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Sounds | ter'n |
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Rhymes | adjourn, andiron, auburn, and 58 more rhymes in ern at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A circular segment of a curve. |
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Synonyms | bend, crook |
Narrower | bight |
Broader | curve, curved shape |
Meaning | The act of changing or reversing the direction of the course. |
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Examples | "he took a turn to the right" |
Synonyms | turning |
Narrower | diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation; right; left; kick turn; stem turn, stem; telemark; swerve, swerving, veering; three-point turn; version |
Broader | change of course |
Verbs | turn |
Meaning | The activity of doing something in an agreed succession. |
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Examples | "it is my turn" |
Synonyms | play |
Part of | game |
Narrower | move; start, starting; innings; attack; down; bat, at-bat; lead; ruff, trumping |
Broader | activity |
Meaning | An unforeseen development. |
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Examples | "events suddenly took an awkward turn" |
Synonyms | turn of events, twist |
Broader | development |
Verbs | turn; turn; turn |
Meaning | A movement in a new direction. |
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Examples | "the turning of the wind" |
Synonyms | turning |
Narrower | reversal, turn around; yaw, swerve; rotation, revolution, gyration; return, coming back; volution |
Broader | movement, motion |
Verbs | turn; turn; turn; turn |
Meaning | Turning away or in the opposite direction. |
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Examples | "he made an abrupt turn away from her" |
Broader | change of direction, reorientation |
Verbs | turn |
Meaning | Turning or twisting around (in place). |
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Synonyms | twist |
Narrower | twiddle |
Broader | rotation, rotary motion |
Verbs | turn |
Meaning | A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else). |
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Synonyms | go, spell, tour |
Broader | shift, work shift, duty period |
Meaning | (sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive. |
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Synonyms | bout, round |
Category | sport, athletics |
Narrower | top, top of the inning; bottom, bottom of the inning |
Broader | playing period, period of play, play |
Meaning | A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program. |
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Synonyms | act, routine, number, bit |
Narrower | show-stopper, showstopper, stopper |
Broader | performance, public presentation |
Meaning | A favor for someone. |
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Examples | "he did me a good turn" |
Synonyms | good turn |
Broader | favor, favour |
Meaning | Taking a short walk out and back. |
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Examples | "we took a turn in the park" |
Broader | walk |
Meaning | Change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
Model | They turn the car down the avenue |
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" |
Entailed by | wind, wind up; zigzag, crank |
Narrower | twist; flip, flip over, turn over; turn on a dime; roll, turn over; roll over; swing around, swing about, turn around; flip, toss; port; face; turn off; turn away; gee; about-face; caracole; corner; overturn, turn over, tip over, tump over; bend; swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut; deflect, deviate; deflect, bend, turn away; avert, turn away; turn out, splay, spread out, rotate; rotate, circumvolve; pivot, swivel; gyrate, spiral, coil; corkscrew, spiral; deviate, divert; pronate |
Broader | move |
Similar to | turn |
See also | turn back; turn away; turn to |
Nouns | turning, turn; turn, turning; turn |
Meaning | Undergo a change or development. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "The water turned into ice"; "He turned traitor" |
Synonyms | become |
Narrower | reduce, come down, boil down; suffocate, choke; nucleate; come, add up, amount |
Broader | transform, transmute, metamorphose |
Similar to | change state, turn; turn |
Nouns | turn |
Meaning | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Examples | "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
Synonyms | change state |
Narrower | wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken; zonk out, pass out, black out; come to, revive, resuscitate; tense, tense up; relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down; reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down; gain, put on; dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel; cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise; conceive; secularize, secularise; citrate; equilibrate; fall; become, go, get; worsen, decline; better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate; disengage; overgrow; concentrate; break; acidify, acetify; alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify; ionize, ionise; ossify; catalyze, catalyse; get worse, relapse; fluctuate; explode, burst forth, break loose; die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass; be born; cloud over; carbonize, carbonise; cool, chill, cool down; heat, hot up, heat up; carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise; freeze; boil; burn, combust; emaciate; Frenchify; thin; thicken, inspissate; solvate; react; dissolve, fade out, fade away; empty, discharge; fill, fill up; homogenize, homogenise; homogenize, homogenise; curdle, clabber, clot; clot, coagulate; sour, turn, ferment, work; integrate; precipitate; calcify; coke; carnify; chondrify; emulsify; denitrify; devitrify; esterify; etherify; thrombose; open, open up; close, shut; sorb, take up; calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it; thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish; emancipate, liberate; get into, tangle with; liquefy; erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate |
Broader | change |
Similar to | turn, grow; become, turn |
See also | turn around; turn off |
Nouns | turning; turn |
Meaning | Cause to move around or rotate. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "turn a key"; "turn your palm this way" |
Narrower | reorient; supinate; port |
Broader | move, displace |
Similar to | turn; turn |
Nouns | turn; turn |
Meaning | Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute. Become. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s something Adjective/Noun; Something ----s Adjective/Noun |
Model | John will turn angry |
Examples | "The weather turned nasty" |
Synonyms | grow |
Narrower | bald; turn |
Broader | change |
Similar to | change state, turn |
Nouns | turn |
Meaning | To send or let go. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "They turned away the crowd at the gate of the governor's mansion" |
Broader | send, direct |
Meaning | Pass to the other side of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "turn the corner" |
Synonyms | move around |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
Nouns | turn |
Meaning | Move around an axis or a center. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "The wheels are turning" |
Narrower | revolve, go around, rotate |
Broader | move |
Meaning | Cause to move around a center so as to show another side of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They turn the coin |
Examples | "turn a page of a book" |
Synonyms | turn over |
Narrower | evert; leaf |
Broader | move, displace |
Nouns | turner |
Meaning | Change to the contrary. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern" |
Synonyms | change by reversal, reverse |
Narrower | interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip, flip-flop; turn the tables, turn the tide; commutate; switch over, switch, exchange; correct, rectify, right; falsify; permute, commute, transpose; metamorphose, transfigure, transmogrify; revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back; desynchronize, desynchronise; desecrate, deconsecrate; undo |
Broader | change |
See also | turn off; turn on |
Nouns | turn |
Meaning | To break and turn over earth especially with a plow. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "turn the earth in the Spring" |
Synonyms | plow, plough |
Category | farming, agriculture, husbandry |
Entails | dig, delve, cut into, turn over |
Narrower | ridge; harrow, disk |
Broader | till |
Meaning | Change color. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "In Vermont, the leaves turn early" |
Broader | turn, grow; discolor, discolour, colour, color |
Meaning | Cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "The princess turned the frog into a prince by kissing him"; "The alchemists tried to turn lead into gold" |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Similar to | become, turn |
Meaning | Let (something) fall or spill a container. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "turn the flour onto a plate" |
Synonyms | release |
Narrower | deflate; throw |
Broader | transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise |
Meaning | Twist suddenly so as to sprain. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | Did he turn his foot? |
Examples | "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" |
Synonyms | twist, sprain, wrench, wrick, rick |
Broader | injure, wound |
Meaning | Shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | The girls turn the wooden sticks |
Examples | "turn the legs of the table"; "turn the clay on the wheel" |
Broader | form |
Similar to | turn |
Nouns | turner; turnery; turnery |
Meaning | Go sour or spoil. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" |
Synonyms | sour, ferment, work |
Caused by | ferment, work |
Entailed by | brew |
Broader | change state, turn |
Similar to | ferment, work |
Meaning | Accomplish by rotating. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "turn a somersault"; "turn cartwheels" |
Broader | do, perform |
Similar to | turn |
Nouns | turner |
Meaning | Get by buying and selling. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "the company turned a good profit after a year" |
Category | commerce, commercialism, mercantilism |
Broader | get, acquire |
Meaning | Cause to move along an axis or into a new direction. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "turn your face to the wall"; "turn the car around"; "turn your dance partner around" |
Broader | move, displace |
Similar to | turn |
Meaning | Channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "people turn to mysticism at the turn of a millenium" |
Narrower | take up |
Broader | send, direct |
Meaning | Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "the strong man could turn an iron bar" |
Synonyms | flex, bend, deform, twist |
Entailed by | curl, curve, kink |
Narrower | indent, dent; incurvate; gnarl; crank; convolve, convolute |
Broader | change shape, change form, deform |
Contrary | unbend |
Meaning | Alter the functioning or setting of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "turn the dial to 10"; "turn the heat down" |
Broader | operate, control |
Meaning | Direct at someone. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She turned a smile on me"; "They turned their flashlights on the car" |
Broader | aim, take, train, take aim, direct |
Meaning | Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
Examples | "She turned to her relatives for help" |
Synonyms | call on |
Broader | appeal, invoke |
Meaning | Become officially one year older. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Examples | "She is turning 50 this year" |
Broader | senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate |