Turnabout

Definition: Turnabout

Turnabout

Noun

1. A decision to reverse an earlier decision.

2. Turning in the opposite direction.

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

Synonyms: Turnabout

And now there's a turnabout, Maybe cause I'm trying (All For You; performing artist: Sister Hazel)

Turnabout (1971)

Eraser - Turnabout (1996)

Turnabout (1979)

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

Theater & Movies

• Martian Successor Nadesico, Vol. 3: Turnabout Attacker (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 40, Episodes 79, 99 & 1: Turnabout Intruder/ The Cage (B&W/Color Version) / The Cage (Full Color Version) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Business

Both have shown a remarkable turnabout in desire for non-fossil (renewable) energy sources, as fossil fuel resources are increasingly being depleted, and as the price for non-polluting energy sources falls. (references)

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Albanian

kthim (conversion, double, handover, metamorphosis, rebate, rebound, recall, recovery, repercussion, restitution, return, transformation, traverse, turn), kthesë (bend, bow, circumvolution, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, jar, offset, oxbow, sinuosity, slew, switch, turn, turn round, twist, volte-face, wheel, wheeling, wind). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تحول أو انقلاب في الإتجاه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ренегатство (apostasy, renegation, tergiversation, turnaround), ренегат (apostate, pervert, renegade, turnaround, turncoat), въртележка (roundabout, whirligig), отвръщане със същото (reciprocation), отмъщение (nemesis, retaliation, retort, revenge, vengeance, vindication), обръщане (conversion, facing, inversion, reversal, turn, turning, veer), обрат (about turn, mutation, phrase, revulsion, turn, turning point), нелоялност (disloyalty, indirectness, infidelity, recreancy), измяна (apostasy, betrayal, double dealing, judas kiss, perfidy, treachery, treason), изменник (apostate, defector, recreant, traitor, turncoat). (various references)

French

volte-face (about turn). (various references)

German

rollenvertauschung, kehrtwendung (about face, about turn), gegenkurs (opposite course). (various references)

Hebrew 

תפ� ית (flip-flop, swerve, swing, turn), פ� י�" אחור� ית (retroversion), �"ת�"פכות (changing, inversion, revesal, turning over). (various references)

Hungarian

ringlispíl (carousal, carousel, carrousel, marry-go-round, merry go round, roundabout, whirligig), megfordulás (turn, turning, turning back, turning over), körhinta (carousel, carrousel, giddy-go-round, marry-go-round, merry go round, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig). (various references)

Italian

dietrofront (right about). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

一�"逆転 (a complete turnabout via a single blow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いち� ぎゃくて�" (a complete turnabout via a single blow). (various references)

Pig Latin

urnabouttay

Portuguese

volta (bent, circuit, detour, dog-collar, gyre, jaunt, meander, regress, return, revolution, round, roundabout, slue, spire, stroll, sweep, tour, turning, twiddle, twirl, twist, wimple, winding), desvio (break, canting, crossroad, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, deviousness, digression, diversion, leakage, meander, misapplication, roundabout, set, sidetrack, switch, turn, turning, veering), curva (bend, bent, bow, crook, flexion, knee, meander, turn, turning, twist, winding), cruzamento (concourse, criss-cross, cross, crossbreed, crossroad, crossroads, folding, frog, interlacement, lathing, network, turning), bifurcação (bifurcation, chevron, divarication, embranchment, furcation, parting), ângulo (angle, bend, elbow, fishhook, turn, turning). (various references)

Russian 

изменение позиции. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrteška (merry go round, round about, turntable), prekoret, karusel (carousel). (various references)

Spanish

tiempo en puerto, tiempo de descarga y carga, vuelta completa, giro total, giro en redondo, cambio completo (reversal). (various references)

Swedish

helomvändning (about turn, aboutface, about-turn, u turn, U-turn, volte-face). (various references)

Turkish

ters yön, ters dönme (eversion, inversion), geri dönüş (return, turnaround), dönek (apostate, capricious, changeable, changeful, deserter, fickle, flukey, fluky, inconstant, lubricious, piker, protean, quitter, rat, Ratter, renegade, turncoat, untrustworthy, versatile, volatile), atlıkarınca (carouselle, merry go round, roundabout). (various references)

Ukrainian

карусель (carousal, carrousel, merry go round, roundabout), зміна позиції, поворот (bend, slew, slue, turn, turn off, turning, veer, veering, wheeling, wind). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "turnabout": turnabouts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Turnabout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tunaboat. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: outburnt, runabout.

-2 letters: burnout, outburn, outturn, turnout.

-3 letters: attorn, auburn, burton, button, outran, outrun, ratton, rubato, rubout, runout, tabour, truant, turban, turbot.

-4 letters: abort, about, baron, baton, battu, boart, bourn, brant, brunt, buran, burnt, butut, ottar, tabor, tabun, tanto, tarot, taunt, trona, trout, turbo, tutor, unbar, urban.

-5 letters: abut, aunt, auto, barn, batt, boar, boat.

+1 letter: turnabouts.

+4 letters: subsaturation.

+5 letters: subsaturations.