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BY TURNS

Definition: BY TURNS

BY TURNS

1. (a) One after another; alternately; in succession. (b) At intervals. ``[They] feel by turns the bitter change.'' --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: BY TURNS

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: BY TURNS

English words defined with "BY TURNS": Altern, alternate, Alternateness, alternating, AlternitySubalternateTurn and turn about. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BY TURNS": Diary. (references)

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Use in Literature: BY TURNS

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BY TURNS

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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.

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Expression: BY TURNS

Expression using "BY TURNS": go red and white by turns. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BY TURNS

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

   

Romanian

  

face feţe-feţe (change colour, change countenance, go red and white by turns). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

по очереди. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

i tur och ordning (in turn), ömsom (now ... now, now....now....). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sırayla (in order, in turn, one by one), sıra ile (alternately, in order, one after another). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

gezek-gezigine (in turns), gezegine (in turns). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: BY TURNS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

alternis, invicem. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: BY TURNS

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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