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TO A TURN

Definition: TO A TURN

TO A TURN

1. Exactly; perfectly; as, done to a turn; -- a phrase alluding to the practice of cooking on a revolving spit.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: TO A TURN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Truth

Exactly; Adjective: ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any rate, at all events; strictly speaking.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: TO A TURN

Specialty definitions using "TO A TURN": Famoustariff. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO A TURN": Tropic. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO A TURN

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Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired. Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired. Hassan Brubuddy

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: TO A TURN

Expression using "TO A TURN": bake to a turn. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: TO A TURN

Language Translations for "TO A TURN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏في وقته (in due season, opportune). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

препичам (bake to a turn, overdo). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

כראוי (as should be, duly, well, worthily). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay aay urntay

   

Russian 

  

пропекать (bake to a turn). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dobro ispeći (bake to a turn). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

en su punto. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

precis (accurate, bang, dead, even, exact, exactly, just, on time, Plumb, precise, precisely, punctual, quite, that's the idea, that's true, veracious, very), perfekt (consummate, essential, mint, perfect, perfectly, pukka, the perfect tense, tiptop). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำอาหารอย่าง"ี (done to a turn). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mükemmel (accomplished, all around, alpha plus, ambrosial, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, consummate, cool, copybook, Dandy, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famous, famously, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, immense, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), kıvamında. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

точно (accurately, cold, dead, definitely, due, exactly, explicitly, fair, faithfully, flush, just, microscopically, minutely, precisely, prompt, punctually, sharp, true, truly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO A TURN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-n-o-r-t-t-u"

-1 letter: attorn, outran, ratton, truant.

-2 letters: ottar, tanto, tarot, taunt, trona, trout, tutor.

-3 letters: aunt, auto, nota, rant, rato, roan, rota, rout, runt, tarn, taro, tart, taut, tora, torn, tort, tour, tout, trot, tuna, turn, unto.

-4 letters: ant, art, att, nor, not, nut, oar, oat, ora, ort, our, out, ran, rat, rot, run, rut, tan.

 Words containing the letters "a-n-o-r-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: trapunto, turncoat.

 

+2 letters: antitumor, astronaut, fortunate, outlearnt, outrating, trapuntos, turnabout, turncoats.

 

+3 letters: astronauts, attenuator, counteract, eructation, extenuator, lustration, maturation, natatorium, naturopath, obturating, obturation, outstaring, outtrading, punctuator, refutation, reputation, saturation, tournament, truncation, turnabouts, urtication.

 

+4 letters: antineutron, antitumoral, astronautic, attenuators, attribution, continuator, contractual, contracture, counteracts, counterpart, countryseat, deuteration, elutriation, eructations, extenuators, extenuatory, fortunately, frustration, gratulation, importunate, lustrations, maturations, natatoriums, naturopaths, naturopathy, nutritional, obturations, outsmarting, outstarting, parturition, permutation, portmanteau, protuberant, punctuators, refutations, reluctation, reputations, rustication, saturations, sternutator, subcontract, subtraction, tournaments, tribulation, trituration, truncations, unfortunate, unimportant, unpatriotic, urtications, voluntarist.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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