| 单词 | turn |
| 释义 | turn I. 1. a. < turn a wheel > < turn a crank > < great wheel turns its axle when it can — Theodore Roethke > < shaft … can be turned … at higher than 50,000 revolutions per minute — Ford Times > < how that little scrapper could hold and turn a miner's drill — N.C.Wilson > b. (1) < turn a key in a lock > < turned the knob till the door opened > < turn a screw tight > < shut the door and turned the bolt — Paul Horgan > < turn the cap to release it > < turned the handle to the shut position > (2) < turned the lamp as low as it would go > < turned the heating pad too high > < turned the steam iron to rayon > c. < turn a double somersault > < turn handsprings > or like a spinning top < turns a clumsy pirouette — G.C.Menotti > d. < so easy … to plant a swift blow, to turn a fragile wrist — H.A.Overstreet > < stumbled along, turning his ankle at frequent intervals — Peggy Bennett > 2. a. (1) < nurse could easily turn a patient twice her size > < leaned out, and turned his heavy shoulders … around to gaze up into the dark night — Glenway Wescott > < kept turning his hat in his hands > < turned his chair to the fire > (2) < turning the pages of the book > specifically (3) < turned the scale at 160 pounds > (4) < a fate she did not turn a finger to escape — V.L.Parrington > b. < turned the question every which way but could find no answer > < was still turning the idea about when he fell asleep > — usually used with over < turning the scenes and characters over in his mind — Ernest Newman > < appeared to be turning something over in his mind — Douglas Stewart > < disturbing thought … persisted. He turned it over continuously as he rode — T.B.Costain > 3. a. < turn an hourglass > < turn pancakes > < turn a phonograph record > < coat can be turned and worn either side out > < turn 4 thin veal fillets in 1 oz. seasoned flour — Modern Woman > < turned the rug frequently to equalize wear > (1) < soil should be turned after the harvest > < was eager to get home and begin turning his ground — G.S.Perry > < sod … almost had to be turned by main strength, piece by piece — O.E.Rölvaag > (2) < turn a dress > < turn a collar > (3) b. < found everything turned topsy-turvy > < robbers had turned the room upside down > < in adapting the novel … have turned the story on its head — Arthur Knight > c. (1) < thwarted affections had turned her brain — Kathleen Freeman > < a mind turned by grief > (2) < success had not turned his head > < silly girl's head had been turned by a handful of compliments > d. < very thought of food turned his stomach > e. < turned his horse and rode away > < hard car to turn in a narrow street > 4. a. < turn the channel of a stream > < saddle stock spooked and I had to run them two miles to turn them — Bruce Siberts & W.D.Wyman > < turn a car into a stream of traffic > as (1) < captured cart was turned and rumbled past — F.V.W.Mason > < series of revolts which was definitely to turn the tide against reaction — C.L.Jones > (2) < police used fire hoses and tear gas to turn the mob > (3) < wires are close enough together … to turn hogs and sheep — Fence > < struck like a club in the dark … not to be turned by any plea — R.O.Bowen > (4) < flights the ball well, turns it markedly any way — Sunday Express (Johannesburg) South Africa > b. (1) < alliance … led directly to war, and turned the course of history — L.L.Snyder > < is not facts … but what people think about the facts that turns elections — Times Literary Supplement > < turned the talk to baseball > (2) < would not be turned from his life of senseless pleasure > < a plea that would have turned a heart of stone > c. (1) < turned the corner at full speed > < watched the leading boat turn the first marker > (2) < ship had turned the cape and was now homeward bound > < a play designed to turn the end of the defensive line > < was so intent on surprising the enemy … that his right flank was turned, and he suffered … a crushing defeat — R.L.Conolly > d. < was waiting for the clock to turn ten > < turned seventeen the day he graduated > < this robust man, just turned fifty, died of cerebral hemorrhage — Padraic Colum > < turned of seventy years, he had withdrawn from active business — F.L.Paxson > 5. a. (1) < had turned his face from the curious onlookers > < turned a pair of stricken eyes on his mother — T.B.Costain > < turning more and more hostile looks in her direction — Charles Lee > < will find anxious eyes all over the town turned toward the dropping mercury — Judson Philips > (2) < turn the cheek even to the smiter's hand — P.B.Shelley > < apologized for turning his back to his guests > < face she turned to the world was always serene > < cattle had turned tail to the storm — F.B.Gipson > < the novel, a powerful modern agency for civilization … must turn to the light many ugly realities — Carl Van Doren > < always turned his left profile to the cameras > (3) < stood alone in the open doorway turning his eyes speculatively > often < turned her face and wept > < staring match to see who would first turn his eyes > (4) archaic b. < turned his light into the dark doorway > — usually used with on or upon < turned the binoculars on those retreating backs — Maurice Duggan > < cannon were turned on the city and street fighting broke out — C.L.Jones > < had been vaguely turning his torch on the number plates of a short line of cars — Elizabeth Bowen > < turned his cameras directly upon the violence and brutality of life — Arthur Knight > < bring them into his study and turn upon them the light of his critical analysis — V.L.Parrington > c. (1) < turn his thoughts to home > < recording companies must turn their attention … to other kinds of music — P.H.Lang > < was free to turn his whole mind and will to work — Carl Van Doren > < urging him to turn his thoughts towards religion — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > < sought to turn man's curious mind from this world to the next — Marjory S. Douglas > < turn public attention to the fascinating underworld of the unconscious — C.I.Glicksberg > < cool evenings and heavy dews that turn the mind toward sweaters — Virgil Thomson > (2) archaic d. (1) obsolete < all the trouble thou hast turned me to — Shakespeare > (2) < a popish place like that! They'll turn her … sure as death and taxes — Angus Mowat > (3) archaic < Apollo turn all to the best — Shakespeare > e. (1) < turn anthropological knowledge to practical uses — Ralph Linton > < studying how they could best turn to their own benefit the doctrines they found — F.L.Paxson > < turned misfortune to good account — Sir Winston Churchill > < turns her compassion to finding ways in which she and her staff can help — Lamp > < sawmill and gristmill were erected … and a soda spring nearby turned to the use of the Saints — R.A.Billington > (2) < turned every available workman on the unexpected order > < turned all hands onto the job of cleaning up > f. (1) < tests the Communists' underlying contention … and turns their argument against them — Arthur Knight > < secured or collected Japanese swords, then turned them upon their former owners — R.W.Thorp > (2) < turn a child against its mother > < campaign to turn the people against their leaders > < had an arrogant manner that turned many against him > g. (1) < turned his steps homeward > (2) < turn cows to pasture > < farmers round about turn into these woods their young cattle — John Burroughs > < turned the cat into the cellar for the night > especially < officers were turned adrift by the mutineers > — usually used with away, from, off, out of < kind of man who would turn a homeless child from his door > < turned his wayward son out of his house > < no deserving person is ever turned away from that mission > < kept busy turning hunters off his land > (3) < don't need a recipe — just turn the meat into a pot, heat, and serve > < mixture was turned into a baking tin and popped into a preheated oven > < asked by the police to turn the contents of her handbag out onto the table > 6. a. (1) archaic (2) < hot weather may turn milk > (3) b. (1) < giant elms that turn those streets into great cathedrals in summer — Maxwell Mays > < turned an almost impossible challenge into a remarkable personal triumph — C.H.Driver > < had turned disappointment into contentment and failure into success — Ellen Glasgow > < would turn their ancient town into just another dormitory-suburb — Sam Pollock > < device that turns the sun's light directly into electricity — E.C.Bullard > < tries to turn every contact into a vote — R.L.Duffus > < gadget that was going to turn us all into a nation of gawking illiterates — R.M.Yoder > < claim the desert can be turned to farmland — Newsweek > < cannot leave his comedy turned to sadness by the sentencing of the youths — K.F.Thompson > (2) < beautifully sculptured French has been turned into equally impressive English — Times Literary Supplement > < selected a group of translators … to turn into Latin a considerable number of important Greek books — G.C.Sellery > < struggled to turn Indian legends and colonial tales into verse — Howard M. Jones > also c. < turns the marble pillars above into a dusky silver > < salt air of the Cape is said to turn the shingles on roofs and walls to a distinctive gray — Jackson Rivers > < wondered if the contortionist would be able to turn himself into his right shape again > d. < turned his stocks and bonds into cash > < turn a pocketful of coins into paper money > e. < starvation, thirst, heat and chills turn them mad or sullen — Charles Lee > < turns your tongue black if you drink too much of it — R.H.Newman > < last year's drought turned things worse — Christian Science Monitor > < improvements turned them obsolete — Roger Burlingame > < if the resulting bungles … do not turn the cold war hot — Times Literary Supplement > f. < humiliates him by patronizing him and turns to ridicule his abilities and ambitions — Edmund Wilson > 7. a. < turn a set of table legs > < craftsmen turning small ivory figurines > < most effective cutting rate in relation to the material being turned — Industrial Improvement > b. < showed him how to turn the volute of a capital — Van Wyck Brooks > as (1) archaic (2) (3) < looking down at her as she sat turning a heel — J.M.Barrie > c. (1) < girl with magnificently turned ankles — New Yorker > < a long nyloned leg, a trifle thin but well turned — Earle Birney > (2) < really knows how to turn a sentence > < has a knack for turning a phrase — W.O.Douglas > < man's obviously literate, can turn neat and precise phrases — Rex Ingamells > < slick, quick, well turned plays — H.A.L.Craig > < speaks rather elegant and carefully turned English — Winthrop Sargent > < a gentle squib of beautifully turned parody — Britain Today > sometimes < performances are … well turned — Edward Sackville-West & Desmond Shawe-Taylor > d. obsolete < by nature turned to play the rake — Jonathan Swift > 8. a. obsolete b. obsolete c. < creepers turned their tendrils about a picket fence > < had a snake turned round his arm > d. < turn a lead pipe > < tubing had been turned in a U-shaped curve > e. (1) < even ordinary slicing tends to turn a fine edge — L.D.Bement > : blunt, dull < if skins are too thick, they are reduced … with a moon knife with a turned edge — H.R.Procter > < thinks the edge of this objection can be turned — R.J.Spilsbury > (2) < spoke slowly and softly with a smile that did little to turn the edge of his attack > < this … approach … turns the edge of certain hostile criticisms — Journal of Philosophy > 9. a. < pushcart vendor of oranges may turn his stock every day — J.W.Wingate > b. < were not able to turn a penny in the present market > < scheme to sell tea cheaply to the colonies and turn a quick penny at the same time — James Street > < known to be turning a profit this year — Doyle Smee > < doing odd jobs to turn an honest penny — John Dos Passos > < tricks … by which a more or less dishonest dollar can be turned — V.O.Key > I. 1. a. < wheel turned rapidly > < gate creaked as it turned on its hinges > < heavens … turn in silence round the pole — A.E.Housman > < key would not turn in the lock > < meat was turning on the spit > b. of the head or brain < I'll look no more lest my brain turn — Shakespeare > < hated heights; they always made his head turn > c. (1) < problems will rarely turn on simple questions of right or wrong — H.G.Rickover > < the second act … the one upon which the whole work turns — Virgil Thomson > < the trouble turned substantially on the failure … to consult and inform our allies — New Republic > < guilt or innocence … turns on the identification of the weapon — Irish Digest > < argument turns upon a point not of ethics but logic — Gail Kennedy > (2) < social activity turned largely around official and church activities — C.L.Jones > < story turns about a tormented passion felt by a dying young girl — Charles Lee > or with on or upon < discussion turned solely upon the feasibility of the scheme > < differences of opinion have turned mainly upon … how the success in Vienna can be turned to advantage here — J.E.Williams > 2. a. < suffer with cramps in the muscles … when they turn or stretch — Morris Fishbein > < had lain twisting and turning as he bemoaned their fate — O.E.Rölvaag > < turned on his side > < tossed and turned, sighing and groaning — Kenneth Roberts > < enough to make a person turn in his grave > b. < cabin was so small that a dog could hardly turn in it — Tobias Smollett > < can turn on a dime for repeated depth-charge attacks — J.C.Furnas > < turned on his heel and walked away > < boat could turn in its own length > c. d. < turn ahead to the third chapter > < one can only leaf through the pictures or turn to a list at the end of the book — Jane G. Mahler > 3. a. < was completely lost, hadn't the faintest idea which way to turn > < was content to go whichever way his feet turned > < they turned into a street in which there was considerable activity — Irwin Shaw > b. (1) < market turned sharply in the afternoon > < nervous footpad turned and fled > < luck turned and he went broke > specifically < you should start half an hour to an hour before the tide turns — Peter Heaton > (2) < the … advantage — the buoyancy and liveliness of their lightly loaded craft — abruptly turned against them — Walter O'Meara > c. < turned toward home > < turn to the left at the foot of the hill > < turned from the road into a tree-shaded lane > < rabbit ran out and turned along the hedge — Adrian Bell > < surge which had traveled southwards along our east coast later turned and moved northwards — J.A.Steers > < economy has begun to turn downward — L.H.Keyserling > < corporate profits are turning upward — Newsweek > as (1) (2) < was at home in the country … turning about his grounds, sauntering by a brookside — Van Wyck Brooks > (3) of the wind < in the afternoon the wind turned into the east — Kenneth Roberts > < the wind turned and the sky cleared > (4) d. < main road turns sharp right at the fork > < highway turns gradually away from the river > < river did indeed finally turn to the left — Tom Marvel > < long hall runs the length of the building without turning > 4. a. < everywhere the eye turns … it encounters propaganda — New York Times Magazine > often < heard his name called but did not turn > < astonished dignitaries were turning to stare at him — Al Hine & J.P.O'Neill > b. < however one turns, one cannot evade the truth — R.M.Weaver > < turn from a gruesome sight > < turned expectantly toward the door > < had taken fright at our behavior and turned to the captain pitifully — Joseph Conrad > c. (1) < even a worm will turn > — usually used with against < felt that the whole world had suddenly turned against him > < even the younger men had turned against me — W.B.Yeats > (2) < turned upon them with a ferocity which made a savage of him on the spot — Virginia Woolf > < must come up with solutions or his party will be quick to turn on him — New Republic > (3) < bulls often turned on the wounded, and the hunter could thus induce a fight — C.D.Forde > < dog had suddenly and for no apparent reason turned on his master > 5. a. < men have turned from the discussion of universals — H.O.Taylor > < turns away in this book from his previous shock-treatment style of writing — Henry Cavendish > < played for society dances before turning to the blues — Hubert Creekmore > < former has turned to religion while the latter is still trying to live with uncertainty — Granville Hicks > also < riding to Canterbury, his mind naturally turned to church history — S.M.Crothers > < the thoughts of pioneers turned to self-government — R.A.Billington > < English prose turned to the sea in the early eighteenth century — W.P.Webb > b. (1) < turn to God > < disciples must turn, i.e. change their dispositions and habits — Interpreter's Bible > specifically < he's a Catholic and I'm going to turn — Victoria Lincoln > < feeling … that you've been praying for me to turn — Ruth Park > (2) c. < let us turn now from mechanics to medicine — Benjamin Farrington > < now let us turn to the United States and its theater — Marc Connelly > < kept wishing the speaker would turn to something less gloomy > also < talk, by some odd chance, had turned to the value of reticence in art — Thomas Wood †1950 > < one evening over a cocktail the conversation turned to trout — Alexander MacDonald > d. < for the historical presentation of contemporary literature one must turn to … foreign critics — F.B.Millett > : refer < the book to which one turns inevitably for information on whaling — Hal Nielson > < book … that can be turned to again and again — Arthur Knight > : resort < government is not likely to turn to private sources for dollars at higher rates of interest — J.C.Harsch > < for relaxation he turns to tennis — Current Biography > < painful illness led him to turn to drugs > < employers turned to the regions where cheap labor was to be found — Oscar Handlin > < few experts … to whom it could turn for knowledge and counsel — C.W.de Kiewiet > < a man to turn to in time of need > e. < fewer studying medicine and more turning to agriculture and dairy science — Irish Digest > < came out of the army with nothing in mind to turn to > < turned to the study of the law with enthusiasm > 6. a. (1) archaic (2) < by the first of October most of the leaves have turned — W.H.Upson > < hickories were turning slowly and here and there the boughs were brushed with wine-color — Ellen Glasgow > (3) < found that the milk had turned > (4) (5) b. (1) < water had turned to ice > < passive neglect turned into active antagonism — G.G.Coulton > < went away a fledgling and he has turned into a man — Louis Bromfield > < friendship … turns into conflict, and in the end a formal duel is held — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > < puzzled look … turned quickly to one of understanding — T.B.Costain > < no clear dividing line between fluids and jellies … one may turn readily into the other — New Biology > (2) < hair had turned gray > < face turned white > < milk turned sour > < animal turned nasty > < weather turned bad > < voice turned shrill > < cautious ones turned moderately optimistic — Biddle Survey > < country turned thin and poor, with great patches of naked ground — H.L.Davis > (3) < turn state's evidence > < both poets in the end turned men of action — Osbert Sitwell > < dancing-school teacher who turns call girl — Anthony Boucher > < in Latin America physicians frequently turn author and statesman — Americas > < wartime diary of a journalist turned lieutenant commander — A.A.Ageton > < walls rise sheer around the courtyard turned theater — Claudia Cassidy > < picture themselves turning explorer and going home down the Amazon — Geographical Journal > 7. < the knife's edge had turned > 8. 9. a. b. < beech is largely used … since it turns easily in the lathe — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > < ivory turns well > 10. of merchandise 11. of a goat Synonyms: < though local questions, such as the State Bank and state aid to railroads, gave rise to sharp contests, politics usually revolved around national questions — A.B.Moore > < everything in that house revolved upon Aunt Mary — Margaret Deland > rotate is likely to suggest a circular motion on an interior axis within the thing under consideration which may be not moving otherwise < the earth rotates on its axis while it revolves on its orbit > gyrate may suggest the regularity of revolve but it is likely to be used to indicate a fluctuating or swinging back and forth which describes circular or spiral patterns < stocks gyrated dizzily on uncertainty over the foreign situation — Wall Street Journal > < a low cloud of dust raised by the dog gyrating madly about — Joseph Conrad > circle may simply indicate a movement around in a more or less circular pattern, or it may indicate any lack of straight directness in a winding course < a flock of black ibises circled high overhead wheeling endlessly on the ascending air currents — Dillon Ripley > < the essayist's licence to circle and meander — Virginia Woolf > spin indicates rapid sustained rotation on an inner axis or fast circling around an exterior point < he who but ventures into the outer circle of the whirlpool is spinning, ere he has time for thought in its dizzy vortex — Bayard Taylor > twirl adds to the ideas of spin those of dexterity, lightness, or easy grace < this … book … I toss i' the air, and catch again, and twirl about — Robert Browning > whirl stresses force, power, speed, and impetus of rotary or circular motion < and collections of opaque particles whirled to shore by the eddies — William Bartram > < the withered leaves had gathered violence in pursuit, and were whirling after her like a bevy of witches — Ellen Glasgow > wheel may suggest either going in a circular or twisted course or turning on an arc or curve to a new course < a familiar sight is the turkey vulture wheeling against the skies to the north — American Guide Series: Arizona > < she had crossed the threshold to the porch, when, wheeling abruptly, she went back into the hall — Ellen Glasgow > eddy suggests the circular movement, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, of an eddy; it may be used in situations involving indirection, futility, or isolation from main currents < as the smoke slowly eddied away — Stephen Crane > < the dead leaves which eddied slowly down through the windless calm — Rebecca West > < waves of friends and reporters eddied through the apartment — Time > swirl suggests more rapidity, flow, or graceful attractiveness than eddy < further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust swirled — Rudyard Kipling > < the black water was running like a millrace and raising a turbulent coil as it swirled and tossed over the ugly heads of jutting rocks — T.B.Costain > < her dark hair swirled about her face — Helen Howe > pirouette suggests the light graceful turning of a ballet dancer < ashes pirouetted down, coquetting with young beeches — Alfred Tennyson > Synonym: see in addition depend. Synonyms: < vast quantities of water can be diverted from one to the other watershed with very little engineering work — B.K.Sandwell > < the machinery of our economic life has been diverted from peace to war — Clement Attlee > deflect is more likely to be used in reference to bouncing, refraction, or ricochet from a straight course or fixed direction < when they were fired at a thin film of metal, the majority passed through without being substantially deflected from their courses — James Jeans > In more figurative uses, it implies a turning, refracting, or deviating from a clearly evident course, direction, or pattern < he underwent all those things — but none of them deflected his purpose — Hilaire Belloc > < after all, she had perhaps purposely deflected the conversation from her own affairs — Edith Wharton > < the spirit … of the Romance tongues deflecting it from classical constructions — H.O.Taylor > avert implies no particular previously set course or pattern but usually indicates either a turning away of one's eyes, attention, or the like from the unpleasant or a turning of the course of exterior developments to avoid the dangerous or unpleasant < tried unsuccessfully to avert her horrified eyes from the sight > < Athenian statesmen averted a social revolution by successfully carrying through an economic and political revolution — A.J.Toynbee > sheer, orig. nautical, is likely to involve a sharp turning or veering, as of a ship, or, in more figurative use, a sharply sudden divergence from a path or course previously followed < a griffon, wheeling here and there about, kept reconnoitring us … till he sheered off — John Keats > • - turn a blind eye - turn a cold shoulder to - turn a deaf ear - turn a flange - turn a hair - turn around one's finger - turn color - turn edge - turn flukes - turn loose - turn one's back on - turn one's coat - turn one's hand - turn one's stomach - turn over a new leaf - turn tail - turn the other cheek - turn the scale - turn the tables - turn the trick - turn thumbs down - turn to windward - turn turtle II. 1. a. < turn is the motion employed to turn the hand either empty or loaded by movement that rotates the hand, wrist, and forearm about the long axis of the forearm — Methods-Time Measurement > < knowledge and entertainment are brought with the turn of a dial — Girl Scout Handbk. > < almost any turn of the kaleidoscope of nature may set up in the artist this … vision — Roger Fry > b. < twists and turns of the head > < each turn of the wheels brought them nearer home > < only three turns of the moon — Virginia Woolf > < grand old leaps and turns of the imperial ballet discipline — Time > as (1) (2) 2. a. < forgot to make the usual turn at the corner > < illegal left turn > < gentle turns may be performed by rudder alone — R.P.Holland > < controls had jammed in a turn — Phil Gustafson > as (1) (2) (3) (4) b. < gave the story so many twists and turns the reader becomes lost > as (1) < hound gave the hare a turn > (2) (3) < would open his account with a turn to the one side, generally forward of square leg — Calling All Cricketers > c. < an about turn > < wait for the turn of the tide > < sales have never been higher at this season — and there are few signs of a turn — Nation's Business > as (1) (2) d. < lost a fortune on one turn of the cards > e. < stopped at a turn in the road > < river has many turns > < couldn't get the piano around the turn in the hallway > < swept around a turn of the trees, down the nearest avenue toward us — B.T.Cleeve > as (1) dialect England (2) < took the lead on the run to the clubhouse turn — New York Times > < too big to move easily around the turns — Albion Hughes > (3) < was three up at the turn > < made the turn in 35 — New York Times > (4) 3. a. (1) obsolete (2) b. (1) < usually took a turn around the block before going to bed > < going to have a turn under the stars before I follow you — Agnes S. Turnbull > < took a short turn through the garden — to the row of tamarisk trees and back — Willa Cather > < so incurably soft as not to be able to face a gentle turn round an ordinary suburban garden — Osbert Lancaster > (2) < had enough gas for a half hour's turn in the park > < studied navigation — why, if I had taken one turn down the harbor I should have known more about it — H.D.Thoreau > c. chiefly dialect 4. a. b. archaic < beheld in either field a farmer at work and proposed to play the two a turn — Joseph Campbell > 5. a. < one good turn deserves another > < when you turned me out you did me the best turn you ever did me — W.S.Maugham > < actually the worms do the cattle farmers a good turn — B.C.Cronwright > < you've had a rotten deal … The man … has done you a bad turn — Dorothy Sayers > b. chiefly Scotland 6. a. < went on deck and took a turn at the wheel > < a turn at the lathe in his cellar workshop — Otis Fellows > < catch their breath between turns on the ice — H.W.Wind > < enjoys spectator sports, bridge, and a turn on the dance floor — Current Biography > specifically b. < rooms were thoroughly cleaned each in its turn > < was waiting his turn in a doctor's office > < is pointed out to him that his turn will come — Richard Joseph > < took our turn and did our bit — G.B.Shaw > < class took turns expressing opinions — Eleanor S. Lowman > < turn of the surrealists for market appreciation is probably next — J.T.Soby > often c. < increases … to 6 cents from 4 cents on the afternoon turn — Wall Street Journal > < will add a second turn employing another 1000 — Wall Street Journal > d. < announced each act and said a few words between turns — Pete Martin > < can recall virtually every routine and turn he ever learned — R.B.Gehman > < a song-and-dance turn > < cabaret turns > < chief turn consisted of four performing elephants — Osbert Sitwell > also < commended only one of the turns, a young man … who sang Danny Boy — Patrick Campbell > e. (1) (2) 7. a. (1) (2) chiefly dialect (3) b. (1) < executes the turns with beautiful ease — Irving Kolodin > (2) 8. < the philosophy that serves one's turn best — J.C.Powys > < hoping … to exploit and then disown him after he had served their turn — Times Literary Supplement > 9. obsolete 10. a. < a nasty turn in the weather > < tea too weak and not hot enough, and the milk verging to the turn — E.O.Schlunke > b. < hoped for a turn in his luck > < credit situation probably won't cause an adverse turn in the economy — M.S.Rukeyser > < turn of fortune which made him a prisoner of war — G.F.Hudson > < fairly sharp turns characterize British history — Current History > < a turn for the better in the bitter labor-management feud — Mary K. Hammond > < market for used cars took a definite turn for the worse — Leo Wolman > < laughing up their sleeves at the turn of affairs — Edward Bok > c. < the turn of the seasons — the low point between the end of the winter season and the pickup of the spring-summer boom — New York Times > < decided to wait until the turn of the year > < our literary taste at the turn of the century — M.D.Geismar > < born just after the turn of the century > < years at the turn of the twentieth century were vintage years — W.A.White > d. Britain 11. a. < peculiar turn of the Greek genius — H.J.J.Winter > < the turn and genius of our language — Thomas Gray > b. (1) < saw in the turn of her phrase an opportunity to exhibit a small verbal neatness — Dorothy C. Fisher > < stylist … will appreciate the turn of the phrase — Gilbert Seldes > < never at a loss for a turn of a phrase to illustrate a point — Harvey Graham > < shocks us … by its Machiavellian turn of phrase — Béla Menczer > (2) < some of the most felicitous turns of thought and phrase in poetry — J.L.Lowes > < Scandinavian strain … is shown more clearly by turns of expression than by the forms of individual words — F.M.Steuton > < altered his dress, his mannerisms, and his turns of speech — Geoffrey Gorer > < studded with his special capering marks and turns of style — Richard Eberhart > < uses many dialect turns — H.H.Reichard > < even an advanced student misses idiomatic turns — Geoffrey Bullough > c. < gown showed off the turn of her neck and shoulder > : cast < an unbelievably evil turn of countenance > 12. a. < spinning yarns … in various grades, sizes, and degrees of twist or turn — Whitlock Cordage > specifically b. < snail shell with seven turns > < stove was cracked and held together with many turns of heavy wire — Brian Harwin > < turns around the drum of the windlass began to slip — H.A.Chippendale > < one turn of wire when carrying one ampere of current is known as one ampere turn — Irving Frazee > < give a yarn ten turns of twist per inch of length — Werner Von Bergen & H.R.Mauersberger > < the axial length of one complete turn or helix of a wire in a cable — L.F.Hickernell & A.A.Jones > c. < a turn is taken round the most convenient article that will take the strain — Fire Service Drill Book > 13. a. b. c. d. chiefly dialect 14. a. < renown … rests not on his geometry or his turn for affairs — Benjamin Farrington > < a fellow with a real practical turn — O.W.Holmes †1894 > < a turn for logical presentation — Jane Addams > < a pretty turn for anecdote — W.S.Gilbert > < must possess … artistic sensibility and a turn for clear thinking — Clive Bell > — used especially in the phrase turn of mind < am of an optimistic turn of mind — G.P.Brockway > < had a philosophic turn of mind — John Mason Brown > < help to stimulate an inquiring turn of mind — Warwick Braithwaite > < men of a speculative turn of mind — M.R.Cohen > b. (1) obsolete (2) dialect 15. a. < the individuals who took a decisive part in them — who gave a turn to the events — Herbert Read > < the oriental turn of seeking nirvana — Warren Weaver > < provide a clue as to the turn of events a few seconds before they happen — Princess Indira > b. < gave the hoary old yarn a new turn > < gave a native turn to the designs which they imitated — O. Elfrida Saunders > 16. a. < some turn of disease had begun to parade erotic images before his eyes — W.B.Yeats > < a delicate man, who had survived, mother alone knows how many bad turns — Blanche E. Baughan > < isn't a real snake on the carpet, it is only one of my turns — Margaret Macdonald > b. < gives one quite a turn to discover that one's husband is a murderer — Denis Johnston > < had given me a turn … she was so close to the edge — Joseph Conrad > < gave him a nasty turn, but he put on a bold front — W.S.Maugham > c. turns plural 17. a. b. < wash goods department may find that three turns a year are feasible — J.W.Wingate > 18. a. (1) (2) < turns have been made in most of the galleys > b. • - at every turn - by turns - in turn - on the turn - out of turn - to a turn III. V. 1. < turn tricks > 2. < turned a double play > VI. |
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