Upturn

Definition: Upturn

Upturn

Noun

1. An upward movement or trend as in business activity.

Date "upturn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	That part of a felt or flexible-metal flashing, or roof covering which turns up beside a wall without being tucked into it, and is covered usually with a stepped flashing. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
UPTURN	English	Umbrella Proposal for Telematics for Users and Research Networks	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Crosswords: Upturn

Specialty definitions using "upturn": Winds. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Most notable is the upturn in household purchases of capital goods. (references)
		Owners will also be eligible for the scrap rebate when they de-register their cars after their 10-year life spans end. The LTA hopes that these new rules will encourage more people to bid for their own COEs when open bidding starts in October this year. Authorized motor traders are already bracing themselves for a possible upturn in parallel imports. (references)
Economic History	Denmark	Since 1995, the Faroese economy has seen a noticeable upturn, but remains extremely vulnerable. (references)
	Colombia	The post-recession upturn is being seen in increasing imports in response to pent-up local demand. (references)
	New Zealand	Many of those businesses are taking advantage of the economic upturn and franchising their businesses. (references)
Political Economy	OMAN	Though the government in Oman selected international advisors for planned privatizations in the telecommunications sector in 1999, the project missed the wave of telecoms enthusiasm, and now appears to be on hold in hope of a general economic upturn. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Upturn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Upturn" is used about 239 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%	239	19,365

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Language		Translations for "upturn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përmirësim (amelioration, amendment, betterment, development, elevation, enhancement, improvement, melioration, pickup, progress, rally, reclamation, refinement, reform, reformation, rise, upswing), përmbys (bring about, capsize, dislocate, keel, overbear, overset, overthrow, overturn, prone, pull over, topsy turvy, uncrown, upset), kthim përpjetë, kthej mbrapsht (Evert, return, reverse, take back). (various references)

Arabic		‏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 over, turn up, upset, whimsical), ‏تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, way, work up to), ‏تحول الى الأفضل, ‏ارتفاع. (various references)

Bulgarian		вдигам нагоре, обръщам нагоре (turn up), благоприятен обрат, благоприятен прелом, преобръщане (inversion, reversal, roll over, upset). (various references)

Chinese		向上 (upturned, upward, upwards). (various references)

Czech		rozmach (development, expansion, sweep, swing, upswing), obrátit (convert, direct, inverse, reverse, tool, toss), konjunktura (boom). (various references)

Dutch		muurstijl (upstand). (various references)

Farsi		چرخش ببالا, تغییروضع , تبدیل به احسن , روبترقی (Upward(S)). (various references)

French		retourner (to turn up), renverser (up-end, upset), relevé (upstand), amélioration (upswing). (various references)

German		umdrehen (invert, reverse, roll over, skew, turn, turn around, turn back, turn inside out, turn over, turn round, turnabout, Upend). (various references)

Greek		στρέφω πρόσ τα άνω, στροφή πρόσ τα άνω, βελτίωση (amelioration, betterment, improvement, improvement in, meliorate, melioration, pickup, refinement, retrieval), ανατρέπω (buck, capsize, frustrate, invert, keel over, nullify, overbalance, overrule, overthrow, overturn, subvert, tip over, tip over 2, topple, tumble, upset). (various references)

Hebrew		מפ� �" לטוב�". (various references)

Hungarian		felhajtás (ado, ballyho, do, hoo-ha, hoopla, hype, roundup, round-up, turn up, turn-up), felfelé fordít (to turn up, to upturn). (various references)

Indonesian		menengadah. (various references)

Italian		sopraelevazione (banking, cant, cant of the track, superelevation, superelevation of the outer rail, superelevation of the track, superelevation rate, upstand), ripresa (rally, recovery, renewal, restart, restarting, resumption, revival, shot, take), rialzo (bull, elevation, increase, mark up, rise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		上向き (looking upward, upward tendency), 上向 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うわむき (looking upward, upward tendency), うえむき (looking upward, upward tendency), じょう�"う (article, clause, getting on and off, going upstream, intimacy, retired emperor, sexual intercourse, stipulations). (various references)

Pig Latin		urnuptay

Portuguese		volta para cima, virar para cima (turn up), revolver (circle, fossick, grub, roll, run, spade, tousle, trundle, turn over, wamble), mudança para melhor (reform), erguer (bore, crane, elevate, erect, lever, lift, raise, rear, up, upbear, uplift, upraise). (various references)

Russian		подъем (acclivity, ascent, climb, elevation, heave, heaving, hoist, instep, lift, lifting, raise, reveille, rise, rouse, take off, up, upgrade, uplift, uprise, upsurge, upswing, verve). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skok (bounce, bound, caper, curvet, hop, jump, leap, plunge, rally, rise, skip, spring), prevrnuti (capsize, overturn, roll over, tip over, upset), napredak (improvement, progress, prosperity). (various references)

Spanish		mejora (amelioration, betterment, improvement). (various references)

Swedish		uppgång (bulge, entrance, gain, increase, pickup, rise, rising, staircase, upsurge, upswing, way up), vända upp och ner på (Upend), ökning (advance, augmentation, bulge, enlargement, expansion, gain, growth, increase, increment, rise, rising, step up). (various references)

Turkish		yukarı çevirmek, yukarı çevirme, tersi dönme, ters çevirmek (invert, turn down, turn inside out, turn upside down), iyiye gitme, düzelme (amelioration, betterment, getting better, improvement, recovery, rectification, regeneration, upswing), altüst etmek (agitate, bedevil, clutter, clutter up, depolarise, disappoint, disorganize, disturb, knock galley-west, make havoc of, overset, overturn, play havoc with, play the deuce with, ransack, run upside down, screw up, turn about, turn around, turn under, Upend, upset, work havoc), 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 over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, whip, wind, wind up, zone). (various references)

Ukrainian		хаос (chaos, clutter, misrule), зростання (access, accession, accretion, concrescence, development, expansion, growing, increase, upgrowth, vegetation), бентежити (abash, affront, bewilder, confound, confuse, damp, dank, daunt, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dismay, disorder, embarrass, embrangle, flummox, muddle, overset, perplex, perturb, puddle, puzzle), піднімати угору, піднесення (ascension, climb, effervescence, effervescency, exaltation, lift, lifting, pathos, presentation, spring tide, sublimation, wave), перевертати (cant, invert, overcast, overset, overturn, reverse, tip, turn over). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tiến lên (advance, advancement, forwardness, progressiveness), sự tăng (increase). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "upturn": upturned, upturning, upturns. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Upturn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kulturna, uptorn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "upturn" (pronounced upter"n or u"pter'n)
3	-t er" n	return, sauterne, stern, turn.
3	-t er' n	downturn, overturn, taciturn.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: turnup.
	Words within the letters "n-p-r-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: punt, runt, turn.
	-3 letters: nut, pun, pur, put, run, rut, tun, tup, urn.
	-4 letters: nu, un, up, ut.
	Words containing the letters "n-p-r-t-u-u"
	+1 letter: turnups, upturns.
	+2 letters: puncture, pursuant, purulent, upturned.
	+3 letters: punctured, punctures, rupturing, uncorrupt, upcountry, upturning.
	+4 letters: outpouring, puberulent, punctuator, puncturing, pursuivant, usurpation.
	+5 letters: acupuncture, countercoup, outpourings, outtrumping, pulverulent, punctuators, pursuivants, sculpturing, supernature, suppurating, suppuration, unperturbed, unspiritual, unsupported, upthrusting, usurpations.
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