Turned Out

Definition: Turned Out

Turned Out

Adjective

1. Dressed well or smartly; "the girls were well turned out and smart".

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Crosswords: Turned Out

The plan, as it turned out, was as simple and as dumb as anything we'd ever done. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

I'd marry you if it turned out you had no blood at all. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

I once thought I had mono for an entire year, It turned out I was just really bored. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner. Based on the sketch from Saturday Night Live.)

Boy, what a jerk I turned out to be. Dead! (Always; writing credit: Chandler Sprague; David Boehm)

You'd think he would've turned out better. (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass ("Heart of Glass"; performing artist: Blondie)

It turned out so right, (Strangers in the Night; performing artist: Frank Sinatra)

I'm glad that you turned out to be (I'm Glad; performing artist: JENNIFER LOPEZ)

And it was all that you turned out to be (Vision of Love; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

Guess it turned out in the end (Too Bad; performing artist: Nickelback)

Turned Out Nice Again (1941)

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Volunteers helping clean up the wetlands and waterfront area around Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. Local NOAA personnel turned out in force for this event including Dr. Russ Bellmer of the NOAA NMFS Office of Habitat Conservation. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Now San Francisco-style sourdough bread can be baked anywhere in the world. Which turned out not to be bad news for the City by the Bay. Pure cultures of L. sanfranciscoare now grown commercially and are commonly used by San Francisco bakers to control the quality of their product. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

The Late Hon. Erastus Corning / / photographed by E.S.M. Haines, Albany, New York. An alms basin. Turned out / drawn by Sol Eytinge, Jun., from a sketch by Thomas Worth. Credit: Library of Congress.

Enzo Ferrari left, founder and owner of the Ferrari Auto factories Modena, Italy, and technicians look over a 1959 racing car turned out by his workers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Manpower. Negro arsenal workers. Robert Scott, one of the many Negro workers in a large Eastern arsenal, is fondling a little "bundle for Berlin." These 75 mm shells are being turned out on a mass production basis in this arsenal which works around the cl. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells are carefully gauged to ensure perfectly uniform ammunition for our fighting men. A converted Midwest auto plant is now producing these shells as efficiently as it turned out parts for. Credit: Library of Congress.

No second guesses. Every part of every gun turned out for national defense is inspected for accuracy. Inspector at an eastern arsenal checks the dimensions of a finished trunnion for a 16-inch gun, barbette carriage. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ready for a payload. Inspectors check the assembly of a railway carriage which will soon carry an 8-inch gun. The guns are turned out in an eastern plant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Business district. Bench workers finishing a breech housing for a medium caliber gun in a large eastern arsenal. This is a section of the business part of one of the guns being turned out for the war production program. Credit: Library of Congress.

Inspectors instructed. Student inspectors learn the ins and outs of their trade at an eastern arsenal. The mechanism under discussion is that of a 37 mm gun anti-aircraft carriage, M-3, one of the army being turned out for war work. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This cortege was so long that when the first waggon reached the barriere, the last had hardly turned out of the boulevard.

But it turned out as I have said.

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Health

ApoE, it turned out, is much more common among Alzheimer's patients than among the general population. (references)

In the last 15 years, several important diseases of unknown cause have turned out to be complications of foodborne infections. (references)

The diagnosis, in her case, turned out to be Pick's disease, another brain disease that is similar in many ways to Alzheimer's. (references)

Business

However, it turned out to be a success because only a minimal amount of fresh capital was needed for the project. (references)

The government postponed development of necessary legal and regulatory infrastructure and, as a result, regulation of the banking sector turned out to be insufficient to safeguard deposits or to head off a system-wide banking crisis. (references)

Economic History

Namibia

Almost 98% of registered voters turned out to elect members of the constituent assembly. (references)

China

Normal market mechanisms were disrupted, agricultural production fell behind, and China's people exhausted themselves producing what turned out to be shoddy, unsalable goods. (references)

Iceland

After four 4-year terms as the world's first and only elected woman president, the widely popular Vigdis Finnbogadottir chose not to run for re-election in 1996. More than 86% of voters turned out in the June 29, 1997 presidential elections to give former leftist party chairman Olafur Ragnar Grimsson a 41% plurality and relatively comfortable 12% victory margin over the closest of three other candidates. (references)

Minorities

Spain

After the two assailants were apprehended, the residents of Albaladejo, often led by the mayor, turned out in force to protest their incarceration and petition for their release. (references)

Worker Rights

Moldova

Allegedly, traffickers know when orphan girls are to be turned out of their institutions and are waiting for them. (references)

Mexico

The STPS and the JLCA also have registered unions that turned out to be run by extortionists or labor racketeers falsely claiming to represent workers. (references)

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Expressions using "turned out": be turned out ♦ things have so turned out that. Additional references.

Finnish

ilmeni (että hän oli, he turned out to be). (various references)

Hungarian

kimunkált, kiesztergált. (various references)

Indonesian

ternyata (apparently, it appear, it turned out). (various references)

Italian

uscire (be drawn, be issued, be turned out, come out, exit, get out, go, go out, leave, stick up, walk out). (various references)

Pig Latin

urnedtay outay

Russian 

как оказалось (as it turned out). (various references)

Swedish

det har fogat sig så att (things have so turned out that). (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: untutored.

-2 letters: outturn, turnout, tutored.

-3 letters: detour, dotter, enduro, nutted, nutter, outrun, redout, rodent, rotted, rotten, rotund, routed, runout, rutted, tenour, tenuto, torten, toured, touted, touter, turned, undoer, untrod, untrue.

-4 letters: donut, doter, drone, noted, noter, nuder, otter, outed, outer, outre, redon, rotte, rouen, round, route, tenor, toned, toner, torte, toted, toter, trend, trode, trone.

+3 letters: outintrigued, unobstructed.

+4 letters: nonstructured, rectitudinous, unconstructed.

+5 letters: undernutrition.