English throw. Displaced native Middle English wenden from Old English wendan (see wend), and Middle English trenden from Old English trendan (see trend), among several other terms.
Inflected forms:
form: turns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: turning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: turned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: turned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: turnt
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: turnt
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: turn
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: turn
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: turned
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: turn
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: turnest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: turned
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: turnedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: turns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: turneth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: turned
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: turn
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: turned
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: turn
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: turned
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: turn
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: turning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: turned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: turnt
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: turns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
person
examples: the Earth turns
turn on the spot
"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]."
We didn't start the fire / It was always burning / Since the world's been turning
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Turn the knob clockwise.
It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She turned right at the corner.
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railroad station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She turned the table legs with care and precision.
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: […]the Poets pen turnes them to ſhapes,[…]
[…]he was perfectly well turned for the occupations of trade and commerce.
His limbs how turn’d! how broad his ſhoulders ſpread!
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Add sugar and butter, then turn the mixture into a dish.
The farmer turned the cows into a field.
You were not wont to turn young and beautiful suppliants from your office door. What is the real reason of this professional reluctance on your part?
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: turn the bed covers;  turn the pages
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: turn to page twenty;  turn through the book
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I fell off my bike and turned my ankle severely.
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make a non-linear physical movement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: become, get, go, come, fall, grow, wax
The leaves turn brown in autumn.
When I asked him for the money, he turned nasty.
Charlie turns six on September 29.
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.
The former-slaves-turned-abolitionists Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano were the chief organizers of the Sons of Africa.
The midfielder turned provider moments later, his exquisite reverse pass perfectly weighted for Cisse to race on to and slide past Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic.
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The hillside behind our house isn't generally much to look at, but once all the trees turn it's gorgeous.
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Midas made everything turn to gold.  He turned into a monster every full moon.
At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: This milk has turned; it smells awful.
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: to turn cider or wine
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: How long ago was he turned?
His companions had turned him on purpose. Annie, bless her heart, was immune.
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Bruce Banner turns when he is angry: he becomes the Hulk, an incredibly powerful green monster.
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
offensive
slang
sometimes
transitive
examples: We may not be made gay or lesbian in the sense of being “turned” by some error in parenting or child rearing, but we are certainly biologically made and raised (most of us) by straights.
An old homophobic fantasy has it that a gay man or lesbian can be “turned” by a fulfilling sexual encounter with someone of the opposite sex
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The decision turns on a single fact.
[…] Conditions of Peace certainly do turn upon Events of War.
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The prisoners turned on the warden.
‘You little Fool!’ returned her sister, shaking her with the sharp pull she gave her arm. ‘Have you no spirit at all? But that’s just the way! You have no self-respect, you have no becoming pride, just as you allow yourself to be followed about by a contemptible little Chivery of a thing,’ with the scornfullest emphasis, ‘you would let your family be trodden on, and never turn.’
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
intransitive
transitive
examples: Ile looke no more, / Leaſt my braine turne,[…]
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The sight turned my stomach.
gloss: To change condition or attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: And they made a calfe in thoſe dayes / and offered ſacrifice vnto the ymage / and reioyſed in the workes of theyr awne hondes. / Then God turned hym ſilfe / and gave them vp /[…]
Turne from thy fierce wrath,[…]
The Mind receiving the Ideas, mentioned in the foregoing Chapter, from without, when it turns its view inward upon its ſelf,[…]
Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
gloss: To complete.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
examples: They say they can turn the parts in two days.
gloss: To make (money); turn a profit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.
gloss: Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Liverpool introduced Carroll for Spearing and were rewarded after 64 minutes when he put them back in contention. Stewart Downing blocked Jose Bosingwa's attempted clearance, which fell into the path of Carroll. He turned John Terry superbly before firing high past Cech.
gloss: To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
pos: verb
examples: Ivory turns well.
gloss: To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
pos: verb
gloss: To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To translate.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: to turn the Iliad
who turns a Persian tale for half a crown
gloss: To magically or divinely repel undead.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To carve vegetables into uniform barrel-like or American football-like shapes.
pos: verb
examples: The hardest part of culinary school was learning to turn vegetables perfectly.
gloss: A change of direction or orientation.
pos: noun
examples: Give the handle a turn, then pull it.
With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where[…]lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.
gloss: A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
pos: noun
gloss: A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
pos: noun
gloss: A walk to and fro.
pos: noun
examples: Let's take a turn in the garden.
"I've made a turn round the place, sir, and the light was on," was the reply.
gloss: A chance to use something shared in sequence with others.
pos: noun
examples: They took turns playing with the new toy.
With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where[…]lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.
gloss: A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
pos: noun
examples: I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes.
gloss: One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
pos: noun
gloss: A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
pos: noun
gloss: The time required to complete a project.
pos: noun
examples: They quote a three-day turn on parts like those.
gloss: The transition from one period or era, or hour on the clock, to another.
pos: noun
examples: turn of the century
[…] by cajolery and innuendo she had persuaded him to go to the picture palace to be cheered up, and as it was now on the turn of eleven he might be expected back at any moment.
By about 1300, Hungary's population was three times what it had been at the turn of the millenium.
[…]As long as ocean water's salt, And birch-trees feel the winds' assault, And crows build nests at winter's turn, Darling, I shall never return.
Writers arrive, in extremely small numbers, only at the turn of the Victorian era into the Edwardian era when modern Pan-Africanism was being born.
gloss: A fit or a period of giddiness.
pos: noun
examples: I've had a funny turn.
I'm sure I never shall forget the turn young Simmons gave me when he came in with that paper as he'd been and copied out of a winder thro' being in a west-end house, […]
'Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman—something that gave a man a turn—I don't know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt it in your marrow kind of cold and thin.'
gloss: A change in temperament or circumstance.
pos: noun
examples: She took a turn for the worse.
gloss: A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
pos: noun
gloss: The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
pos: noun
gloss: The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
pos: noun
examples: One good turn deserves another.
I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunity[…].
gloss: A single loop of a coil.
pos: noun
gloss: A pass behind or through an object.
pos: noun
gloss: Character; personality; nature.
pos: noun
examples: It was fortunate for his comfort, perhaps, that the man who had been chosen to accompany him was of a talkative turn, for the prisoners insisted upon hearing the story of the explosion a dozen times over, and Rufus Dawes himself had been roused to give the name of the vessel with his own lips.
gloss: An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
pos: noun
gloss: A short skit, act, or routine.
pos: noun
tags: especially
physical
examples: Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances.
gloss: A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: There are usually at least two jobbers who specialise in the leading stocks, and this acts to keep the jobber's turn to a reasonable amount […]
Synonyms: lathe
complete
360° turn
complete rotation
complete turn
full rotation
full turn
Related words: return
turnabout
turncoat
turning
turnout
turnover
turnpike
turnstile
turntable
ornament
trill
Derived words: beturn
even a worm will turn
mill-turn
not know where to turn
not know which way to turn
please turn left
please turn right
stomach-turning
the worm turns
tilt-and-turn
tilt-turn
toss and turn
turn a blind eye
turn about
turn a corner
turn a deaf ear
turn again
turn against
turn a hair
turn a new leaf
turn an honest penny
turn a number of shades of red
turn a page
turn a phrase
turn around
turnaround
turn around one's finger
turn a setback into a comeback
turn aside
turn a trick
turn away
turn back
turn back the clock
turn down
turn flukes
turn forth
turn heads
turn home
turn in
turn in one's grave
turn in on oneself
turn inside-out
turn in succession
turn into
turn inward
turn king's evidence
turn loose
turn off
turn on
turn one on
turn one's back
turn one's coat
turn one's color
turn one's hand to
turn one's life around
turn one's life upside down
turn one's nose up
turn up one's nose
turn one's world upside down
turn on its head
turn on one's heel
turn on red
turn or burn
turn out
turn over
turn pear-shaped
turn queen's evidence
turn round
turnround
turn rusty
turn someone's crank
turn someone's head
turn something into an art form
turn square corners
turn tail
turn the air blue
turn the boat
turn the boat around
turn the clock back
turn the corner
turn the dial
turn the frown upside down
turn the knife
turn the knife in the wound
turn the other cheek
turn the other way
turn the page
turn the scale
turn the screw
turn the screws
turn the table
turn the tables
turn the tide
turn the trick
turn the turtle
turn to
turn to account
turn to custard
turn to dust
turn together
turn to good account
turn to stone
turn traitor
turn tricks
turn Turk
turn turtle
turn two
turn under
turn up
turn upon
turn upside down
turn up the heat
turn with every wind
twist and turn
wheels are turning
about-turn
ampere-turn
at every turn
bad turn
bank-and-turn indicator
Buggins's turn
Buggins' turn
Choctaw turn
clubhouse turn
counterturn
courtesy turn
Cruyff turn
epistemological turn
evil turn
face turn
far turn
filter in turn
flip turn
give someone a turn
good turn
hairpin turn
half-turn
hammerhead turn
handbrake turn
hand's turn
heel/face turn
heel-face turn
heel turn
hook turn
ill turn
Immelmann turn
in-turn
in turn
J-turn
K-turn
left turn
linguistic turn
make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
make the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Marseille turn
moonshiner's turn
one bad turn deserves another
one good turn deserves another
one's turn in the barrel
one turn kill
on the turn
out of turn
out-turn
penalty turn
round turn
sea turn
serve the turn
speak out of turn
stall turn
star turn
Swiss-turn
take a turn
take a turn for the better
take a turn for the worse
take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
take in turn
take it in turns
take one's turn
take the wrong turn at Albuquerque
take turns
talk out of turn
telemark turn
the first turn of the screw pays all debts
three-point turn
to a turn
to the turn of a hair
treacherous turn
tumble turn
turn-and-bank indicator
turn and turn about
turn-based
turn bench
turn button
turn-by-turn
turn-by-turn navigation
turncap
turn construction unit
turn indicator
turn of duty
turn of events
turn of foot
turn of mind
turn of pace
turn of phrase
turn of speed
turn of the century
turn of the screw
turn of the year
turn of words
turn-sick
turn signal
turn stop
turn-taking
U-turn
wait one's turn
wave turn
zero-turn
turning
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡырыу
roman: qırıw
lang: Bulgarian
word: стругувам
roman: struguvam
lang: Danish
word: dreje
lang: Finnish
word: sorvata
lang: Galician
word: tornear
lang: German
word: drechseln
lang: Hungarian
word: esztergál
lang: Irish
word: deil
lang: Malayalam
word: തിരിയ്ക്കുക
roman: tiriykkuka
lang: Norwegian
word: dreie
lang: Portuguese
word: tornear
lang: Russian
word: точи́ть
roman: točítʹ
lang: Russian
word: наточи́ть
roman: natočítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: tornear
lang: Swedish
word: svarva
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چرخلمق
roman: çarhlamak
lang: Finnish
word: lyödä kierre
lang: Norwegian
word: skru
lang: Finnish
word: kiertää
lang: Bulgarian
word: превръщам се
roman: prevrǎštam se
lang: Esperanto
word: aliformiĝi
lang: Esperanto
word: aliiĝi
lang: Esperanto
word: transformiĝi
lang: Finnish
word: muuttua
lang: Finnish
word: muuttaa
lang: German
word: sich verwandeln
lang: German
word: verwandeln
lang: Hebrew
word: הָפַך
roman: hafákh
lang: Hungarian
word: változik
lang: Hungarian
word: átváltozik
lang: Italian
word: mutare
lang: Italian
word: trasformare
lang: Italian
word: cambiare
lang: Norwegian
word: endre
lang: Norwegian
word: forvandle
lang: Polish
word: zmieniać
lang: Polish
word: zmienić
lang: Polish
word: zmieniać się
lang: Polish
word: zmienić się
lang: Portuguese
word: virar
lang: Portuguese
word: tornar-se
lang: Spanish
word: tornar
lang: Swedish
word: förvandlas
lang: Finnish
word: alkaa huimata
lang: Arabic
word: دَوْرَة
roman: dawra
lang: Armenian
word: պտույտ
roman: ptuyt
lang: Belarusian
word: абаро́т
roman: abarót
lang: Belarusian
word: зваро́т
roman: zvarót
lang: Bulgarian
word: оборо́т
roman: oborót
lang: Catalan
word: volta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 旋轉 /旋转
roman: xuánzhuǎn
lang: Czech
word: obrátka
lang: Danish
word: omdrejning
lang: Dutch
word: omwenteling
lang: Finnish
word: kierros
lang: Finnish
word: pyörähdys
lang: Galician
word: volta
lang: Galician
word: viravolta
lang: Galician
word: reviravolta
lang: German
word: (vollständige) Drehung
lang: German
word: Umdrehung
lang: Greek
word: περιστροφή
roman: peristrofí
lang: Hungarian
word: fordulat
lang: Hungarian
word: elfordulás
lang: Hungarian
word: megfordulás
lang: Irish
word: sníomh
lang: Italian
word: giro
lang: Italian
word: giravolta
lang: Italian
word: piroetta
lang: Italian
word: rotazione
lang: Japanese
word: 回転
roman: kaiten
lang: Korean
word: 회전
roman: hoejeon
lang: Korean
word: 돌기
roman: dolgi
lang: Korean
word: 돌리기
roman: dolligi
lang: Central Kurdish
word: سوڕانەوە
roman: surranewe
lang: Central Kurdish
word: خولانەوە
roman: xulanewe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: omdreining
lang: Polish
word: obrót
lang: Portuguese
word: giro
lang: Portuguese
word: girada
lang: Russian
word: оборо́т
roman: oborót
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tionndadh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: car
lang: Slovak
word: obrátka
lang: Spanish
word: giro
lang: Spanish
word: viraje
lang: Spanish
word: virada
lang: Spanish
word: giramiento
lang: Spanish
word: girada
lang: Turkish
word: tur
lang: Ukrainian
word: о́берт
roman: óbert
lang: Ukrainian
word: оборо́т
roman: oborót
lang: Welsh
word: troi