TO TURN OVER

Definition: TO TURN OVER

TO TURN OVER

1. (a) To change or reverse the position of; to overset; to overturn; to cause to roll over. (b) To transfer; as, to turn over business to another hand. (c) To read or examine, as a book, while, turning the leaves. ``We turned o'er many books together.'' --Shak. (d) To handle in business; to do business to the amount of; as, he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO TURN OVER

Figure 7. Aime' minimum temperature recording thermometer. This thermometer was designed to be made to turn over at the desired depth and retain the minimal temperature reading at that depth while returning to the surface. Aime' is the originator of the concept of the reversing thermometer. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

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The coffee began to turn over in the gallon can, and the smell of coffee rose from it.

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Health

A child with Down syndrome is often slow to turn over, sit, stand, and respond. (references)

Civil Liberties

Seychelles

In 2000 the Government had sued Regar's editor and publisher for contempt for failing to turn over a letter. (references)

Seychelles

Following diplomatic and public protest over the lawsuits, the Government requested that the cases be postponed until January 2002. In July the Constitutional Court ruled that Regar did not have to turn over to the Government a copy of a letter published by the paper. (references)

Human Rights

Tunisia

Local phone, fax, and copy shops require users to turn over their identification cards when requesting to send faxes. (references)

Trade

China

To better control this flow, almost all Chinese enterprises and agencies are required to turn over their foreign currency earnings to the banks in exchange for renminbi. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "TO TURN OVER": To turn over a new leaf. Additional references.

Chinese 

交 (to deliver, to intersect, to make friends, to pay). (various references)

German

übergeben (bequeath, commit, consign, consigned, cross, give over, go beyond, hand, hand over, present, refer, remand, render up, surrender, to consign, to deliver (from), to transfer, transfer, turn over). (various references)

Hungarian

túlcsavar, lapoz (to leaf, to turn a page), kifordít (to turn inside out, to turn up, twist), hátára fordul, forgat (distort, revolve, rotate, span, spin, spun, swivel, to feather, to indorse, to rotate, to spin, to swivel, to twirl, turn over, twirl, wield), forgalmaz (to bring in, to net, to put into circulation, to take, turn over), felhány, felfordul (to capsize, to careen, to overturn, to pop out, to somersault, to somerset, to turn a complete somersault, to turn turtle, to turn up), felfordít (to bowl over, to cant, to dislocate, to invert, to overturn, to reverse, to roll over, tumble, upset), felborít (capsize, overset, overthrow, to blow over, to bowl over, to cant, to capsize, to push over, to roll over, to tilt, to tip over, to tumble down, upset), buktat, átpártol (go over, to change sides, to come over, to desert, to go over), átgondol (to go over, to retrace), átfordít (to wheel, turn over). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

譲り渡す (to cede, to hand over), 譲る (to assign, to convey, to dispose of, to hand over, to sell, to surrender, to transmit, to yield), 翻る (to flutter, to wave), 反す (to change, to turn upside down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひっくりかえす (to knock over, to overturn, to turn inside out, to upset), ひるがえる (to flutter, to wave), で�"ぐりがえる (to turn a somersault, to turn head over heels), かえす (to change, to hatch, to incubate, to return something, to send back, to turn upside down), かえる (frog, to alter, to amend, to change, to come back, to come home, to convert, to exchange, to go back, to go home, to hatch out, to interchange, to replace, to return, to revise, to send back, to substitute, to turn upside down, to vary), めくる (to strip off, to tear off, to turn pages of a book), ゆずりわたす (to cede, to hand over), ゆずる (to assign, to convey, to dispose of, to hand over, to sell, to surrender, to transmit, to yield), はぐる (to roll up). (various references)

Manx

dy yiargaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay urntay overay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: overturn, turnover.

-3 letters: outvote, overrun, runover, torrent, torture.

-4 letters: enroot, nutter, retorn, retort, return, rooter, rotten, rotter, router, tenour, tenuto, tooter, torero, torten, tourer, touter, trover, turner, turret, unroot, unrove.

-5 letters: noter, otter, outer, outre, overt, rerun, retro, rotor, rotte, rouen, route, roven, rover, tenor, toner, torot, torte, toter, trone, trout, trove, truer, tuner.

+3 letters: overconstruct, overnutrition.

+4 letters: overconstructs, overnutritions, oversaturation.

+5 letters: overconstructed, oversaturations.

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