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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deviation from a straight course; a turn.
- noun The shaping of metal or wood on a lathe.
- noun Shavings produced in shaping metal on a lathe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of one who or of that which turns. Specifically
- noun The practice of regular gymnastics according to the system of F. L. Jahn. See
turner , 4. - noun A winding; deviation from the straight, direct, or established course; a bend; a turn; also, the place where a road or street diverges or branches out from another.
- noun Milit., a manœuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.
- noun In obstetrics, the rectification of a malpresentation by bringing down the head or the feet. See
version . - noun The art or practice of shaping objects by means of cutting-tools while the objects themselves are revolved rapidly on a lathe.
- noun plural The chips detached in the process of turning.
- noun In ceramics, the operation of completing or rectifying the shape of a vase, or the like, before it is fired.
- noun A turn; a movement back and forth.
- noun The part of any textile fabric, leather, or any similar material turned in or under, to avoid making a raw edge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a flexure; a meander.
- noun The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.
- noun Deviation from the way or proper course.
- noun Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various forms by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
- noun The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned; -- usually used in the plural.
- noun (Mil.) A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.
- noun a kind of lathe having a vertical spindle and horizontal face plate, for turning and boring large work.
- noun See the Note under
Drawbridge . - noun an engine lathe.
- noun a lathe used by turners to shape their work.
- noun See the Note under
Pair , n. - noun the point upon which a question turns, and which decides a case.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A
turn ordeviation from astraight course . - noun A
shaping ofwood ormetal on alathe . - noun
Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe. - verb Present participle of
turn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe
- noun the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe
- noun the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- noun a movement in a new direction
- noun the activity of shaping something on a lathe
- noun act of changing in practice or custom
Etymologies
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Examples
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She glanced up at our entry, her expression turning sour.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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She glanced up at our entry, her expression turning sour.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Her smile fading and her expression turning to one of mild confusion, Harstad asked, “I beg your pardon?”
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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Morris, born in 1967, has made a name turning out abstracts painted with household gloss.
Tate artist Sarah Martin 'unfolded' our works, claim leading origami designers 2011
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Her smile fading and her expression turning to one of mild confusion, Harstad asked, “I beg your pardon?”
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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Tropp asked, his expression turning to one of concern.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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Tropp asked, his expression turning to one of concern.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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We also delayed our record for three months and everybody pulled out all this crap about the label turning it down.
Mike Ragogna: Augustana & Beyond: A Conversation with Counting Crows' Adam Duritz 2010
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We also delayed our record for three months and everybody pulled out all this crap about the label turning it down.
Mike Ragogna: Augustana & Beyond : A Conversation with Counting Crows' Adam Duritz 2010
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She pressed her lips together, her expression turning pensive.
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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- S-curve
- aberrancy
- aberrant
- aberration
- aberrative
- about-face
- ambages
- ambagious
- anfractuosity
- anfractuous
- angle
- angular momentum
- angular motion
- angular velocity
- axial motion
- bend
- bending
- bias
- bow
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- branching off
- centrifugation
- circling
- circuition
- circuitous
- circuitousness
- circuitry
- circularity
- circulation
- circumambages
- circumambience
- circumambiency
- circumambulation
- circumbendibus
- circumflexion
- circumgyration
- circumlocution
- circumlocutory
- circummigration
- circumnavigation
- circumrotation
- circumvolution
- conflexure
- convolution
- convolutional
- corner
- crinkle
- crinkling
- crook
- curve
- declination
- deflection
- departing
- departure
- desultory
- detour
- deviance
- deviancy
- deviant
- deviating
- deviation
- deviative
- deviatory
- devious
- deviousness
- digression
- digressive
- discursion
- discursive
- dissuasion
- divagation
- divarication
- divergence
- diversion
- dogleg
- double
- drift
- drifting
- errant
- errantry
- erratic
- excursion
- excursive
- excursus
- exorbitation
- flection
- flex
- flexuose
- flexuosity
- flexuous
- flexuousness
- flexure
- full circle
- geanticline
- geosyncline
- gyrating
- gyration
- gyre
- gyring
- hairpin
- hairpin turn
- indirect
- indirection
- inflection
- intorsion
- involute
- involuted
- involution
- involutional
- labyrinthine
- mazy
- meander
- meandering
- meandrous
- obliquity
- orbit
- orbiting
- out-of-the-way
- oxbow
- pererration
- pivoting
- planetary
- rambling
- reeling
- reflection
- reverse
- reversion
- revolution
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- right-about
- rivose
- rivulation
- rivulose
- roll
- rolling
- rotating
- rotation
- rotational motion
- roundabout
- roundaboutness
- rounding
- roving
- ruffled
- serpentine
- sheer
- shift
- shifting
- shifting course
- shifting path
- sinuate
- sinuation
- sinuose
- sinuosity
- sinuous
- sinuousness
- skew
- slant
- slinkiness
- snakiness
- snaky
- spin
- spinning
- spiral
- spiraling
- stray
- straying
- sweep
- swerve
- swerving
- swinging
- swirling
- swiveling
- tack
- torsion
- torsional
- tortile
- tortility
- tortuosity
- tortuous
- tortuousness
- trolling
- trundling
- turbination
- turn
- turnabout
- twirling
- twist
- twisting
- twisty
- undirected
- undulation
- vagrant
- variation
- veer
- veering
- volte-face
- volutation
- volution
- wandering
- warp
- wave
- waving
- wheeling
- whir
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- winding
- wreathlike
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- yaw
- zigzag
gangerh commented on the word turning
Film is running in camera. See also rolling and speed.
July 7, 2008