TO TURN OFF

Definition: TO TURN OFF

TO TURN OFF

1. (a) To dismiss contemptuously; as, to turn off a sycophant or a parasite. (b) To give over; to reduce. (c) To divert; to deflect; as, to turn off the thoughts from serious subjects; to turn off a joke. (d) To accomplish; to perform, as work. (e) (Mech.) To remove, as a surface, by the process of turning; to reduce in size by turning. (f) To shut off, as a fluid, by means of a valve, stopcock, or other device; to stop the passage of; as, to turn off the water or the gas.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO TURN OFF

From now on I'm going to employ relaxation techniques to turn off stress river and mosey gently down contentment creek. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

Ma'am did you call us all the way up here to turn off your kid's Nintendo? (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

I'm sorry, I forgot to turn off my ears. (Lizzie McGuire; writing credit: Ole Kolster)

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

Books

• The Insulin-Resistance Diet : How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat-Making Machine (reference)

  (more book examples)

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It was necessary to change the route, and the shortest way was to turn off by the boulevard.

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Health

Another subset of regulatory T cells acts to turn off or suppress immune cells. (references)

Scientists identified the gene � which is believed to control the functions of several other genes � in 1999. When functioning normally, the MECP2 gene contains instructions for the synthesis of a protein called methyl cytosine binding protein 2 (MeCP2), which acts as one of the many biochemical switches that tell other genes when to turn off and stop producing their own unique proteins. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

In March Nizhniy Novgorod's regional head administrator Sergey Vasin enlisted the aid of local police to turn off the local television transmitter, because he claimed that he had been denied legally mandated access to airwaves during his campaign. (references)

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Aymara

jihuayaña. (various references)

Chinese 

關 (door-screen, exhausted, late, mountain pass, to close, to concern, to involve, to shut). (various references)

German

abstellen (bring to an end, cut off, disconnect, gear, intercept, order off, Park, put away from, put down, put off, release, second, shut off, stop, switch off, to cut off, to intercept, to park, to suppress, to switch off, turn off, turn out), abdrehen (haul off, switch off, to switch off, turn, turn off, veer), abbiegen (bend off, branch off, head off, turn, turn off). (various references)

Hungarian

letér (deviate, to go off, to oblique), eltér (aberrate, back away, deviate, differ, diverge, swerve, to angle, to be unlike sg, to deflect, to depart, to deviate, to go off, to go out of one's way, to yaw, turn), elolt (blow out, extinguish, stifle, to extinguish, to quench, to slake, to smother, turn off), elkanyarodik (to peel, to swerve, to wind, wound), elbocsát (disband, discharge, dismiss, displace, fire, give the sack, lay off, remove, send off, to disband, to discard, to dismiss, to lay off, to pay off, to pipe down, to send away, to send off, to shelve, to shop, to turn away, to unhand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

留める (to cease, to detain, to fasten, to put an end to, to stop), 切る (to be through, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to cut down, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to pause, to punch, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きる (to be through, to behead, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to cut down, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to murder, to pause, to punch, to put on, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to wear), とめる (to detain, to fasten, to give shelter to, to halt, to lodge, to stop). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay urntay offay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: turnoff.

-3 letters: runoff, unroof, unroot.

-4 letters: fount, front, futon, torot, trout, tutor.

-5 letters: font, foot, fort, four, onto, otto, roof, root, roto, rout, ruff, runt, toff, toft, tofu, toon, toot, torn, toro, tort, tour, tout, trot, tuff, tuft, turf, turn, unto.

+4 letters: countereffort.

+5 letters: counterefforts.

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