turn

1. v. t. To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head. Source: opted

2. v. t. To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat. Source: opted

3. v. t. To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something. Source: opted

4. v. t. To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote. Source: opted

5. v. t. To word/change">change the word/form">form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like. Source: opted

6. v. t. To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal. Source: opted

7. v. t. Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt. Source: opted

8. v. t. To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad. Source: opted

9. v. t. To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly. Source: opted

10. v. t. To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach. Source: opted

11. v. i. To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel. Source: opted

12. v. i. Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact. Source: opted

13. v. i. To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue. Source: opted

14. v. i. To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road. Source: opted

15. v. i. To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan. Source: opted

16. v. i. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well. Source: opted

17. v. i. To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc. Source: opted

18. v. i. To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain. Source: opted

19. v. i. To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach. Source: opted

20. v. i. To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales. Source: opted

21. v. i. To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide. Source: opted

22. v. i. To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. Source: opted

23. v. i. To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. Source: opted

24. n. The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel. Source: opted

25. n. Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide. Source: opted

26. n. One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander. Source: opted

27. n. A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll. Source: opted

28. n. Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time. Source: opted

29. n. Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn. Source: opted

30. n. Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn. Source: opted

31. n. Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation. Source: opted

32. n. A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn. Source: opted

33. n. A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given. Source: opted

34. n. A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat. Source: opted

35. n. A pit sunk in some part of a drift. Source: opted

36. n. A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. Source: opted

37. n. Monthly courses; menses. Source: opted

38. n. An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /. Source: opted

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