Word Finder - turns

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(heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.

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(heading) To change condition or attitude.

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To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.

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(usually with over) To complete.

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They say they can turn the parts in two days.

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To make (money); turn a profit.

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We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.

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Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.

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To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.

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Ivory turns well.

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To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

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To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

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To translate.

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to turn the Iliad

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To magically or divinely attack undead.

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A change of direction or orientation.

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Give the handle a turn, then pull it.

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A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.

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A walk to and fro.

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Let's take a turn in the garden.

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• promenade

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A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.

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They took turns playing with the new toy.

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A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.

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

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One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.

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A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.

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The time required to complete a project.

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

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• turnaround

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A fit or a period of giddiness.

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I've had a funny turn.

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A change in temperament or circumstance.

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She took a turn for the worse.

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A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).

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The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.

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The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.

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A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.

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I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunity [...].

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A single loop of a coil.

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(rope) A pass behind or through an object.

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Character; personality; nature.

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An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.

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(circus, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.

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A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.

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The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.

It turns out that he loves to paint.

On Christmas Eve, we sit in front of the fire and take turns reading Christmas stories.

He knew without Martha's map he'd never remember the various turns he and Cynthia had taken to where the skeleton had reposed for over fifty years.

When signals are to be sent from either station the operator turns the switch c out of contact with the stop b, and then operates precisely as in open circuit send '" i ing.

It is hard to see how all-out war turns a profit for anyone in any scenario.

Dean skied a few tentative yards down the slope, took a couple of turns, stopped, and assessed himself.

Len and Howard took turns at her side throughout the funeral and at graveside.

Her face felt hot and cold by turns and she didn't have enough saliva to swallow.

Each of us took turns thanking Merrill Cooms personally on the phone although he insisted it was unnecessary.

He knows he has nightmares and tosses and turns but he doesn't realize he talks out loud lots of times.

Well, your pal leaves for a few days and turns off the power.

Two more turns were negotiated and marked and in spite of their slow progress, according to the map they were nearing their goal.

The WWW news was either negative or tardy because each took turns bickering at the other until Dean was ready to toss the entire family.

For a long agonizing moment her knees and elbows took turns at the ground, but finally she made it to the chicken coup door.

Wet, sick and horrified, she wept and retched in turns until the nurse arrived.

This alloy, if allowed to solidify completely before chilling, turns into a uniform solid solution, and at still lower temperatures the solid solution breaks up into a pearlite complex.

When did we pass the crossroad taking different turns?

He sat in the caleche, dozing and waking up by turns, and listening for any sound of firing on the right as an indication that the action had begun.

After shaking the dice again, for turns in the single bathroom, we climbed the stairs to our rooms.

After making a few turns, Fred realized he wasn't imagining the car was tailing him.

Over this primary is wound a secondary circuit of five to ten turns which has one end connected to the earth through a variable inductance coil and the other end to an antenna.

Nehemiah also turns his attention to religious abuses.

Rim, largely missing, turns outwards and has slight internal bevel.

Of these formulae '(chosen because illustrated by Greek heroic legends) - (I) is a sanction of barbarous nuptial etiquette; (2) is an obvious ordinary incident; (3) is moral, and both (3) and (1) may pair off with all the myths of the origin of death from the infringement of a taboo or sacred command; (4) would naturally occur wherever, as on the West Coast of Africa, human victims have been offered to sharks or other beasts; (5) the story of flight from a horrible crime, occurs in some stellar myths, and is an easy and natural invention; (6) flight from wizard father or husband, is found in Bushman and Namaqua myth, where the husband is an elephant; (7) success of youngest brother, may have been an explanation and sanction of " tungsten-recht " - Maui in New Zealand is an example, and Herodotus found the story among the Scythians; (8) the bride given to successful adventurer, is consonant with heroic manners as late as Homer; (9) is no less consonant with the belief that beasts have human sentiments and supernatural powers; (to) the " strong man," is found among Eskimo and Zulus, and was an obvious invention when strength was the most admired of qualities; (II) the baffled ogre, is found among Basques and Irish, and turns on a form of punning which inspires an " ananzi " story in West Africa; (12) descent into Hades, is the natural result of the savage conception of Hades, and the tale is told of actual living people in the Solomon Islands and in New Caledonia; Eskimo Angekoks can and do descend into Hades - it is the prerogative of the necromantic magician; (13) " the false bride," found among the Zulus, does not permit of such easy explanation - naturally, in Zululand, the false bride is an animal; (14) the bride accused of bearing be 1st-children, has already been disposed of; the belief is inevitable where no distinction worth mentioning is taken between men and animals.

It turns out we all have a desire to be artists or philosophers or singers or photographers or commentators or reviewers.

But in the future when we have more and better information, if it turns out that some of these methods are not net gains, we will know that and look elsewhere for solutions.

By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.

Destiny clung to her neck, coughing and crying in turns.

The Seine descends from the Langres plateau, flows northwest down to Mry, turns to the west, resumes its north-westerly direction at Montereau, passes through Paris and Rouen and discharges itself into the Channel between Le Havre and Honfleur.

Dinarchus had little individual style and imitated by turns Lysias, Hypereides and Demosthenes.

Thence its northern and northeastern frontier marches with the Punjab and the United Provinces until it touches the river Chambal, where it turns south-eastward for about 200 m., dividing the states of Dholpur, Karauli, Jaipur and Kotah from Gwalior.

The length paid out and the rate of paying out are obtained approximately from the number of turns made by the drum P and its rate of turning.

The Adige, formed by the junction of two streams—the Etsch or Adige proper and the Eisak, both of which belong to Tirol rather than to Italy—descends as far as Verona, where it enters the great plain, with a course from north to south nearly parallel to the rivers last described, and would seem likely to discharge its waters into those of the Po, but below Legnago it turns eastward and runs parallel to the Po for about 40 m., entering the Adriatic by an independent mouth about 8 m.

The Arno, which has its source in the Monte Falterona, one of the most elevated summits of the main chain of the Tuscan Apennines, flows nearly south till in the neighborhood of Arezzo it turns abruptly north-west, and pursues that course as far as Pontassieve, where it again makes a sudden bend to the west, and pursues a westerly course thence to the sea, passing through Florence and Pisa.

The Crati, which flows from Cosenza northwards, and then turns abruptly eastward to enter the same gulf, is the only stream worthy of notice in the rugged peninsula of Calabria; while the arid limestone hills projecting eastwards to Capo di Leuca do not give rise to anything more than a mere streamlet, from the mouth of the Ofanto to the south-eastern extremity of Italy.

It is a white powder, which turns pale yellow on heating, and melts at a red heat.

The molybdates may be recognized by the fact that they give a white precipitate on the addition of hydrochloric or nitric acids to their solutions, and that with reducing agents (zinc and sulphuric acid) they give generally a blue coloration which turns to a green and finally to a brown colour.

During the process the thin walls are stretched and the turns of the spiral become pulled apart without rupturing the wall of the tracheid or vessel, If the pitted type of tracheal element were similarly stretched its continuously thickened walls would resist the stretching and eventually break.

The interest with which we regard the latter no longer turns upon the details of the structuie of its trunk, limbs and roots, to which the living substance of the more superficial parts was subordinated.

If a growing stem receives stronger illumination on one side than another, its apex slowly turns from the vertical in the direction of the light source, continuing its change of position until it is in a direct line with the incident rays.

After running south-east through the grandest scenery, and closely approaching the source of the western Tigris, it turns south-west and leaves the mountains a few miles above Samsat (Samosata; altitude, 1500 ft.).

Here the river turns quite sharply eastward.

At this point the river turns sharply a little north of east, continuing on that course somewhat over 40 m.

The wealth of Russia consisting mainly of raw produce, the trade of the country turns chiefly on the purchase of this for export, and on the sale of manufactured and imported goods I in exchange.

The weight required to cause the downward motion is obtained either by means of the material which has to be transported to the bottom of the hill or by water ballast, while to aid and regulate the motion generally steam or electric motors are arranged to act on the main drums, round which the cable is passed with a sufficient number of turns to prevent slipping.

It had now reached a degree of sanctity and only the priest might touch it; it was sprinkled with water, and anointed with butter; finally, the priest made three turns round it with a lighted torch in his hand, which finally separated it from the world and fitted it for its high purpose.

Amos exhibited Him to his countrymen as lord of the universe, who made the seven stars and Orion and turns the deep midnight darkness into morning.

After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.

It flows east and south in a wide curve, through a broad upper valley past Chippenham and Melksham, after which it turns abruptly west to Bradford-on-Avon, receives the waters of the Frome from the south, and enters the beautiful narrow valley in which lie Bath and Bristol.

The most important river of the name is in southern Ireland, rising in the hills on the borders of the counties Cork and Kerry, and flowing nearly due east for the greater part of its course, as far as Cappoquin, where it turns abruptly southward, and discharges through an estuary into Youghal Bay.