Turnoff

Definition: Turnoff

Turnoff

Noun

1. (informal) something causing antagonism or loss of interest.

2. A side road where you can turn off; "I missed the turnoff and went 15 miles out of my way".

Synonym: Turnoff

Synonym: negative stimulation (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Great TV Turnoff (Fabulous Five, No 24) (reference) The Terrible Turnoff and Me (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Turnoff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Turnoff" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	14	93,893

Expression using "turnoff": gate turnoff thyristor. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "turnoff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏طريق جانبي (bypass, side road, sideway). (various references)

Chinese		�"开. (various references)

Czech		zastavení toku, odboèka (branch, digression, diversion, excursion). (various references)

Danish		slukbar thyristor (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor). (various references)

Dutch		uitschakelbare thyristor (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor), GTO-thyristor (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor), gate turn-off thyristor (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor). (various references)

Farsi		محل چرخش , نقطه تحول , نقطه انحراف , خاموش کردن یاشدن . (various references)

Finnish		hilalta sammutettava tyristori (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor). (various references)

French		route transversale, route latérale, embranchement (turning). (various references)

German		Gate-abschaltbarer Thyristor (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor), Abschaltthyristor (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor), abschaltbarer Thyristor (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor). (various references)

Greek		θυρίστορ με δυνατότητα διακοπής (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor), θυρίστορ διακοπής (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor). (various references)

Hebrew		כביש צ�"�"י (by road, by way, sideroad). (various references)

Italian		tiristore bloccabile (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor), Thyrister disinnescabile (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor). (various references)

Pig Latin		urnofftay

Portuguese		tiristor bloqueado (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor). (various references)

Russian		выключение (release, shutdown, shut-off). (various references)

Spanish		tiristor de desactivación de puerta (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor), tiristor bloqueable (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor). (various references)

Swedish		släckbar tyristor (gate turnoff thyristor, gate turn-off thyristor, turn-off thyristor). (various references)

Turkish		ürün (child, crop, end product, fruit, graduate, growth, harvest, offspring, produce, product, progeny, result, yield). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "turnoff": turnoffs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Turnoff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tordoff. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "turnoff" (pronounced ter"nô'f)
3	-n ô' f	runoff, spinoff, Stroganoff.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-f-n-o-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: runoff.
	-2 letters: fount, front, futon.
	-3 letters: font, fort, four, rout, ruff, runt, toff, tofu, torn, tour, tuff, turf, turn, unto.
	-4 letters: fon, for, fou, fro, fun, fur, nor, not, nut, off, oft, ort, our, out, rot, run, rut, ton, tor, tun, urn.
	-5 letters: no, nu, of, on, or, to, un, ut.
	Words containing the letters "f-f-n-o-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: turnoffs.
	+4 letters: insufflator, unfortified.
	+5 letters: counteroffer, insufflators, overstuffing.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
turnoff	7
turnoff tv	3
turnoff tv week	2
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Turnoff

Definition: Turnoff

Turnoff

Noun

Synonym: Turnoff

Commercial Usage: Turnoff

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Usage Frequency: Turnoff

Expression: Turnoff

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Turnoff

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