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Turning
Definitions
- 1 A turn or deviation from a straight course. Ireland, UK
"Take the second turning on the left."
- 2 act of changing in practice or custom wordnet
- 3 At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
- 4 the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course wordnet
- 5 The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
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- 6 the activity of shaping something on a lathe wordnet
- 7 The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
"Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles."
- 8 the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe wordnet
- 9 One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
"Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president."
- 10 a movement in a new direction wordnet
- 11 Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe. plural, plural-only
"The turnings get into your trouser turnups!"
- 12 a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of turn form-of, gerund, participle, present
"The Earth is turning about its axis as we speak."
Etymology
From Middle English turnyng, turnynge, from Old English tyrning, turnung, equivalent to turn + -ing.
From Middle English turninge, turnynge, turninde, turnand, turnende, from Old English tyrnende, turniende, present participle of Old English tyrnan, turnian (“to turn”). Equivalent to turn + -ing.
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