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Definition: TO A TURN |
TO A TURN1. Exactly; perfectly; as, done to a turn; -- a phrase alluding to the practice of cooking on a revolving spit. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: TO A TURN |
| Specialty definitions using "TO A TURN": Famous ♦ tariff. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO A TURN": Tropic. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
Expression using "TO A TURN": bake to a turn. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 пропекать (bake to a turn). (various references) dobro ispeći (bake to a turn). (various references) en su punto. (various references) 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) ทำอาหารอย่าง"ี (done to a turn). (various references) 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) точно (accurately, cold, dead, definitely, due, exactly, explicitly, fair, faithfully, flush, just, microscopically, minutely, precisely, prompt, punctually, sharp, true, truly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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