English > turn: 38 senses > noun 2, actMeaning | The act of changing or reversing the direction of the course. |
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Example | "he took a turn to the right" |
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Synonym | turning |
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Narrower | diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation | A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern / concern / concern) |
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kick turn | A standing turn made in skiing |
left | A turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east |
right | A turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east |
stem turn, stem | A turn made in skiing |
swerve, swerving, veering | The act of turning aside suddenly |
telemark | A turn made in skiing |
three-point turn | The act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs |
version | manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery / delivery) |
Broader | change of course | A change in the direction that you are moving |
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Spanish | giro |
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Catalan | gir |
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Verbs | turn | change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense |
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English > turn: 38 senses > verb 1, motionMeaning | change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
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Model | They turn the car down the avenue |
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Examples | - "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"
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Entailed by | wind, wind up | coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem |
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zigzag, crank | travel along a zigzag path |
Narrower | about-face | Turn, usually 180 degrees |
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avert, turn away | turn away or aside |
bend | change direction |
caracole | make a half turn on a horse, in dressage |
corkscrew, spiral | Move in a spiral or zigzag course |
corner | Turn a corner |
deflect | turn aside and away from an initial or intended course |
deflect, bend, turn away | Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest |
deviate, divert | Turn aside |
face | turn so as to face |
flip, flip over, turn over | turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse |
flip, toss | lightly throw to see which side comes up |
gee | Turn to the right side |
gyrate, spiral, coil | To wind or move in a spiral course |
overturn, turn over, tip over, tump over | Turn from an upright or normal position |
pivot, swivel | turn on a pivot |
port | Turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship |
pronate | Turn the forearm or the hand so that the palm is directed downwards |
roll, turn over | Move by turning over or rotating |
roll over | make a rolling motion or turn |
rotate, circumvolve | Cause to turn on an axis or center |
swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut | Turn sharply |
swing around, swing about, turn around | Turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically |
turn away | Move so as not face somebody or something |
turn off | make a turn |
turn on a dime | Have a small turning radius |
turn out, splay, spread out, rotate | Turn outward |
twist | Turn in the opposite direction |
Broader | move | Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion |
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See also | turn away | turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest |
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turn back | retrace one's course |
turn to | speak to |
Similar to | turn | Cause to move around or rotate |
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Spanish | girar, rotar, virar, voltear |
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Catalan | girar, rotar |
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Nouns | turn, turning | the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course |
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turn | the act of turning away or in the opposite direction |
turning, turn | a movement in a new direction |
English > turn: 38 senses > verb 2, changeMeaning | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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Examples | - "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"
- "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"
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Synonym | change state |
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Narrower | Frenchify | Become French in appearance or character |
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acidify, acetify | Turn acidic |
alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify | Turn basic and less acidic |
be born | Come into existence through birth |
become, go, get | Enter or assume a certain state or condition |
better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate | Get better |
boil | Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor |
break | crack |
burn, combust | Undergo combustion |
calcify | Turn into lime |
calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it | Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation |
carbonize, carbonise | Turn into carbon, as by burning |
carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise | Unite with carbon |
carnify | Become muscular or fleshy |
catalyze, catalyse | change by catalysis or cause to catalyze |
chondrify | Turn into cartilage |
citrate | Cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid |
close, shut | Become closed |
clot, coagulate | change from a liquid / liquid to a thickened or solid state |
cloud over | Become overcast |
coke | Become coke |
come to, revive, resuscitate | Return to consciousness |
conceive | Become pregnant |
concentrate | Make denser, stronger, or purer |
cool, chill, cool down | Loose heat |
cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise | Undergo cross-fertilization |
curdle, clabber, clot | Turn into curds |
denitrify | Remove nitrogen from |
die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
disengage | Become free |
dissolve, fade out, fade away | Become weaker |
dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel | Provide with clothes or put clothes on |
emaciate | Grow weak and thin or waste away physically |
emancipate, liberate | Give equal rights to |
empty, discharge | Become empty or void of its content |
emulsify | form into or become an emulsion |
equilibrate | Bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium |
erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate | start to burn or burst into flames |
esterify | change (a compound) into an ester |
etherify | change into an ether |
explode, burst forth, break loose | Be unleashed |
fall | Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind |
fill, fill up | Become full |
fluctuate | Be unstable / unstable |
freeze | change to ice |
gain, put on | increase (one's body weight) |
get into, tangle with | Get involved in or with |
get worse, relapse | deteriorate in health |
heat, hot up, heat up | gain heat or get hot |
homogenize, homogenise | Become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing |
homogenize, homogenise | Break up the fat globules of |
integrate | Become one |
ionize, ionise | convert into ions |
liquefy | Become liquid |
open, open up | Become open |
ossify | Become bony |
overgrow | Become overgrown |
precipitate | separate as a fine suspension of solid particles |
react | Undergo a chemical reaction |
reduce, melt off, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down | Take off weight |
relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down | Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease |
secularize, secularise | make secular and draw away from a religious orientation |
solvate | Undergo solvation or convert into a solvate |
sorb, take up | take up a liquid / liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption |
sour, turn, ferment, work | Go sour / sour or spoil |
tense, tense up | Become tense, nervous, or uneasy |
thicken, inspissate | Become thick or thicker |
thin | Lose thickness |
thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish | Make steady progress |
thrombose | Become blocked by a thrombus |
wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken | stop sleeping |
worsen, decline | Grow worse |
zonk out, pass out, black out | Lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example |
Broader | change | Undergo a change |
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See also | turn around | improve significantly |
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turn off | cause to feel intense dislike or distaste |
Similar to | become, turn | Undergo a change or development |
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turn, grow | Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute |
Spanish | convertirse, girar, rotar, transformarse |
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Catalan | convertir-se, girar, rotar, transformar-se |
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Nouns | turn | an unforeseen development |
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turning | act of changing in practice or custom / custom |
English > turn: 38 senses > verb 3, stativeMeaning | Undergo a change or development. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
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Examples | - "The water turned into ice"
- "He turned traitor"
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Synonym | become |
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Narrower | come, add up, amount | Develop into |
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nucleate | form into a nucleus |
reduce, come down, boil down | Be the essential element |
suffocate, choke | Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled |
Broader | transform, transmute, metamorphose | change in outward structure or looks |
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Similar to | change state, turn | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
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turn | Cause to change or turn into something different |
Spanish | convertir, hacerse, hacer, tornar, volverse |
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Catalan | canviar, convertir, esdevenir, fer tornar, transformar |
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Nouns | turn | an unforeseen development |
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English > turn: 38 senses > verb 4, motionMeaning | Cause to move around or rotate. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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Examples | - "turn a key"
- "turn your palm this way"
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Narrower | port | put or turn on the left side, of a ship |
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reorient | Cause to turn |
supinate | Turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg) |
Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
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Similar to | turn | change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense |
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turn | Cause to move along an axis or into a new direction |
Spanish | girar, rotar |
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Catalan | donar la volta, fer girar, girar, rotar |
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Nouns | turn | turning or twisting around (in place) |
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turn | a movement in a new direction |
English > turn: 38 senses > verb 5, changeMeaning | change to the contrary. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
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Examples | - "the tides turned against him"
- "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
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Synonyms | change by reversal, reverse |
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Narrower | commutate | reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current |
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correct, rectify, right | make right or correct |
desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate | Remove the consecration from a person or an object |
desynchronize, desynchronise | Cause to become desynchronized |
falsify | falsify / falsify / falsify / falsify knowingly |
interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip, flip-flop | reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) |
metamorphose, transfigure, transmogrify | change completely the nature or appearance of |
permute, commute, transpose | change the order or arrangement / arrangement of |
revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back | Go back to a previous state |
switch over, switch, exchange | change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence |
turn the tables, turn the tide | Cause a complete reversal of the circumstances |
undo | cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect |
Broader | change | Undergo a change |
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See also | turn off | cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch |
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turn on | cause to operate by flipping a switch |
Spanish | invertir, revertir, trastocar |
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Catalan | capgirar, invertir |
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Nouns | turn | a movement in a new direction |
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English > turn: 38 senses > verb 21, contactMeaning | Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked / crooked or angular form. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Example | "the strong man could turn an iron bar" |
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Synonyms | flex, bend, deform, twist |
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Entailed by | curl, curve, kink | form a curl, curve, or kink |
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Narrower | convolve, convolute | curl, wind, or twist together |
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crank | bend into the shape of a crank |
gnarl | Twist into a state of deformity |
incurvate | Cause to curve / curve inward |
indent, dent | make a depression into |
Broader | change shape, change form, deform | assume a different shape or form |
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Opposite | unbend | Free from flexure |
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Spanish | curvar, doblar, girar, rotar, torcer |
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Catalan | corbar, doblar, doblegar, encorbar, enroscar, girar, rotar, tòrçar, torçar, tòrcer, trenar |
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