Turn

/tɜːn/ · verb

Meaning

To make a non-linear physical movement..

Definitions by Sense

1. To make a non-linear physical movement.
2. (intransitive or transitive) To change condition or attitude.
3. (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
4. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
5. (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
6. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
7. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
8. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

Example Sentences

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.

They say they can turn the parts in two days.

We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.

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.

Ivory turns well.

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• turns
• turning
• turned
• turnt
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• turnest
• turnedst
• turneth
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