Turn Over

Definition: Turn Over

Turn Over

Verb

1. Place into the hands or custody of; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers".

2. Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase".

3. To rotate or cause to rotate: "The child rolled down the hill"; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"; "turn over to your left side".

4. Turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration".

5. Do business worth a certain amount of money; "The company turns over ten million dollars a year".

6. Cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; "turn a page of a book".

7. Turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned".

8. Turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse; "flip a coin"; "turn over the pancakes".

9. Think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Synonyms: Turn Over

Attention

Examine cursorily; glance at, glance upon, glance over; cast the eyes over, pass the eyes over; run over, turn over the leaves, dip into, perstringe; skim; (neglect); take a cursory view of.

Change

Innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf.

Giving

Verb: deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower.

Improvement

Advance; (progress); ascend; increase; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover.

Inversion

Verb: be inverted; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize, turn turtle.

Learning

Read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves.

Penitence

Verb: repent, be sorry for; be penitent; Adjective: rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under; (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess; (disclose); humble oneself; beg pardon; (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes; (do penance); learn by experience.

Tergiversation

Draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf; (repent).

Thought

Take into consideration; take counsel; (be advised); commune with oneself, bethink oneself; collect one's thoughts; revolve in the mind, turn over in the mind, run over in the mind; chew the cud upon, sleep upon; take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow.

Transference

Send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose; (interchange); displace; throw; drag; mail, post.

Crosswords: Turn Over

Don't let him turn over on his face or he'll wind up with a cauliflower nose. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Comin' down the years turn over (Black Balloon; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

Please Turn Over (1959)

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Books

• Turn over (reference)

• Turn over a Rain Barrel (reference)

• Turn over Any Stone: A Personal Journey Through the Mystery of Suffering and Faith (reference)

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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.

A F-16CJ of the 77th Fighter Squadron seen in a right turn over South Carolina while flying a training mission. The aircraft is assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw AFB, S.C. (U.S. Air Force p.; photo by Senior Airman Greg L. Davis)

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Neffsville, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Earle Landis turn over their Thanksgiving turkey. Credit: Library of Congress.

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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)

Business

Industry sources believe that the STC will turn over the more operational aspects of the telephone network to the Saudi private sector. (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)

Political Rights

Uzbekistan

The law prohibits parties from funding their candidates' campaigns directly; parties must turn over all campaign money to the Central Election Commission, which then distributes the funds equally among the candidates. (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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Expressions using "turn over": To turn over ♦ To turn over a new leaf ♦ turn over a new leaf ♦ turn over a page ♦ turn over in one's mind ♦ turn over in smb.'s mind ♦ turn over the leaves. Additional references.

Albanian

rrotullohem (bowl along, circle, mill, revolve, slew, turn, turn about, wheel), përmbysem (capsize, fall away, founder, keel over, topple), kthej faqen, kthehem (backtrack, bend, come back, flounce, get back, go back, lurch, move back, redound, rejoin, return, set, slew, start back, take turns, turn aside, turn back, turn round, veer, wheel), ia kaloj (anticipate, distance, do, fare, hand down, outclass, outdo, outrange, outrank, outrun, outstrip, overbalance, overmatch, overshoot, refer, surpass), dorëzoj (cede, consign, deliver, devolve, disgorge, get through, give, give back, give over, give up, hand in, present, reach, serve, yield), bluaj (Bray, crush, digest, flour, grind, mill). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكر في (ruminate), ‏قلب الصفحة, ‏قلب (alter, bring down, capricious, capsize, center, centre, change, convert, core, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, middle, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, topple, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn up, upset, upturn, whimsical), ‏تصفح (browse, laminate, look into, look over, page, peruse, read through, scan, skim, thumb), ‏سلم (accept, admit, agree, allow, commit, consign, deliver, give in, grant, hand over, hierarchy, ladder, postulate, presume, recognize, render, resign, rung, salaam, salute, scale, secure, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in), ‏إنقلب (be inverted, capsize, change over, overturn, recoil, swing, tip over, topple, toss, turn turtle, upset), ‏دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, home, house, operate, orb, orbit, pan, parlor, parlour, residence, revolve, rotate, round, screw, spin, spun, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, twiddle, twirl, up and about, wheel, whirl, wind). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обръщам се (about turn, appeal, apply, resort, turn, turn back, veer, work round), обръщам (bring about, cant, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn round, twist, upset), проучвам (bottom, examine, explore, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, quarry, read up, research, scout, see about, see into, sound out, study, survey, vet), прекатурвам се (pitch over, topple), прелиствам (page through), предавам (carry, convey, deliver, denounce, get through, give, give in, give over, give up, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, resign, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, yield), правя оборот, паля (fire, ignite, light, strike, switch on, turn on). (various references)

Chinese 

翻身 (free oneself, stand up), 翻 (flit about, translate), 交付 , �' (bankrupt, inverted, to change, to collapse, to fail, to fall, to go home, to pour, to the contrary, to tip, to topple, upset). (various references)

Czech

poukázat (refer), převrátit (bend over, invert, overthrow, overturn, pervert, turn up, Upend, upset), otoèit (slue), odkázat (bequeath, endow, hand down, refer), obrátit list, mít obrat. (various references)

Danish

kæntre (capsize), gå i baljen (capsize). (various references)

Dutch

kapseizen (capsize, capsizing). (various references)

Esperanto

renversiĝi, renversi (overthrow, turn, upset). (various references)

Faeroese

kollvelta (overthrow, turn, upset). (various references)

Finnish

mennä kumoon (capsize). (various references)

French

renverser (tumble, turn, turn about). (various references)

German

umblättern. (various references)

Greek 

αναγυρίζω, αναποδογυρίζω (invert, keel, overturn, tip over, topple, turn inside out, upset), ανατρέπομαι (capsize, keel over, overturn, tumble), τζίροσ, τούμπα (somersault, summersault, tuba). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת�"פך (be inverted, roll oneself, tumble, turn, upset), ל�"עביר לי�"י, ל�"סתובב (get about, perambulate, revolve, roll, rotate, slue, swivel, tour, turn, turn around, turn round), לסקף (go round). (various references)

Hungarian

forgat (distort, revolve, rotate, span, spin, spun, swivel, to feather, to indorse, to rotate, to spin, to swivel, to turn over, to twirl, twirl, wield), forgalmaz (to bring in, to net, to put into circulation, to take, to turn over), átfordít (to turn over, to wheel). (various references)

Indonesian

pergantian (alternation, change, commutation), membalik (reverse, ricochet, turn, turn around), bergoler (lie down, roll over), berbalik (turn around, turn back). (various references)

Italian

scuffiare (capsize), rovesciare (capsize, down, Evert, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pour, reverse, shower, slop, spill, spill out, tip, topple, tumble, turn, turn inside out, upset), rivoltare (revolt, turn again, turn inside out, turn round, turn upside down), rigirare (distort, turn round), fare scuffia (capsize), capovolgersi (capsize, upset). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

転�' (falling down, inversion, invert, reverse, tumbling, upset). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

て�"とう (a tip, counter, destiny, divine justice, falling down, inversion, invert, lighting, nodding, over-the-counter, Providence, reverse, shop, shop front, the sun, tumbling, upset, way of heaven). (various references)

Manx

lauejaghys argid, broilley (blunt, burr, hack, hammer down, turn, turn as edge of tool), broillaghey (burr, hack, rivet, turn, turn as edge of tool). (various references)

Norwegian

kantre (capsize, overthrow, turn, upset). (various references)

Pig Latin

urntay overay

Portuguese

voltar-se (upset). (various references)

Romanian

rãsfoi (look into), întoarce o paginã. (various references)

Russian 

переворачиваться (be inverted), переворачивать (pan and tilt, upturn, wamble), перевертываться (flip over), перевертывать (invert, overwind), перевернуть (coup), перелистать (look through), передавать (abalienate, circulate, communicate, consign, convey, deliver, deliver over, devolve, give, hand over, hand over to, impart, leave, pass, pass on, reach, relegate, repeat, sign away, transfer, transfuse, transmit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uznemirenje (disconcerting, disturbance, feeze, perturbation, trouble, upset, vexation), promet (movement, overturn, traffic, turnover), prevrnuti se (capsize, keel over, nose over), preokret (reversal, shift, switch, turnover, upheaval, vicissitude, volte-face), preokrenuti (reverse, transpose, upheave), okrenuti (dial, rotate, turn), obrt (locution, overturn, turn, turnover), izvrnuti (distort, evert, invert, twist), izručiti (deliver, drop, extradite, outpour), izgubljena lopta (turnover). (various references)

Spanish

trastornar (derange, dislocate, disorder, overthrow, overturn, shake, turn, turn about, turn around, unsettle, upset), traspasar (dispose of, give over, give up, overstep, transfer, transfix, transgress), poner al revés, ceder (acquiesce, assign, budge, cede, concede, dispose of, give, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, make over, part with, relent, relinquish, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, waive, yield), dar una vuelta de campana (overturn), entregar (concede, consign, convey, deliver, fetch, furnish, give, give in, give over, give up, hand, hand in, hand over, Lodge, part with, pass, render, render up, serve, show up, spend, submit, supply, surrender, throw, turn in, yield), facturar (bill, check in, invoice), hacer girar (gyrate, pivot, revolve, rotate, turn, turn about, turn around, twiddle, wheel, whirl), 'ir al mar' (capsize), meditar (cogitate, contemplate, deliberate, digest, dwell on, meditate, muse, perpend, ponder, reflect, think, think over), capotar (overturn), pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come in, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, wear off, wear on, while), zozobrar (capsize, fail, heel over, keel over, miscarry), revolver (churn, circulate, mix, stir, toss, turn, turn about, turn around, turn up), revolverse (churn, revolve, squirm, tumble), verse (flinch, get together, meet, rendezvous, show), volcar (capsize, go over, knock over, overthrow, overturn, pull over, push over, tip over, tip up, topple, upset), volver (abduce, call back, come back, cut back, get back, get in, go back, hark back, put back, return, ride back, throw back, to return, turn, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn round, turning), mover (actuate, Bob, budge, cause, dispose, drive, hitch, inch, jar, lead, move, nod, play, prompt, pull, roll, shake, shift, stir, sway, waft, wag, work, wriggle). (various references)

Swedish

vända sig (face, repair, turn), vända (bend, direct, put about, toss, turn, turn around, turn round, veer), välta omkull (overturn), stjälpa omkull (overture, overturn, topple), omsätta (sell), kapsejsa (capsize, keel over), få omkull. (various references)

Turkish

teslim etmek (cede, commit, confide, consign, deliver, deliver up, give in, give up, hand in, hand over, own, resign, submit, surrender, turn in, yield up), takla atmak (do a somersault, flip flap, flip-flop, loop the loop, somersault, tip over, tumble, tumble down over, turn a somersault), devrilmek (fall, fall from, fall over, overset, overturn, tilt over, tip, tip over, topple, topple down, topple over, tumble, tumble down, turn turtle, upset), devrilme (being overturned, overturn, upset), devretmek (alienate, assign, cede, circuit, circulate, convey, deliver, devolve, dispose of, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, pass on, revolve, slew, slue, transfer), devirme (knock down, overturn, overturning, upset), düşünüp taşınmak (calculate, chew, cogitate, cogitate over, debate, debate with oneself, look round, mull over, ponder, ponder over, pore, reason, reason out, reflect, revolve, ruminate, think over, turn over in one's mind, weigh, worry out), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), döndürmek (deflect, return, reverse, revolve, roll, rotate, round off, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn inside out, turn round, twiddle, twirl, veer, veer round, wheel, whip, whirl, wind, wind up), boca etmek (tilt, Upend, wear), alabora olmak (capsize, keel over, overset, overturn, turn turtle), çevirmek (assemble, avert, bowl, change to, commute, convert, decline, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, revert, roll, roll over, screw, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, surround, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone). (various references)

Turkmen 

dьndermek (flip), dцrьюdirmek, зцwrьlmek (overturn, turn inside out). (various references)

Ukrainian

обмірковувати (cast, chew, deliberate, discuss, mull over, perpend, ponder, ponderate, revolve, think over), переробляти (adapt, alter, change, do again, furbish up, make over, readjust, recast, re-do, rehash, remake, remodel, revise, rework, transverse, work over), перевертатися (cant, overset, overturn, tip), перевертати (cant, invert, overcast, overset, overturn, reverse, tip, upturn). (various references)

affero, affero, adfero, mancipo, mancipo mancepo, mancipo, mancepo. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overturn, turnover.

-1 letter: overrun, runover.

-2 letters: retorn, return, router, tenour, tourer, trover, turner, unrove.

-3 letters: noter, outer, outre, overt, rerun, retro, rouen, route, roven, rover, tenor, toner, trone, trove, truer, tuner, vertu, voter.

-4 letters: euro, note, oven, over, rent, rote, roue, rout, rove, ruer, rune, runt, tern, tone, tore, torn, torr, tour, true, tune, turn, unto, vent.

+1 letter: overburnt, overturns, turnovers.

+2 letters: overstrung, overturing, overturned.

+3 letters: enterovirus, overturning, rejuvenator.

+4 letters: overtrumping, rejuvenators.

+5 letters: arteriovenous, enteroviruses, overconstruct, overexuberant, overnutrition, prerevolution, proventriculi, revolutionary.