Turn

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

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.

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.

She turned the table legs with care and precision.

[…]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!

Add sugar and butter, then turn the mixture into a dish.

The farmer turned the cows into a field.

turn the bed covers;  turn the pages

turn to page twenty;  turn through the book

I fell off my bike and turned my ankle severely.

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.

The hillside behind our house isn't generally much to look at, but once all the trees turn it's gorgeous.

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.

This milk has turned; it smells awful.

to turn cider or wine

How long ago was he turned?

His companions had turned him on purpose. Annie, bless her heart, was immune.

Bruce Banner turns when he is angry: he becomes the Hulk, an incredibly powerful green monster.

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

The decision turns on a single fact.

[…] Conditions of Peace certainly do turn upon Events of War.

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.’

Ile looke no more, / Leaſt my braine turne,[…]

The sight turned my stomach.

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.

to turn the Iliad

who turns a Persian tale for half a crown

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.

Let's take a turn in the garden.

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.

I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes.

They quote a three-day turn on parts like those.

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.'

She took a turn for the worse.

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[…].

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.

Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances.

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 […]