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Definition: BY TURNS |
BY TURNS1. (a) One after another; alternately; in succession. (b) At intervals. ``[They] feel by turns the bitter change.'' --Milton. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Correlation | Adverb: mutually, mutatis mutandis; vice versa; each other, one another; by turns; reciprocally; Adjective: |
Interchange | Adverb: in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about; each in his turn, everyone in his turn. |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | By turns; in turn, in rotation; alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and tie, round and round. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BY TURNS |
| English words defined with "BY TURNS": Altern, alternate, Alternateness, alternating, Alternity ♦ Subalternate ♦ Turn and turn about. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BY TURNS": Diary. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit. So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died, Erased all entries of his own and cried: "I'll judge you by your diary." Said Hearst: "Thank you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First" -- Straightway producing, jubilant and proud, That record from a pocket in his shroud. The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er, Each stupid line of which he knew before, Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit; Then gravely closed the book and gave it back. "My friend, you've wandered from your proper track: You'd never be content this side the tomb -- For big ideas Heaven has little room, And Hell's no latitude for making mirth," He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth. "The Mad Philosopher" |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "BY TURNS": go red and white by turns. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "BY TURNS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | поред (in succession, in turn, one after another). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vuorotellen (and ... alternately, in turn), vuoroittain (alternately, in shifts, in turn), vuoroin (alternately). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκ περιτροπήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חליפות (alternately, interchangeability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rendre (after each other, by order of succession, consecutively, successively), felváltva (alternately, in turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berganti-ganti (keep on changing, take turns), bergantian (alternate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 交代で (alternately), 持ち回り (rotation), 入れ替わり立ち替わり , 入れ代わり立ち代わり . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いれかわりたちかわり, "うたいで (alternately), もちまわり (rotation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ybay urnstay face feţe-feţe (change colour, change countenance, go red and white by turns). (various references) по очереди. (various references) i tur och ordning (in turn), ömsom (now ... now, now....now....). (various references) sırayla (in order, in turn, one by one), sıra ile (alternately, in order, one after another). (various references) gezek-gezigine (in turns), gezegine (in turns). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alternis, invicem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-n-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: brunts. | |
-2 letters: brunt, bunts, burns, burnt, burst, busty, nutsy, runts, runty, rusty, turns, yurts. | |
-3 letters: brut, buns, bunt, burn, burs, bury, bust, busy, buts, buys, nubs, nuts, rubs, ruby, runs, runt, rust, ruts, snub, stub, stun, tubs, tuns, turn, urbs, urns, yurt. | |
-4 letters: bun, bur, bus, but, buy, bys, nub, nus, nut, rub, run. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-n-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: butyrins, subentry. | |
+3 letters: stubbornly. | |
+4 letters: insalubrity, inscrutably, subcontrary, subindustry. | |
+5 letters: blusteringly, constabulary, disturbingly, insurability, subcentrally, subnormality. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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