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📖 Определения и значения для слова turn

📒 to move or make something move around a central point

  • The wheels of the car began to turn.
  • I can't get the screw to turn.
  • + adv./prep. The blades of the helicopter were turning slowly.

📒 to move your body or part of your body so as to face or start moving in a different direction

  • We turned and headed for home.
  • turn to do something She turned to look at me.
  • + adv./prep. He turned back to his work.

📒 to move something so that it is in a different position or facing a different direction

  • She turned the chair on its side to repair it.
  • Turn the sweater inside out before you wash it.

📒 to change the direction you are moving or travelling in; to make something change the direction it is moving in

  • turn into something He turned into a narrow street.
  • + adv./prep. We turned down a dark alleyway.
  • turn left/right Turn left at the traffic lights.

📒 to bend or curve in a particular direction

  • The road turns to the left after the church.
  • After a while the path turns sharply right.
  • The river turns north at this point.

📒 if you turn a page of a book or magazine, you move it so that you can read the next page

  • turn something He sat turning the pages idly.
  • turn to something Turn to p.23.

📒 to change into a particular state or condition; to make something do this

  • + adj. The leaves were turning brown.
  • They say her hair turned white overnight.
  • I could feel my face turn red with embarrassment.

📒 to aim or point something in a particular direction

  • turn something on somebody/something/yourself Police turned water cannon on the rioters.
  • He turned the gun on himself.
  • turn something to somebody/something/yourself She looked at him then turned her attention back to me.

📒 to start to come in or go out

  • The tide is turning—we'd better get back.

📒 to make or let somebody/something go into a particular place or state

  • turn something + adv./prep. They turned the horse into the field.
  • turn something + adj. to turn the dogs loose

📒 to fold something in a particular way

  • She turned down the blankets and climbed into bed.
  • He turned up the collar of his coat and hurried out into the rain.

📒 to perform a movement by moving your body in a circle

  • to turn cartwheels/somersaults

📒 if a game turns or somebody turns it, it changes the way it is developing so that a different person or team starts to win

📒 to reach or pass a particular age or time

  • She turns 21 in June.
  • It's turned midnight.

📒 when your stomach turns or something turns your stomach, you feel as though you will vomit

📒 to shape something on a lathe

  • to turn a chair leg
  • turned boxes and bowls

📒 as was shown or proved by later events

  • I didn't need my umbrella, as it turned out (= because it didn't rain).

📒 to be well, badly, etc. dressed

📒 likely to be very shocked or angry

  • My father would turn in his grave if he knew.

📒 used to report what somebody says or does, when this is surprising or annoying

  • How could she turn round and say that, after all I've done for her?
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