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turn

taking a short walk out and back; "we took a turn in the park"

the act of turning away or in the opposite direction; "he made an abrupt turn away from her"

the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; "he took a turn to the right"

(game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession; "it is my turn"; "it is still my play"

a favor for someone; "he did me a good turn"

an unforeseen development; "events suddenly took an awkward turn"

(sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive

pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry"

become officially one year older; "She is turning 50 this year"

change color; "In Vermont, the leaves turn early"

direct at someone; "She turned a smile on me"; "They turned their flashlights on the car"

alter the functioning or setting of; "turn the dial to 10"; "turn the heat down"

let (something) fall or spill a container; "turn the flour onto a plate"

shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel; "turn the legs of the table"; "turn the clay on the wheel"

change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs"

pass to the other side of; "turn the corner"; "move around the obstacle"

channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something; "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "people turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium"

to send or let go; "They turned away the crowd at the gate of the governor's mansion"

cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; "turn a page of a book"

cause to move around or rotate; "turn a key"; "turn your palm this way"

cause to move along an axis or into a new direction; "turn your face to the wall"; "turn the car around"; "turn your dance partner around"

move around an axis or a center; "The wheels are turning"

get by buying and selling; "the company turned a good profit after a year"

accomplish by rotating; "turn a somersault"; "turn cartwheels"

cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics; "The princess turned the frog into a prince by kissing him"; "The alchemists tried to turn lead into gold"

Synonyms:

• Charybdis,
• Platonic form,
• Platonic idea,
• S-curve,
• a thing for,
• aberrancy,
• aberration,
• about ship,
• about-face,
• access,
• acciaccatura,
• accommodation,
• accomplished fact,
• accomplishment,
• achievement,
• act,
• act of grace,
• act of kindness,
• acta,
• action,
• activate,
• adapt,
• adaptation,
• addle,
• adjustment,
• adventure,
• advert to,
• aesthetic form,
• affinity,
• afterpiece,
• agiotage,
• aim,
• aim at,
• air,
• airing,
• alienate,
• all the time,
• alter,
• alteration,
• alternate,
• alternately,
• always,
• ambit,
• amble,
• ameliorate,
• amelioration,
• an ear for,
• an eye for,
• anamorphism,
• anamorphosis,
• anchor watch,
• angle,
• angle off,
• animus,
• apostasy,
• appeal to,
• appear,
• apply,
• apply to,
• appoggiatura,
• aptitude,
• aptness,
• arabesque,
• arbitrage,
• arc,
• arch,
• archetype,
• arise,
• arouse,
• arrive,
• arsis,
• art form,
• assail,
• assemble,
• asymmetry,
• at every turn,
• attack,
• attend,
• avert,
• axe,
• back and fill,
• backing,
• backsliding,
• bad turn,
• balk,
• bate,
• be changed,
• be contingent on,
• be converted into,
• be here again,
• be hostile to,
• be renewed,
• bear,
• bear away,
• bear off,
• bear to starboard,
• bearing,
• beat,
• beat about,
• beat back,
• beat it,
• become,
• bend,
• bend back,
• bend to,
• bending,
• benefaction,
• benefit,
• benevolence,
• benignity,
• bent,
• betray,
• betterment,
• bias,
• bit,
• blessing,
• block,
• blow,
• blunt,
• bolt,
• boon,
• bore,
• bottom out,
• bout,
• bow,
• bowing,
• box off,
• branch off,
• branching off,
• break,
• break back,
• bring about,
• bring out,
• bring over,
• bring round,
• bring to light,
• brow,
• buckle,
• buckle down,
• build,
• bump,
• business deal,
• buying in,
• by turns,
• cadence,
• cadenza,
• call off,
• campaign,
• cant,
• cant round,
• capacity for,
• capsize,
• carriage,
• cashier,
• cast,
• cast about,
• chance,
• change,
• change back,
• change course,
• change into,
• change of heart,
• change the bearing,
• change the heading,
• changeableness,
• character,
• chaser,
• check,
• checker,
• chop,
• chop and change,
• circle,
• circuit,
• circuitousness,
• circulate,
• circulation,
• circumrotate,
• circumvolute,
• circumvolution,
• climacteric,
• clutch,
• coil,
• coin,
• color,
• coloratura,
• come,
• come about,
• come across,
• come again,
• come and go,
• come around,
• come into,
• come round,
• come round again,
• come up,
• come up again,
• commercial transaction,
• complexion,
• conatus,
• concern,
• concoct,
• conduce,
• conduciveness,
• configuration,
• conflexure,
• conformation,
• consider,
• constantly,
• constitution,
• constitutional,
• construct,
• construction,
• constructive change,
• continuity,
• contort,
• contortion,
• contribute,
• convergence of events,
• conversion,
• convert,
• cool off,
• corkscrew,
• corner,
• countenance,
• coup,
• course,
• courtesy,
• crack,
• crank,
• create,
• crinkle,
• crisis,
• critical juncture,
• critical point,
• crook,
• crookedness,
• crop up,
• crossroads,
• crucial period,
• crumple,
• crunch,
• cry back,
• curdle,
• curl,
• curtain,
• curtain call,
• curtain raiser,
• curve,
• cut,
• cut and run,
• cycle,
• day shift,
• deactivate,
• deal,
• dealings,
• decay,
• declination,
• decline,
• decurve,
• deed,
• defection,
• deflect,
• deflection,
• defy,
• degenerate,
• degeneration,
• degenerative change,
• delight,
• deliver,
• demeanor,
• deny,
• depart,
• depart from,
• departure,
• depend,
• depend on,
• depress,
• derange,
• deteriorate,
• deterioration,
• determine,
• detorsion,
• detour,
• detract,
• develop,
• deviance,
• deviancy,
• deviate,
• deviation,
• device,
• deviousness,
• diastole,
• diathesis,
• difference,
• diffract,
• diffuse,
• dig up,
• digress,
• digression,
• direct,
• direction,
• directionize,
• disaffect,
• disclose,
• discompose,
• discontinue,
• discontinuity,
• discover,
• discursion,
• disedge,
• disenchant,
• disenchantment,
• disgust,
• disillusion,
• dismiss,
• disorder,
• disperse,
• displease,
• dispose,
• disposition,
• disproportion,
• disservice,
• distort,
• distortion,
• divagate,
• divagation,
• divaricate,
• divarication,
• diverge,
• divergence,
• diversification,
• diversify,
• diversion,
• diversity,
• divert,
• divertimento,
• divertissement,
• division,
• dizzy round,
• do a flip-flop,
• do an about-face,
• dogleg,
• dogwatch,
• doing,
• doings,
• dome,
• double,
• double a point,
• downbeat,
• draw the teeth,
• dress,
• drift,
• drifting,
• drive,
• drive back,
• dull,
• eagerness,
• ebb and flow,
• eccentricity,
• eddy,
• effort,
• eject,
• embellishment,
• embow,
• emergency,
• employ,
• endeavor,
• energize,
• enterprise,
• epilogue,
• equip,
• equity capital,
• errantry,
• eventuate,
• everywhere,
• evict,
• evolve,
• exchange,
• excite,
• excursion,
• excursus,
• exigency,
• exode,
• exodus,
• exorbitation,
• expedition,
• expel,
• exploit,
• expose,
• expository scene,
• express,
• extinguish,
• extremity,
• fabricate,
• face,
• facial appearance,
• faculty,
• fait accompli,
• fancy,
• fascination,
• fashion,
• favor,
• feat,
• feature,
• features,
• feeling for,
• felicity,
• fend off,
• fetch about,
• figuration,
• figure,
• finale,
• find,
• finger,
• fioritura,
• fire,
• fit,
• fit out,
• fitting,
• fix,
• fix on,
• flair,
• flection,
• flee,
• flex,
• flexure,
• flier,
• flight,
• flip-flop,
• flop,
• flounder,
• flourish,
• fluctuate,
• flutter,
• forced march,
• form,
• format,
• formation,
• formulate,
• frame,
• fright,
• full circle,
• full time,
• garb,
• geanticline,
• genius,
• genius for,
• genre,
• geosyncline,
• gest,
• gift for,
• gimmick,
• give back,
• give in,
• gnarl,
• go,
• go about,
• go around,
• go back,
• go bad,
• go into,
• go off,
• go round,
• go through phases,
• go to bed,
• go to sleep,
• good deed,
• good offices,
• good turn,
• grace,
• grace note,
• gradual change,
• grain,
• grand tour,
• graveyard shift,
• guise,
• gurge,
• gybe,
• gyrate,
• gyration,
• gyre,
• hairpin,
• hairpin turn,
• half time,
• hand,
• hand in,
• hand over,
• handiwork,
• hang,
• happen,
• hark back,
• harm,
• haul around,
• have a tendency,
• have recourse to,
• head,
• heave round,
• heel,
• hike,
• hinge,
• hinge on,
• hit upon,
• hoke act,
• hold a heading,
• hold on,
• hook,
• hump,
• hunch,
• idiosyncrasy,
• imbalance,
• impassion,
• impression,
• improperly,
• improve,
• improvement,
• imprudently,
• in rotation,
• in succession,
• in turn,
• inappropriately,
• incidental,
• incidental note,
• inclination,
• incline,
• incurvate,
• incurve,
• indirection,
• indiscreetly,
• individualism,
• inflect,
• inflection,
• inform on,
• injury,
• innate aptitude,
• inner form,
• inning,
• innings,
• interlude,
• intermezzo,
• intermission,
• intermit,
• interpretation,
• intort,
• introduction,
• inverse,
• invert,
• irregularity,
• jar,
• jaunt,
• jibe,
• job,
• jolt,
• journey,
• junket,
• keel over,
• kick out,
• kidney,
• kind deed,
• kind offices,
• kindly act,
• kindness,
• knack,
• knock over,
• knot,
• knuckle down,
• labor of love,
• lap,
• lapse,
• layout,
• lead,
• lean,
• leaning,
• level at,
• liability,
• liking,
• lineaments,
• lines,
• liquidation,
• lobster trick,
• long mordent,
• look to,
• looks,
• loop,
• lopsidedness,
• lurch,
• maelstrom,
• make,
• make over,
• make up,
• makeup,
• maneuver,
• manner,
• manufacture,
• march,
• matrix,
• meander,
• measure,
• meet,
• meliorate,
• melioration,
• mental set,
• merchandise,
• mercy,
• mettle,
• mien,
• mind,
• mind-set,
• miss stays,
• mitigate,
• mitigation,
• mitzvah,
• modality,
• mode,
• model,
• modification,
• modify,
• modulate,
• modulation,
• mold,
• mordent,
• moulder,
• move,
• mush,
• mutate,
• mutation,
• mutiny,
• mutual affinity,
• mutual attraction,
• nature,
• nauseate,
• negotiation,
• night shift,
• number,
• obligation,
• oblique,
• obliquity,
• obtund,
• occur,
• offend,
• offer,
• office,
• operation,
• opportunity,
• orbit,
• ornament,
• oscillate,
• oust,
• out of order,
• out of turn,
• outing,
• overt act,
• overthrow,
• overtime,
• overturn,
• oxbow,
• package deal,
• package tour,
• parade,
• parry,
• part time,
• partiality,
• pass,
• pass into,
• passage,
• pattern,
• penchant,
• pendulate,
• peregrination,
• pererration,
• performance,
• peripatetic journey,
• peripateticism,
• physiognomy,
• pick up,
• pilgrimage,
• pinch,
• pirouette,
• pitch in,
• pivot,
• pivot about,
• place,
• pleasure trip,
• plunge,
• ply,
• point,
• point at,
• point to,
• ponder over,
• pop up,
• port,
• posture,
• pralltriller,
• predilection,
• predisposition,
• preference,
• prejudice,
• presence,
• present,
• prevent,
• probability,
• proceeding,
• proclivity,
• produce,
• production,
• proffer,
• profit taking,
• progress,
• prologue,
• promenade,
• proneness,
• propensity,
• prototype,
• prove,
• pull,
• pulsate,
• pulse,
• push,
• put,
• put about,
• put back,
• put off,
• put out,
• put together,
• putrefy,
• qualification,
• quirk,
• radical change,
• ramble,
• rambling,
• rat race,
• re-creation,
• readiness,
• realignment,
• reappear,
• rebel,
• rebuff,
• recidivation,
• recidivism,
• reciprocally,
• reclamation,
• reconversion,
• recur,
• recurve,
• redesign,
• redound to,
• reel,
• refashion,
• refer to,
• reflect,
• reflection,
• reflex,
• reform,
• reformation,
• refract,
• refuse,
• regress,
• regression,
• rehabilitation,
• reinstatement,
• reject,
• relapse,
• relate to,
• relay,
• relief,
• remaking,
• remodel,
• renewal,
• reoccur,
• reorganize,
• repeat,
• repel,
• repress,
• repulse,
• res gestae,
• reshape,
• reshaping,
• resort to,
• restitution,
• restoration,
• restructuring,
• result,
• retire,
• retrocession,
• retroflex,
• retrogradation,
• retrogression,
• retroversion,
• retund,
• return,
• returning,
• reveal,
• reversal,
• reverse,
• reversion,
• revert,
• reverting,
• revival,
• revive,
• revivification,
• revolt,
• revolution,
• revolve,
• revulsion,
• rick,
• ride,
• rig out,
• right-about,
• ring the changes,
• roll,
• roll around,
• rot,
• rotate,
• rotation,
• roulade,
• round,
• round a bend,
• round a corner,
• round a point,
• round trade,
• round trip,
• rounds,
• routine,
• rub,
• rubberneck tour,
• run,
• run away,
• sack,
• safari,
• sag,
• sally,
• saunter,
• say,
• scallop,
• scalping,
• scare,
• scatter,
• scene,
• schlep,
• scoot,
• scram,
• screw,
• seesaw,
• seizure,
• sell,
• sensitivity to,
• sequentially,
• series,
• serpentine,
• serve,
• service,
• set,
• set in motion,
• set toward,
• set upon,
• shape,
• sheer,
• shift,
• shifting,
• shifting course,
• shifting path,
• shock,
• shoot,
• shot,
• show a tendency,
• show up,
• shtick,
• shuffle,
• sicken,
• sight on,
• significant form,
• single mordent,
• sinuosity,
• skedaddle,
• sketch,
• skew,
• skit,
• slant,
• slew,
• slink,
• slipping back,
• slue,
• snake,
• soft spot,
• song and dance,
• sour,
• speculation,
• spell,
• spin,
• spiral,
• split schedule,
• split shift,
• spoil,
• spot sale,
• sprain,
• spring,
• stagger,
• stalk,
• stamp,
• stance,
• stand,
• stand-up comedy act,
• start,
• start up,
• steer,
• step,
• stimulate,
• stint,
• stockjobbery,
• stockjobbing,
• stop,
• strain,
• strait,
• straying,
• streak,
• stretch,
• stripe,
• striptease,
• stroke,
• stroll,
• structure,
• stunt,
• style,
• submit,
• successively,
• sudden change,
• sunrise watch,
• surface,
• surge,
• surprise,
• surrender,
• susceptibility,
• swag,
• sway,
• sweep,
• swerve,
• swerving,
• swing,
• swing round,
• swing shift,
• swing the stern,
• swinging,
• swirl,
• switch,
• switch off,
• switch on,
• swivel,
• sympathy,
• systole,
• tack,
• take a turn,
• take off,
• take turns,
• take up,
• talent,
• teeter,
• teeter-totter,
• tell on,
• temper,
• temperament,
• tend,
• tend to go,
• tendency,
• tender,
• tenor,
• terminate,
• thesis,
• thing,
• thing done,
• thrill,
• throw about,
• throw out,
• thwart,
• time,
• time at bat,
• titillate,
• tone,
• torsion,
• tortuosity,
• total change,
• totter,
• tour,
• tour de force,
• tour of duty,
• train,
• train upon,
• traipse,
• traits,
• tramp,
• transaction,
• transform,
• transition,
• transplace,
• transpose,
• trek,
• trend,
• trick,
• trip,
• tropism,
• trudge,
• turn a corner,
• turn a pirouette,
• turn about,
• turn against,
• turn around,
• turn aside,
• turn away,
• turn awry,
• turn back,
• turn down,
• turn for,
• turn in,
• turn into,
• turn of mind,
• turn of work,
• turn off,
• turn on,
• turn out,
• turn over,
• turn round,
• turn tail,
• turn the corner,
• turn to,
• turn turtle,
• turn up,
• turn upon,
• turn upside down,
• turnabout,
• turning,
• turning point,
• twine,
• twirl,
• twist,
• twist and turn,
• type,
• unbalance,
• uncover,
• undergo a change,
• undertaking,
• undo,
• undulate,
• unearth,
• unhinge,
• unsettle,
• unsymmetry,
• upbeat,
• upheaval,
• upset,
• use,
• vacillate,
• variation,
• variety,
• vary,
• vault,
• veer,
• veer around,
• venture,
• venture capital,
• verge,
• vibrate,
• violent change,
• visage,
• volte-face,
• vortex,
• voyage,
• walk,
• walking tour,
• wamble,
• wandering,
• warp,
• watch,
• waver,
• wax and wane,
• way,
• weaken,
• weakness,
• wear,
• wear ship,
• weave,
• whack,
• wheel,
• wheel about,
• wheel around,
• whip,
• whirl,
• whirlpool,
• whirlwind,
• whorl,
• willingness,
• wind,
• withdraw,
• wobble,
• work,
• work shift,
• work toward,
• work up,
• works,
• worm,
• worsen,
• worsening,
• wrench,
• wrest,
• wring,
• writhe,
• wrong,
• yaw,
• yield,
• zigzag