turn
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /tɜːn/
美 /tɜɹn/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A change of direction or orientation.
— Give the handle a turn, then pull it.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.; A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
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A walk to and fro.
— Let's take a turn in the garden.
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A chance to use something shared in sequence with others.
— 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.
— I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- 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.
— They quote a three-day turn on parts like those.
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The transition from one period or era, or hour on the clock, to another.
— turn of the century
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A fit or a period of giddiness.
— I've had a funny turn.
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A change in temperament or circumstance.
— She took a turn for the worse.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- 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.
— One good turn deserves another.
- A single loop of a coil.
- A pass behind or through an object.
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Character; personality; nature.
— 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.For the Term of His Natural Life
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
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A short skit, act, or routine.
— Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances.
- 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.
— 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 […]
动词 v.
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To make a non-linear physical movement.; To move about an axis through itself.
— the Earth turns
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To make a non-linear physical movement.; To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
— Turn the knob clockwise.
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To make a non-linear physical movement.; To change one's direction of travel.
— She turned right at the corner.
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To make a non-linear physical movement.; To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
— She turned the table legs with care and precision.
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To make a non-linear physical movement.; To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
— […]the Poets pen turnes them to ſhapes,[…]
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To make a non-linear physical movement.; To direct or impel (something) into or out of a place.
— Add sugar and butter, then turn the mixture into a dish.
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To make a non-linear physical movement.; To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
— turn the bed covers; turn the pages
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To make a non-linear physical movement.; To navigate through a book or other printed material.
— turn to page twenty; turn through the book
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To make a non-linear physical movement.; To twist or sprain.
— I fell off my bike and turned my ankle severely.
- To make a non-linear physical movement.; Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To make a non-linear physical movement.; Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
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To change condition or attitude.; To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
— Near-synonyms: become, get, go, come, fall, grow, wax
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To change condition or attitude.; To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
— The hillside behind our house isn't generally much to look at, but once all the trees turn it's gorgeous.
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To change condition or attitude.; To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
— Midas made everything turn to gold. He turned into a monster every full moon.
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To change condition or attitude.; To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.; To sour or spoil; to go bad.
— This milk has turned; it smells awful.
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To change condition or attitude.; To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.; To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
— to turn cider or wine
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To change condition or attitude.; To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.; To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
— How long ago was he turned?
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To change condition or attitude.; To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.; To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
— Bruce Banner turns when he is angry: he becomes the Hulk, an incredibly powerful green monster.
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To change condition or attitude.; To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.; To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
— 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.
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To change condition or attitude.; To hinge; to depend.
— The decision turns on a single fact.
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To change condition or attitude.; To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
— The prisoners turned on the warden.
- To change condition or attitude.; To change personal condition.; To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
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To change condition or attitude.; To change personal condition.; To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
— Ile looke no more, / Leaſt my braine turne,[…]
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To change condition or attitude.; To change personal condition.; To sicken; to nauseate.
— The sight turned my stomach.
- To change condition or attitude.; To change personal condition.; To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
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To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
— 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 /[…]
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To complete.
— They say they can turn the parts in two days.
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To make (money); turn a profit.
— 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.
— 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.
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To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
— Ivory turns well.
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
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To translate.
— to turn the Iliad
- To magically or divinely repel undead.
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To carve vegetables into uniform barrel-like or American football-like shapes.
— The hardest part of culinary school was learning to turn vegetables perfectly.
词形变化
词汇关系
衍生词
beturn
even a worm will turn
mill-turn
not know where to turn
not know which way to turn
please turn left
please turn right
stomach-turning
the worm turns
tilt-and-turn
tilt-turn
toss and turn
turn a blind eye
turn about
turn a corner
turn a deaf ear
turn again
turn against
turn a hair
turn a new leaf
turn an honest penny
turn a number of shades of red
turn a page
turn a phrase
turn around
turnaround
turn around one's finger
turn a setback into a comeback
turn aside
turn a trick
turn away
turn back
turn back the clock
turn down
turn flukes
turn forth
turn heads
turn home
turn in
turn in one's grave
turn in on oneself
turn inside-out
turn in succession
turn into
turn inward
turn king's evidence
turn loose
turn off
turn on
turn one on
turn one's back
turn one's coat
turn one's color
turn one's hand to
turn one's life around
turn one's life upside down
turn one's nose up
turn up one's nose
turn one's world upside down
turn on its head
turn on one's heel
turn on red
turn or burn
turn out
turn over
turn pear-shaped
turn queen's evidence
turn round
turnround
turn rusty
turn someone's crank
turn someone's head
turn something into an art form
turn square corners
turn tail
turn the air blue
turn the boat
turn the boat around
turn the clock back
turn the corner
turn the dial
turn the frown upside down
turn the knife
turn the knife in the wound
turn the other cheek
turn the other way
turn the page
turn the scale
turn the screw
turn the screws
turn the table
turn the tables
turn the tide
turn the trick
turn the turtle
turn to
turn to account
turn to custard
turn to dust
turn together
turn to good account
turn to stone
turn traitor
turn tricks
turn Turk
turn turtle
turn two
turn under
turn up
turn upon
turn upside down
turn up the heat
turn with every wind
twist and turn
wheels are turning
about-turn
ampere-turn
at every turn
bad turn
bank-and-turn indicator
Buggins's turn
Buggins' turn
Choctaw turn
clubhouse turn
counterturn
courtesy turn
Cruyff turn
epistemological turn
evil turn
face turn
far turn
filter in turn
flip turn
give someone a turn
good turn
hairpin turn
half-turn
hammerhead turn
handbrake turn
hand's turn
heel/face turn
heel-face turn
heel turn
hook turn
ill turn
Immelmann turn
in-turn
in turn
J-turn
K-turn
left turn
linguistic turn
make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
make the wrong turn at Albuquerque
Marseille turn
moonshiner's turn
one bad turn deserves another
one good turn deserves another
one's turn in the barrel
one turn kill
on the turn
out of turn
out-turn
penalty turn
round turn
sea turn
serve the turn
speak out of turn
stall turn
star turn
Swiss-turn
take a turn
take a turn for the better
take a turn for the worse
take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
take in turn
take it in turns
take one's turn
take the wrong turn at Albuquerque
take turns
talk out of turn
telemark turn
the first turn of the screw pays all debts
three-point turn
to a turn
to the turn of a hair
treacherous turn
tumble turn
turn-and-bank indicator
turn and turn about
turn-based
turn bench
turn button
turn-by-turn
turn-by-turn navigation
turncap
turn construction unit
turn indicator
turn of duty
turn of events
turn of foot
turn of mind
turn of pace
turn of phrase
turn of speed
turn of the century
turn of the screw
turn of the year
turn of words
turn-sick
turn signal
turn stop
turn-taking
U-turn
wait one's turn
wave turn
zero-turn
turning
词源
词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nos
Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos
Proto-Hellenic *tórnos
Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor.
Latin tornus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin tornōbor.
Proto-West Germanic *turnēn
Old English turnian
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Latin tornō
Old French tornerbor.
Middle English turnen
English turn
From Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *turnēn (“to turn, lathe”) (also the source of German turnen and its derivatives) and Old French torner (“to turn”), both from Latin tornāre (“to round off, turn in a lathe”), from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “turning-lathe: a tool used for making circles”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist, bore”). Cognate with Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist, wind”), whence English throw. Displaced native Middle English wenden from Old English wendan (see wend), and Middle English trenden from Old English trendan (see trend), among several other terms.
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nos
Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos
Proto-Hellenic *tórnos
Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor.
Latin tornus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin tornōbor.
Proto-West Germanic *turnēn
Old English turnian
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Latin tornō
Old French tornerbor.
Middle English turnen
English turn
From Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan (“to turn, rotate, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *turnēn (“to turn, lathe”) (also the source of German turnen and its derivatives) and Old French torner (“to turn”), both from Latin tornāre (“to round off, turn in a lathe”), from tornus (“lathe”), from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos, “turning-lathe: a tool used for making circles”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist, bore”). Cognate with Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist, wind”), whence English throw. Displaced native Middle English wenden from Old English wendan (see wend), and Middle English trenden from Old English trendan (see trend), among several other terms.
词源 2
Partly from Anglo-Norman *torn, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), and partly an action noun from the verb turn.
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