Turn

Definition: Turn

Turn

Noun

1. A circular segment of a curve: "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path".

2. The act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; "he took a turn to the right".

3. The activity of doing something in an agreed succession; "it is my turn"; "it is still my play".

4. An unforeseen development; "events suddenly took an awkward turn".

5. A movement in a new direction; "the turning of the wind".

6. Turning away or in the opposite direction: "he made an abrupt turn away from her".

7. Turning or twisting around (in place); "with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room".

8. A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work".

9. (in sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive.

10. : a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did".

11. : a favor for someone; "he did me a good turn".

12. : taking a short walk out and back; "we took a turn in the park".

Verb

1. Change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs".

2. Undergo a change or development: "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor".

3. Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election".

4. Cause to move around or rotate; "turn a key".

5. Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become;"The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry"; "The teacher became impatient".

6. To send or let go; "They turned away the crowd at the gate of the governor's mansion".

7. Pass to the other side of; "turn the corner"; "move around the obstacle".

8. Move around an axis or a center; "The wheels are turning".

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

10. : change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern".

11. : to break and turn over earth esp. with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring".

12. : change color, as of leaves in the Fall; "In Vermont, the leaves turn early".

13. : cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics; "The princess turned the frog into a prince by kissing him"; "The alchemists tried to turn lead into gold".

14. : let (something) fall or spill a container; "turn the flour onto a plate".

15. : twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days".

16. : shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel; "turn the legs of the table"; "turn the clay on the wheel".

17. : go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out".

18. : accomplish by rotating; "turn a somersault"; "turn cartwheels".

19. : get by buying and selling; "the company turned a good profit after a year".

20. : cause to move along an axis or into a new direction; "turn your face to the wall"; "turn the car around"; "turn your dance partner around".

21. : channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something; "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "people turn to mysticism at the turn of a millenium".

22. : cause to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar".

23. : alter the functioning or setting of; "turn the dial to 10"; "turn the heat down".

24. : direct at someone; "She turned a smile on me"; "They turned their flashlights on the car".

25. : have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to; "She called on her Representative to help her"; "She turned to her relatives for help".

26. : become officially one year older; "She is turning 50 this year".

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

Date "turn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Turn \Turn\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Turned; Turning.]. (references)

Computing

Building & Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Mining

Sports & Leisure

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TURN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Turn

Crosswords: Turn

Albanian (change, circuit, gang, shift), Romanian (Castle, rook, spire, steeple, tower, turret), Welsh (lathe).

We can't begin this way. Let me turn on the light (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

What does it turn to (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

But I'm too involved now. You jump, I jump, remember? I can't turn away until I know you'll be alright (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

If needy were a turn on (Broadcast News; writing credit: James L. Brooks.)

Too proud to turn around (Don't Turn Around; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

If only I could turn back time, (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua)

Turn to stone when you comin' home, I can't go on. (Turn To Stone; performing artist: Electric Light Orchestra)

Give it up turn it loose (Give It Up, Turn It Loose; performing artist: En Vogue)

So Don't turn off the lights (Don't Turn Off The Lights; performing artist: Enrique Iglesias)

You are an engineer if you need a checklist to turn on the TV. (references; author: unknown)

It is OK to let your mind go blank, but please turn off the sound. (references; author: unknown)

On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom): "Do not turn upside down. (references; author: unknown)

You may not be able to turn back the clock, but you can always wind it up again. (references; author: unknown)

You can turn dollars into cents, and sense into dollars, though not dollars into sense. (references; author: unknown)

Acting in Turn (1974)

Dearreader: How to Turn a Book Into a Movie (1974)

The Turn of the Screw (1974)

Turn on to Love (1969)

To Turn a Trick (1967)

I'LL TURN TO STONE  (performing artist: Four Tops )

Turn Your Love Around (performing artist: George Benson)

Turn The Beat Around (performing artist: Gloria Estefan)

YOU CAN'T TURN ME OFF (performing artist: HIGH ENERGY)

Love Will Turn You Around (performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

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

Books

• The Everything Dog Training and Tricks Book: Turn the Most Mischievous Canine into a Well-Behaved Dog Who Knows a Few Tricks (Everything Series) (reference)

• Amazing Conversions: Why Some Turn to Faith & Others Abandon Religion (reference)

• The Insulin-Resistance Diet : How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat-Making Machine (reference)

• Sheep in Wolves' Clothing: When the Actions of a Christian Turn Criminal (reference)

• Psychology Applied to Modern Life: Adjustment at the Turn of the Century (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Scandal - Big Turn On (reference)

• U Turn (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Turn to Stone (reference)

• The Turn of a Friendly Card (reference)

• Turn Off Your Mind, Relax And Float Downstream (reference)

• Britten: The Turn Of The Screw / Britten, Pears, Vyvyan, Cross, et al (reference)

• Turn Left at Greenland (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Eldon Tilt -N Turn Monitor Stand (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Channellock 938 6" Quick Turn Snap Ring Pliers with .038 Straight Tip (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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The endospores of C. botulinum when stained using the Malachite Green staining method will appear as green spheres, while the bacilli themselves will turn purple in color. Credit: CDC.

Here the disease has manifested itself as a cutaneous ulceration, which has begun to turn black, hence the origin of the name "Anthrax", after the Greek name for coal. Credit: CDC.

Columbia 180 Turn and Burn. Credit: NASA.

Traverse party at Station Turn Area flooded after August 13, 1928 hurricane Party off of HYDROGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The strike. A turn of the century recreational fisherman begins the battle. In: "Sport Fishing in California and Florida," by Charles F. Holder. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I, p. 207, Plate I. Credit: Fisheries.

Volunteers haul away Brazilian Pepper brush. This part of the restoration is extremely labor intensive. The brush must be cut by hand, chipped and then burned. The pepper brush must be burned before the berries turn red or the seeds will be distributed and begin new growth. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Two varieties of the succulent salt marsh glasswort, Salicornia sp., that turn a beautiful red in the fall. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. An aerial view of the Fish River emptying into Weeks Bay which in turn opens to Mobile Bay. View looking south southwest. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

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.

Figure 30. Nansen releasing devices used for closing plankton nets. This device was invented by Fridthof Nansen about 1900 and apparently used aboard the MICHAEL SARS. A messenger activated this mechanism which in turn "strangled" the net by closing off its open end and capturing the fauna in the net. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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A few established laws served the turn, and the discretion and care of the ruler supplied the rest. (Second Treatise of Government)

The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany, because that country is on the eve of a bourgeois revolution that is bound to be carried out under more advanced conditions of European civilisation, and with a much more developed proletariat, than that of England was in the seventeenth, and of France in the eighteenth century, and because the bourgeois revolution in Germany will be but the prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution. (reference)

Our decision, therefore, cannot turn on merely a comparison of these tangible factors in the Negro and white schools involved in each of the cases. (reference)

We cannot turn back. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1952)

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Observe the turn of her throat

Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance

It was their turn to laugh now at the notion of his shaking Scrooge

No sensible man, it was confessed, could doubt on which side the victory would turn.

He hurried down, and reached the boulevard in time to see a fiacre turn the corner of the Rue du Petit Banquier and return into the city

Cranly did not answer or turn.

I doubt not but his friends will turn to us.

They knew that a man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves

I said, his Majesty should be satisfied, for I was ready to strip myself, and turn out my pockets before him.

I think that I may warrant you one worm to every three sods you turn up, if you look well in among the roots of the grass, as if you were weeding

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Health

Don't hesitate to turn to treatment staff for support. (references)

During conversations, turn off the radio or television. (references)

The neck may turn or pull involuntarily, especially when tired. (references)

Business

It will, in turn, attract more users in China. (references)

The smaller ricambistis in turn sell to the workshops. (references)

This threatens the commercial viability of foreign projects aiming to turn a profit. (references)

Children

Lebanon

Some associations representing persons with disabilities boycotted the elections, resulting in very low voter turn out; only 666 of 19,000 eligible voters participated in the elections. (references)

Bulgaria

Poverty has led to widespread school truancy because many children in Romani ghettos cannot afford shoes or basic school supplies and instead turn to begging, prostitution, and petty crime on the streets. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

Rallies and demonstrations sometimes turn violent. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

That offensive was, in turn, also halted. (references)

Armenia

The two panelists, in turn, select a third panelist. (references)

Lebanon

Parliament, in turn, elects a president every 6 years. (references)

Human Rights

Finland

The President appoints Supreme Court justices, who in turn appoint the lower court judges. (references)

Tunisia

Local phone, fax, and copy shops require users to turn over their identification cards when requesting to send faxes. (references)

Burma

The junta appoints justices to the Supreme Court which, in turn, appoints lower court judges with the approval of the junta. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

Every 3 years, indigenous people elect representatives to sit on 35 regional councils and the Torres Strait Regional Authority, who in turn choose 17 commissioners comprising the ATSIC Board. (references)

Minorities

Slovenia

Roma reported discrimination in employment, which in turn complicated their housing situation. (references)

Bhutan

Ethnic Nepalese have lived in the southern part of the country for centuries, and the early phases of economic development at the turn of the century brought a large influx of additional ethnic Nepalese. (references)

Political Economy

NICARAGUA

All of these factors have contributed to weak economic growth that, in turn, has inhibited poverty reduction. (references)

Ecuador

That, in turn, is needed to prevent a shift back to state intervention in the economy that could worsen the business climate. (references)

Argentina

At the turn of the 20th century Argentina boasted the seventh largest economy in the world, based primarily on meat and grain exports to Europe and North America. (references)

Political Rights

Lebanon

In turn, the Parliament elects the President every 6 years. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The King appoints all other ministers, who in turn appoint subordinate officials with cabinet concurrence. (references)

Bhutan

The name put to villagers for consensus approval by the headman is suggested to him by district officials, who in turn take their direction from the central Government. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

Many Azeri firms simply cannot afford such loans and turn to private sources for finance. (references)

Armenia

These banks in turn will lend to local businesses at an interest rate not to exceed 15% per annum. (references)

Honduras

Central Bank -- except for exporters operating in FTZs and EPZ as well as remittances -- which in turn auctions up to 60 percent of them daily in the open market. (references)

Travel

Belgium

To obtain a residence visa, it is necessary to have a working permit, which in turn is difficult to obtain. (references)

Italy

The value of the Euro changes with respect to the dollar, which in turn changes the value of the lira against the dollar. (references)

Honduras

After the formalities of courtesy have been taken care of, meetings generally turn to a more concrete discussion of business. (references)

Women

Slovenia

The shelters operate at capacity (approximately 40 beds combined) and turn away numerous women. (references)

Djibouti

The few women who are educated increasingly turn to the regular courts to defend their interests. (references)

Qatar

There also have been complaints that citizen husbands take their foreign spouses' passports and, without prior approval, turn them in for Qatari citizenship documents. (references)

Worker Rights

Iraq

The committees are affiliated with individual trade unions, which in turn belong to the IGFTU. (references)

Slovenia

Often the promised work does not provide enough money, so the women are encouraged to turn to prostitution. (references)

India

Sanlaap is usually the first organization Calcutta police turn to when they have rescued a trafficked sex worker. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "turn": a bad turn ♦ a friendly turn ♦ a good turn ♦ about turn ♦ Ampere turn ♦ as it may turn out ♦ at every turn ♦ at the turn of the century ♦ at the turn of the road ♦ bad pennies always turn up ♦ bake to a turn ♦ banked turn ♦ base turn ♦ be turn ♦ bring up with a round turn ♦ by turn ♦ climb turn ♦ do smb. a good turn ♦ do smb. a shabby turn ♦ down the watercourse turn ♦ down turn ♦ each in his turn ♦ everyone in his turn ♦ flat turn ♦ good turn ♦ have a turn for ♦ have a turn for smth. ♦ he did not turn a hair ♦ his feet turn outwards ♦ hold on turn into ridicule ♦ hold up turn into ridicule ♦ ill turn ♦ in turn ♦ it is my turn ♦ it's turn to come ♦ it's your turn ♦ joining turn ♦ kick turn ♦ lap turn ♦ make a sharp turn ♦ meet one at every turn ♦ not to turn a hair ♦ on the turn ♦ one good turn deserves another ♦ orderly turn ♦ out of turn ♦ parallel turn ♦ procedure turn ♦ quarter turn ♦ quarter turn belt ♦ rate of turn ♦ reverse turn ♦ right turn ♦ round turn ♦ sea turn ♦ serpent turn ♦ serve one's turn ♦ sharp turn ♦ significant turn ♦ skating turn ♦ snake turn ♦ snowplough turn ♦ snowplow turn ♦ speak out of turn ♦ star turn ♦ steep turn ♦ stem turn ♦ sudden turn ♦ take a bad turn ♦ take a good turn ♦ take a turn ♦ take a turn for the better ♦ take a turn for the worse ♦ take a turn in the garden ♦ take an ugly turn ♦ take disastrous turn ♦ take turn ♦ teardrop turn ♦ things have taken a good turn ♦ timed turn ♦ to a turn ♦ To bring up any one with a round turn ♦ To bring up with a round turn ♦ To turn ♦ To turn a cold shoulder to ♦ To turn a corner ♦ To turn a flange ♦ To turn a hostile army ♦ To turn a penny ♦ To turn about ♦ To turn adrift ♦ To turn again ♦ To turn against ♦ To turn an honest penny ♦ To turn around one's finger ♦ To turn aside ♦ To turn away ♦ To turn back ♦ To turn down ♦ To turn head ♦ to turn in. Additional references.

Beginning with "turn": turn-about, turn-allocation, turn-and-slip, turn-around, turn-a-round, turn-around area, turn-around time, turn-arounds, turn-back, Turn-buckle, turn-by-turn, Turn-christ, turn-coat, turn-coats, turn-cock, turn-down, turn-down collar, turn-final, turn-holding, turn-if, turn-in, turn-in point, turn-key, turn-length, turn-lengths, turn-my-back-on-you, turn-off, turn-off, turn-off guidance, turn-offs, turn-of-the, turn-of-the-century, turn-of-the-nineteenth-century, turn-on, turn-ons, turn-out, turn-outs, turn-over, turn-over, turn-penny, turn-round, turn-rounds, turn-screw, Turn-sick, turn-skin, turn-table, turn-tables, turn-taking, turn-up, turn-up bedstead, turn-up-and-try-it, turn-ups, turn-wrest.

Ending with "turn": about-turn, down-turn, left-turn, mid-turn, out-turn, quarter-turn, right-turn, up-turn, u-turn.

Containing "turn": control-turn-shot, Helix-Turn-Helix, Helix-Turn-Helix Motifs.

Afrikaans

draai (aberrate), wissel (change, interchange, swap, to cash), verander (alter, change), tou (file, line, rank, row), afwyk (aberrate, deflect, deviate, diverge, wander). (various references)

Albanian

trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, vex), trajtë (configuration, contraction, figuration, form, frame, line, make, shape, uniform), i jap formë (externalize, fashion), kthesë (bend, bow, circumvolution, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, jar, offset, oxbow, sinuosity, slew, switch, turn round, turnabout, twist, volte-face, wheel, wheeling, wind), kthej (bandy, bend, bow, bring back, convert, disgorge, fold in, give back, head off, lift down, replace, restore, return, slew, throw back, transform, transit, turn aside, turn down), kthehu, kthehem nga (turn away, wend one's way back from), krizë (access, attack, blizzard, conjuncture, crisis, famine, fit, paroxysm, seizure, slump), kthim (conversion, double, handover, metamorphosis, rebate, rebound, recall, recovery, repercussion, restitution, return, transformation, traverse, turnabout), kaloj (alternate, beguile, come by, come round, cross, cut, devolve, elapse, exceed, float, get by, glide, go, go by, go off, go past, negotiate, outbalance, overstep, pass, passage, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, spend, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, undergo, witness), ndërroj drejtim (change, deflect), drejtoj për në, atak (paroxysm), akt (act, action, certificate, diploma, document, doing, fact, proceedings), adresohem (apply), kapërcej (bypass, climb over, cross, exceed, fight off, get over, go one better than, hop, lap, leap, leave out, miss out, outdo, overbalance, overcome, overmaster, overpower, span, surmount, transcend, vault), çast kthese, marr kthesë (corner, curve), zmbraps (beat off, check, drive back, fight off, foil, hold off, repel, repulse), ndrydh (check, clench, constrain, dislocate, jam, sprain, stifle, subdue, suppress, vice, wrench, wrick), ndryshim (alteration, amendment, change, difference, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, distinction, inflection, inflexion, innovation, manipulation, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, permutation, recast, reversal, reverse, shift, shifting, switch, transit, transition, variation), përdredh (curl, intertwist, luxate, screw, sprain, twine, warp, wrick, wring), përdredhje (convolution, curl, kink, Rick, sprain, squirm, torsion, twist, wrench, wrick), prapësoj (discourage, move back, repel), radhë (batch, consecution, cue, file, inning, innings, place, play, queue, range, rank, row, run, series, tier), rrotullim (circumgyration, cycle, gyration, revolution, rotation, spin, torsion, traverse, turning, twirl, wheel, whirlabout), rrotullohem (bowl along, circle, mill, revolve, slew, turn about, turn over, wheel), vërtitem (circle, dance, flitter, flutter, gyrate, loiter, mill, mooch, move, move about, Potter, revolve, roll, turn round, wheel, whirl round), vërtitje (gyration, gyre, revolution, spin, torsion, twirl), veprim (act, action, activity, agency, deed, doing, engagement, fact, motion, move, movement, operation, play, procedure, proceeding, reaction, step, transaction), largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, put off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, wean, whiffle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تحول (chop, convert, evolution, inconstancy, juncture, metamorphosis, modification, modify, mutate, mutation, reduction, switch, transference, transform, transformation, transfusion, transition, transmutation, turn into, turnover), ‏دورة حراسة, ‏دوار (daze, dizziness, giddiness, revolutionary, revolving, rolling, rotary, rotating, rotational, rotative, rotatory, sturdy, swim, swimming, swinging, vertigo, voluble), ‏رجع (assign, back, come back, cut back, get back, give back, go back, pass back, rebound, reconsider, reestablish, reinstate, render, report back, resound, retreat, return, reverse, revert, send back, snap back, step back, turn back, turn in), ‏أزمة (crisis, recession, seizure, squeeze), ‏إستدار (become round, broach, slue, turn round), ‏إنعطاف (deflection, detour, return, sinuosity), ‏إنعطف (deflect, detour, turn around, turn the corner, wheel, wind), ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, pervert, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, swing, veer), ‏جولة (circuit, cruise, patrol, ramble, ride, round, run, swing, tour, trek), ‏خرط (etch, etching, lathe), ‏صفة مميزة (attribute, characteristic, difference, flavor, flavour, property, savor, savour, stamp), ‏صفقة (bargain, buy, cuff, deal, package, purchase, transaction), ‏طريقة في التعبير, ‏دور (age, circle, cycle, floor, function, part, place, refrain, role, round, say, storey), ‏قدم خدمة (do, render, serve), دولة (empire, state), ‏ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, use, will), ‏منعطف (bend, bight, curve, kink, serpentine, turning, twist), ‏نوبة مرض (access, brash), ‏نوبة (bout, fit, frenzy, gale, tumult), ‏تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, disposal, dispose of, ditch, do dispose of, doff, drown, elimination, escape, exorcise, exorcize, free, get out of, get rid of, jettison, liquidate, mop up, outgrow, polish up, put off, rid, scrap, sell up, shake, shake off, slough, turn off, weed, weed out, work off), ‏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 about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, turn up, upset, upturn, whimsical), ‏تغير (alter, alteration, change, convert, metamorphose, modify, mutate, mutation, range, set of exchange, shift, shift up, swing, variation, vary, vicissitude), ‏حول (ability, about, alien, around, be cross eyed, bleach, capricious, commit, concerning, deed, deliver, deter, divert, encode, hand down, hand over, make, metamorphose, power, process, redress, refer, relocate, round, stop, switch, transfer, transmute, transpose, whimsical, withdraw, work, year), ‏غير (beyond, budge, but, change, commute, fashion, masquerade, metamorphose, mis, modify, modulate, non, overrun, rehash, renew, reverse, revise, shape, shift, switch, switch over, than, transfer, transpose, un-), ‏حام حول, ‏حرك (actuate, agitate, drive, induce, jostle, mobilize, motivate, stir, toss, vex, whet), ‏تقلب (alteration, change, fickleness, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, flux, inconsistency, inconstancy, levity, oscillate, oscillation, swing, toss, tumble, variation, versatility, vicissitude, welter), لَفّة (coil), ‏لوى (bend, bent, contort, curl, flex, incline, screw, twist, wrench, wring, writhe, wry). (various references)

Aymara

jihuayaña (to turn off). (various references)

Basque

kanporatu (turn s.o. out to), jiratu (turn to). (various references)

Breton

troit. (various references)

Bulgarian 

променям (alter, change, change to, differentiate, graduate, leaven, modify, mutate, remodel, reshape, reverse, shade, shift, vary), номер от програма, насока (direction, guide line, line, movement, path, pattern, run, sense, set, stream, tide), навяхвам се, навивка (puttee, puttie, volution), намотка (circumvolution, coil, solenoid, tier, wind, winding), направление (bound, direction, drift, heading, range, run, set, tendency, track, way), маниер (demeanor, demeanour, fashion, manner, mode, sort, style, touch, way), затъпявам (dull, rust, stupefy), закръглям (make up, round, round off), заглаждам (hone, trim), завъртам (screw, switch, turn off, turn on, twist, wind), завой (bend, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, hook, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, turning, wind, winding), завивам (blanket, swing, tuck, turn down, turn off, wrap), достигам (abut upon, achieve, acquire, carry down, come, come by, come down, fetch, gain, greet, grow, hit, reach, scale, win), повъртявам, държа в обръщение, изменение (alteration, amendment, change, change over, innovation, mutation, permutation, variation), изменям се (alter, mutate), извивам (bend, convolve, curl, curve, elbow, incurve, pull round, recurve, screw, twine, twist, wreathe, wring, writhe), поддържам в обръщение, прокисвам, поврат (bend, change, mutation, quirk, turning point), промяна (alteration, change, chop, countermarch, innovation, mutation, permutation, reversal, sea change, shift, transition, transmutation, turnover, variance, variation), постигам (accomplish, achieve, acquire, come, compass, effect, effectuate, get, notch up, reach, realize, secure, turn in, work out), предавам красива форма на, превръщам (change, convert, gasify, metamorphose, organize, ossify, powder, pulverize, reduce, transform, transmute, vaporize, volatilize), прегъвам (bend, fold, reflect, turn back), претъпявам (jam, muffle), обръщам (bring about, cant, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, twist, upset), получавам (derive, gain, get, have, obtain, receive, touch), смяна (alternation, change, exchange, interchange, relay, rotation, shift, transfer, vicissitude), обиколка (ambit, circuit, girth, leg, round, round trip, roundabout, swing, tour, touring, walk about), разходка (airing, blow, drive, outing, perambulation, promenade, ramble, stroll, ta-ta, tour, walk), ред (arrangement, cast, course, discipline, inning, kilter, method, order, orderliness, placement, rank, row, run, sequence, series, set, shape, taxis, tier, train, variety), режа на струг, рекуширам, развалям се (addle, conk, fail, go bad, taint, turn off, turn sour), смекчавам (break down, chastise, correct, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, retouch, season, smooth out, soften, subdue, tame, temper, water down), характер (character, complexion, constitution, disposition, fiber, fibre, grit, grittiness, individuality, kidney, make, make up, mentality, metal, mettle, mould, nature, pattern, spirit, stuff, temper), свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, vein), удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, whack, whiplash, wipe), услуга (benignity, favour, kindness, office, service), стил (character, fashion, form, genre, manner, mode, order, pattern, pencil, penmanship, style, writing), ставам (arise, become, come, come round, eventuate, fit, get, get up, grow, intervene, occur, pass, proceed, pull up, rise, roll out, run, stand, take place, transpire, turn out, up), способност (ability, aptness, bump, capability, capacity, competence, competency, efficiency, faculty, fitness, flair, notion, power, quality, sufficiency), връщане назад (regress), строеж (conformation, construction, design, formation, grain, make up, making, mechanism, pattern, set up, structure, texture), обръщам се (about turn, appeal, apply, resort, turn back, turn over, veer, work round), обръщане (conversion, facing, inversion, reversal, turnabout, turning, veer). (various references)

Catalan

canviar (change, interchange, swap, to change). (various references)

Chinese 

轉彎 , 轉動 , 轮, 輪 (gear, rotate, wheel), 遭 (a time, incident, meet by chance), 遍 (a time, all over, everywhere, one time). (various references)

Croatian

skrenite, okrenite. (various references)

Czech

toèit se (curve, go round, revolve, rotate, swim, swirl, twirl, twist, veer, whiffle), toèit (shoot, spill, spin, swing, twiddle, twine, twirl, twist, whirl, wind), soustruhovat, obìh (circuit, circulation, cycle, flow, orbit, revolution, sphere), obracet, obrat (conversion, ply, return, reverse, rifle, spoil, strip, trim, turnover, veer), odvrátit (avert, divert, foil, head off, keep off, stave off, stem, ward off), ohyb (bend, bent, crook, curve, elbow, flex, offset), otáèet (swing, twist, whirl round), otoèení, ovinutí, přeložit (fold back, put over, render, replace, transfer, translate), pořadí (order, rank, rota, sequence, standing, succession), letora (disposition, temper, temperament), služba (duty, Favor, favour, ministration, office, service, utility), zmìnit se (change, vary), uchýlit se (fall back, resort), vìnovat se (address oneself to smth.), vypilovat, zabočit, zahnìte, zahnout (bend, clench, clinch, turn down, turn in), zatáèka (bend, corner, curve, roundabout, turning), zatočit, zformovat, pustit se do (embark on, go about, go in for, undertake). (various references)

Danish

vending (facing, reversal, turning, turn-over), vende (turn around, turn round), veksle (change), forandre (alter, change). (various references)

Dutch

veranderen (alter, change, transform), bocht (bend, curve, golf, gulf, refuse, rubbish, waste), anders maken (alter, change). (various references)

Esperanto

turno, turniĝo, turniĝi, turni sin (turn around, turn back, turn round), turni plipreme (fasten, tighten, turn on), turni (turn around, turn round), torni, renversi (overthrow, turn over, upset), ŝanĝi (change), acidiĝi (grow sour, sour), ƒiru, aliigi (alter, change), deturniĝi, devii, “iru, naturdoto (aptitude, disposition, talent), vico (file, line, rank, row), inversigi. (various references)

Estonian

pöörduge, pöörake. (various references)

Faeroese

venda (turn around, turn round), víkja frá (aberrate), snara (loop, mesh, snare, turn around, turn away, turn round), skifta (change, vary), raðfylgi (file, line, rank, row), rað (file, line, order, rank, row, series, set, tidy), kollvelta (overthrow, turn over, upset), broyta (change). (various references)

Finnish

sorvata, muuttaa (alter, change, convert, migrate, move move, remove, transform), kääntää (convert, fold, translate, turn around, turn round). (various references)

Flemish

sla. (various references)

French

tourner (turn around, turn on, turn out, turn over, turn round), tour (turning machine), changer, virage (turning), tournant (turning, turning point), renverser (tumble, turn about, turn over). (various references)

French Canadian

tournez. (various references)

Frisian

swaaie (turn around, turn round), rige (file, line, rank, row), feroarje (alter, amend, change), ferdraaie (turn around, turn round), draaie (turn around, turn round), ôfwike (aberrate, deflect, deviate, diverge, wander), ôfslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, decrease, discount, lower, rebate, reduce the price, reject). (various references)

Galician

xire. (various references)

German

drehen (be about, centre on, change, concern, contort, film, fix, grind, pull, pull off, revolve, roll, rotate, shift, slew, span, spin, spun, swivel, take, throw, to revolve, to turn, to twiddle, to twirl, to twist, turn around, turn round, twiddle, twirl, twist, wangle, wheel, wind, work), drechseln (overelaborate), Wendung (about face, change, expression, phrase, twist), wenden (come round, fork over, go about, heave, reversal, reverse, tack about, toss, turn about, turn around, turn over, turn round), Wende (change, face vault, turning point, u turn, wend), Tour (climb, drive, excursion, figure, file, hike, journey, line, outing, ploy, rank, Rev, revolution, ride, round, row, tour, trip, voyage, walk), Reihenfolge (file, line, order, rank, row, sequence), Reihe (array, bank, battery, chain, file, line, line-up, number, order, procession, progression, range, rank, row, run, series, set, string, suite, tier), kehren (bother, brush, sweep, turn around, turn round), Drehung (gyration, revolution, revolving, rotation, screw, spin, torsion, turning, twist, veer), biegen (bend, bow, curtsy, curve, flex, flexure, inflect, stoop, to bend, to curve, to flex, to inflect, wangle). (various references)

Greek 

στροφή (bend, curve, stanza, stave, turning, turnover, twiddle, twist, verticil, wind, winding, wrest), σειρά (filch, flight, inning, line, range, rank, row, row of, sequence, serial, series, set, string, succession, suit, train). (various references)

Haitian Creole

vire. (various references)

Hawaiian

aktivizoj (activate, put on, start, swotch on, turn on), aktivizohem (activate, put on, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references)

Hebrew 

לסוב (encircle, go round, surround), סבוב (bend, circle, circuit, spin, surrounding, tour), הסתובב (revolve), חזרה (repetition, retraction, return, review), פנה (corner, niche, nook, pinnacle, turret), פניה (addressing, appeal, application, entreaty, facing, turning), קפול (fold, folding, pleat, pleating, plication, rolling up), תפנית (flip-flop, swerve, swing, turnabout), סבה (cause, ground, reason), לסור (depart from, deviate, digress, drop in, go away, leave off, move, pass away, step aside, turn aside), מפנה (bearing, change, juncture, turning point), לסובב ל-, להסתובב (get about, perambulate, revolve, roll, rotate, slue, swivel, tour, turn around, turn over, turn round), להפוך (change, convert, go, invert, reverse), להתהפך (be inverted, roll oneself, tumble, turn over, upset), לחרוט (carve, chisel, engrave, etch), לפנות (appeal, apply, bear, close to, free oneself, heed, pay attention, toward, towards, wheel), מחזור (circuit, course, cycle), תור (course, epoch, era, line, queue). (various references)

Hungarian

keringés (circulation, circumgyration, flux, gyration, orbiting, revolution), fordulat (about face, change, corner, facing, idiom, juncture, kick in the pants, lap, locution, phrase, Rev, revolution, revolution per minute, rpm, swerve, turning, volt, wimple). (various references)

Icelandic

umbreyta (alter, change), röð (file, line, rank, row). (various references)

Indonesian

membalik (reverse, ricochet, turn around, turn over), melenceng (swerve, veer), giliran (play, serve, seve), belok (clayey soil, mud, muddy, pulley), belengkik. (various references)

Irish

iompaigh, cor, chasadh, casadh (to meet, to turn), cas (twist). (various references)

Italian

girare (circulate, endorse, go round, gyrate, indorse, make, reel, revolve, rotate, round, shoot, spin, stir, swing, swirl, to turn, to wander, twirl, twist, veer, wander, wheel, whirl, wind), svoltare (aberrate, corner, swerve), rovesciare (capsize, down, Evert, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pour, reverse, shower, slop, spill, spill out, tip, topple, tumble, turn inside out, turn over, upset), giro (circle, circuit, coil, drive, girth, gyre, I endorse, lap, ramble, revolution, ride, rotation, round, run, screw, slew, slue, spin, stroll, tour, trip, turning, walk), girata (endorsement, gyration, indorsation, indorsement, stroll, twist, walk), cambiare (alter, change, exchange, mutate, shift, to change). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

輪番 (rotation, sequence), 順番 (order of things), 順 (order), 曲がり目 (bend, curve), タール色素 (tar dye). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まがりめ (a corner, bend, bend in the road, curve, turning point), りんばん (rotation, sequence), ターン , じゅんばん (order of things), じゅん (10-day period, aim, apply correspondingly, associate, be proportionate to, chaste, conform to, correspond to, excellence, genius, innocent, level, order, pure, quasi, quasi-, rule, semi, semi-, standard). (various references)

Korean 

회전 (rotational, slew, Slewed, slews, Whirl). (various references)

Luganda

kyama. (various references)

Malagasy

mivilia. (various references)

Malay

mengubah (change), baris (file, line, rank, row). (various references)

Manx

shayll (bout of work, innings, piece of work, rotating, share, spell, stint, trick), garrey (bout of work, gallop, impetus, lap, rubber, spell, stint, trick), chyndaa (avert, avert eyes, convert, deflect, invert, quirk, return, revolve, translate, turn over, twirl), cassey (change, curl, distort, flick, flounce, involve, pervert, screw, spin, squirm, swing, swirl, tangle, turn over, twist, warp, whip-round, wrench, wring). (various references)

Maori

porotiti (to turn), huri-hia (to turn), hoki-a (to turn back). (various references)

Mohawk

-tkarhatenyes (to turn around). (various references)

Norwegian

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

Occitan

virar. (various references)

Papiamen

turno (file, line, rank, row), kareda (file, line, rank, row), fila (file, line, rank, row), drai (turn around, turn round), desviá (aberrate), cambia (alter, change). (various references)

Pig Latin

urntay.(various references)

Polish

zmieniać (change), obrócić (turn around, turn round). (various references)

Portuguese

volta (bent, circuit, detour, dog-collar, gyre, jaunt, meander, regress, return, revolution, round, roundabout, slue, spire, stroll, sweep, tour, turnabout, turning, twiddle, twirl, twist, wimple, winding), viragem (slew). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

volta (return), vire. (various references)

Quechua

kutiy. (various references)

Romanian

schimba (alter, change, chop, commute, convert into, exchange, fashion, improve, interchange, modify, renew, replace, shift, substitute, supersede, supplant, swap, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, vary). (various references)

Russian 

обтачивать, переделывать (adapt, alter, customize, makeover, readjust, recast, recondition, redo, re-do, re-done, rehash, remade, remake, remodel, revamp, rework, unmake), перемена (alteration, change, chop, mutation, permutation, relief, reverse, shift), повернуть, повертываться, поворачивать (bend, slue round, slues, turned, turning), поворачивать поворот;оборот, поворачиваться (sluing, swing around, turn round), поворот (crook, rotation, slew, swerve, tumbling, turn round, turning, turn-round, twist, veer, veering, wheeling, winding), превращать (change into, convert, reduce, render, transform, transforming, transmogrify, transmute, turn into), прогулка (airing, drive, excursion, jaunt, journey, outing, perambulation, promenade, ramble, ride, saunter, stroll, walk), направлять (bound for, direct, guide, helm, lead, pioneer, refer, route, steer, steers, train, vector, wend), нервное потрясение (jar), изменяться (alter, shift back, transform, vary), оборот речи (figure of speech, locution), стиль (descriptive style, diction, fashion, genre, make, strain, style, ton, tone), обточить, очередь (file, line, queue), виток (coil, loop, volute, volution, whorl, wind), вираж, вертеть (twiddle, whirl), возможность (capabilities, chance, enablement, eventuality, feasibility, occasion, opening, opportunities, opportunity, position, possibility, pot luck, potential, potentiality, resource, room), ворочать (roll, roll out), вращать (revolve, rotate, rotated, slew), вращаться (circle, gyrate, move, revolve, run, slew, turn around), точить (edge, grind, hone, sharpen, strops, whet, whetting), черед, услуга (serv, service), оборот (ply, return, revolution, turnover, volute, wheeling, wind). (various references)

Scottish

tionndaidhibh, sreath (a row, file, line, rank, row, series), sòbhaidh, sò'aidh, pill (a sheet, cause to turn), cuireid, cuirein, car (before an adj. : car coltach ri, fraud : an caraibh a, somewhat like, trick, twist). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potres (concussion, quake, shake, shock, temblor), obrnuti (convert, invert, revolve, switch), obrt (locution, overturn, turn over, turnover), okrenuti (dial, rotate, turn over), okretanje (circumvolution, dialing, gyration, reversion, rotation, rounding), okretati (dial), navršiti (pass, reach), osvrt (end-view, review), zaokret (turning point), prekretnica (milestone, turning point), red (array, consecution, cue, inning, innings, line, order, ordinance, phylum, progression, queue, row, series), skrenuti (avert, deflect, divert, shunt, sidetrack, switch), skretanje (deflection, drift, shunt, turning, veer), usluga (accommodation, favor, favour, ministration, service), vrteti (drill, gyrate, twiddle), osvrnuti se (look back). (various references)

Slovene

zavijte, obrnite. (various references)

Somali

leexo. (various references)

Sotho

chekela. (various references)

Spanish

vuelta (change, detour, facing, gyration, lap, leg, reprise, return, revolution, round, row, spin, turning, twist, walking), turno (bout, file, inning, innings, line, orderly turn, rank, row, spell), girar (back, derange, draw, endorse, go round, gyrate, hinge, Rev, revolve, rotate, slew, slue, spin, swish, swivel round, to turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, twiddle, twist, twist round, veer, wheel, wind, wind up), 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 about, turn around, turn away, turn over, turn round, turning), trastornar (derange, dislocate, disorder, overthrow, overturn, shake, turn about, turn around, turn over, unsettle, upset), desviarse (aberrate, backslide, break, deflect, detour, deviate, diverge, sheer off, turn aside, turn off, vary, wander), torcer (back, change, distort, inflect, slew, sprain, spring, throw, torture, turn about, turn around, twirl, twist, wind, wring out), talento (abilities, ability, accomplishment, aptitude, disposition, endowment, gift, head, parts, talent, wit), mudar (alter, back, break, break up, change, convert, Molt, moult, move, mutate, shed, Slough, slough off, throw, transfer, turn about, turn around, vary, veer), espira (coil, helix, spiral, spire, whorl), curva (bend, contour, crook, curve, hook, loop, upswing, wind), combiar (alter, change), cambiar (alter, back, barter, be exchanged, break, break up, change, chop, conjure, deflect, dislocate, distort, drop, exchange, interchange, shift, swap, swap around, swap over, swap round, swing, switch, swop, to exchange, transfer, turn about, turn around, turn round, vary, veer), apretar (bind, clasp, clench, clutch, constrain, constrict, cramp, fasten, grasp, grip, hug, oppress, pack down, pinch, press, press down, pull, purse, push, push down, quicken, ram, screw, snuggle, squeeze, subtend, tighten, tighten up, turn on). (various references)

Sranan

reylo (file, line, rank, row), kenki (about-face, alter, alteration, change, conversion, transformation), dray (turn around, turn round). (various references)

Swahili

geuka. (various references)

Swazi

kú-jika (to turn). (various references)

Swedish

vrida (contort, mangle, screw, turn around, turn round, tweak, twist, wheel, wind, wrench), varv (circuit, course, docks, lap, layer, Rev, revolution, round, row, shipbuilding yard, shipyard, wind), vända (bend, direct, put about, toss, turn around, turn over, turn round, veer), vändning (locution, turning, veer), tur (drive, excursion, figure, fluke, hap, luck, outing, ride, round, stroll, there, tour, trip, walk), svarva (lathe), sväng (bend, curve, slew, sweep, veer), förvandla (alter, change, commute, metamorphose, reduce, transform). (various references)

Tagalog

kumanan (turn right), kumaliwa (turn left), gamítin (employ, make use of, turn to account, use). (various references)

Tahitian

t“pu'u (to turn). (various references)

Thai

ทำอาหารอย่างดี (done to a turn). (various references)

Tswana

fapogele (take). (various references)

Turkish

ters dönmek (capsize, overturn, turn down, turn turtle, turn upside down), bulandırmak (blur, cloud, darken, dim, muddy, trouble, upset), 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 back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), dönme (apostasy, circumvolution, conversion, convert, cycle, deflection, deflexion, facing, gyration, loop, proselyte, renegade, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, tumble, turning, twist, veer, wheel, whirligig, winding), döndürmek (deflect, return, reverse, revolve, roll, rotate, round off, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, swerve, swing, turn aside, turn inside out, turn over, turn round, twiddle, twirl, veer, veer round, wheel, whip, whirl, wind, wind up), dönün, dönüm (period), dönüştürmek (coke, convert, process into, reduce, resolve, transform, translate, transmute, transubstantiate, turn into, turn to), dönüşmek (be transformed into, change, convert, expand, grow, pass, resolve, return to, shade, shade into, shade off, shade off into, transform, turn into, turn to), çark etmek (circle, pivot, swing, wheel), burkmak (distort, luxate, Rick, sprain, strain, twist, wrench, wrick), değişim (alteration, change, changing, meta-, metamorphosis, mutation, permutation, switch, variation), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn sour, upset), baxkalaxmak (alter, change), şekil (contour, face, figure, form, image, modality, morpho-, mould, semblance, shape, wise), atlatmak (beat smb. to it, bypass, circumvent, come through, dish, dodge, escape, get over, give smb. the slip, jump, let down, outride, outwit, overcome, Parry, pull through, put off, shake, skip, slip, stall off, take, throw off, tide over, ward off), amaç (aim, bourn, Bourne, cause, consummation, design, destination, dream, drift, function, goal, idea, ideal, intent, intention, meaning, mission, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, purview, scope, sense, target, terminus, use, view, wherefore, will), 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 into, turn on, turn over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone), dönüş (comeback, facing, gyration, regress, regression, return, return journey, Rev, rotation, spin, swing, turning, way back), korkutma (frightening, intimidation, terrorization, threat), vaz geçirmek, sarım, sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, diverge from, lapse, lead away from, oblique, sheer, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, slant, stray, swerve, swing, turn aside, turn off, turn up, wander, wander off), sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, lapse, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, warp), sıra (alignment, arrangement, array, bench, desk, file, form, linage, line, occasion, order, ordinal, place, progression, queue, range, rank, row, sequence, series, settle, slot, spell, succession, tier, train), perende atmak (do a somersault, somersault, tumble, turn a somersault), olmak (be, be situated, become, befall, come about, come off, come over, eventuate, exist, fare, get, go, go on, grow, hap, happen, hatch, have, hit, mature, occur, take place), düşünce tarzı (attitude of mind, cast of mind, ideology, mentality, school of thought, turn of mind, way of thinking), muamele (deal, dealing, doings, procedure, proceeding, transaction, treatment, usage), davranış (act, action, attitude, bearing, behavior, behavioral, behaviour, behavioural, conduct, deal, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, doings, form, manner, proceeding, stroke, treatment, way), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, wear off), fırsat (break, chance, facility, occasion, opening, opportunity, show), etkilemek (affect, cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, reach, smite, spell, spellbind, sway, thrill, touch, turn smb.'s head), ekşimek (acetify, be upset, ferment, Fox, go bad, go off, go sour, sour, turn sour), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, twist), değişme (alteration, changing, chopping, interchange, shift, switch, transition, transmutation, vicissitude), yöneltmek (aim, destine, direct, impel, level, Orient, orientate, start), nöbet (attack, bout, guard duty, ictus, invasion, paroxysm, police, post, sentry, sentry go, spell, tour, turn of duty, turn of work, watch). (various references)

Turkmen 

tow (rotation, spring), sowulmak (by-pass), nobat (queue), цwrьm, hozanaklamak (revolve), aяlamak (reflect). (various references)

Ukrainian

черга (queue, salvo, volley), відхилятися (bear off, deflect, deviate, diverge, incline, lapse, run off, skew, stray, swerve, trend, turn aside), виток (convolution, spiral, whirl, whorl, wind, wreath), обертатися (circle, circuit, encircle, encompass, pivot, revolve, rotate, slew, turn about, turn around, turn round, wheel, whirl), обертати (revolve, rotate, slew, swivel, wheel), оберт (circumvolution, rotation, turnover, wheeling, wind), зміна напряму, здібність (ability, aptitude, aptness, brightness, bump, capability, cleverness, faculty, felicity, talent, verve), прямувати (go, head, ride, sashay, steer, strike, wend, wend one's way), послуга (accommodation, favour, kindness, office), поворот (bend, slew, slue, turn off, turnabout, turning, veer, veering, wheeling, wind), повертатися (backtrack, bear, come again, drive back, fall back upon, retrace, return, revert), повертати (bend, bring back, carry back, disgorge, hand back, reimburse, repay, replace, restore, return). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiên hướng (disposition, leaning, penchant, propensity), tính khí lần, nói lung tung theo thứ tự lần lượt, cú (stroke), chỗ ngoặt, chỗ rẽ chiều hướng, chầu dự kiến, hành động (act, action, deed, doing), không theo trật tự lần lượt nói nhiều, làm ơn lại được trả ơn lộn xộn, lượt (bout, time), mục đích hành vi, ý định (aim, design, drift, intent, intention, scope, will), mọi lúc, vòng quay vòng cuộn, nói thừa, năng khiếu tâm tính, phiên thời gian hoạt động ngắn, sự diễn biến sự thay đổi khuynh hướng, sự quay (rotation, round, slue, turning), sự rẽ, vố khắp nơi, mọi chỗ. (various references)

Welsh

trosi (convert, translate), troi (convert, plough, revolve), trofa (bend, turning), tro (bend, time), treigl (course, revolution), ymchwelyd (overturn, return), corddi (agitate, churn), chwy+l (rotation). (various references)

Wolof

jàdd. (various references)

Xhosa

jika. (various references)

Yucatec

k'exik (alter, change). (various references)

Zulu

-vala (close, shut, shut off, stop, switch off, turn off), -sebenzisa (employ, make use of, turn to account, use). (various references)

bala. (various references)

tornos, tropos. (various references)

adversi, adversis, adverso, adversos, adversum, adversus, conversa, conversae, conversamini, conversantibus, conversantur, conversari, conversati, conversatur, conversatus, conversentur, conversi, conversique, conversum, conversus, conversusque, convertam, convertantur, convertar, convertat, convertatur, converte, convertebantur, convertebat, convertemini, convertemur, convertemus, convertendas, convertendo, convertendos, convertendum, convertens, convertent, convertentem, convertentes, convertenti, convertentibus, convertentur, converterat, convertere, converteremur, converterentur, converteret, converteretur, converterint, converteris, converterit, convertero, converteruntque, convertes, convertet, convertetur, converti, convertimini, convertimur, convertis, convertissem, convertisti, convertistis, convertit, convertitis, convertitque, converto, convertuntur, decurrant, decurrens, decurrent, decurrentes, decurrentis, decurrere, decurrit, decurrunt, deveni, devenient, devenientes, devenimus, devenire, devenirent, devenisset, devenit, devenitque, flectamus, flectat, flectebant, flectebat, flectebatur, flecteret, flecteris, flectet, flectetur, flectitur, flecto, flexis, flexo, flexuram, flexus, gyra, gyrans, gyrantes, gyrat, gyraverunt, gyravit, gyro, inclino, replicant, replicavit, revolvere, roto, tornare, torquens, torquent, torquentes, torquere, torqueri, torques, torserat, torta, tortam, tortamque, tortas, tortiones, tortis, torto, tortura, torturi, vergere, versa, versae, versaque, versi, versis, versos, versum, versumque, versus, vertam, vertatur, verte, vertebatur, vertens, vertente, vertentes, verterat, verterem, verterent, verterit, verterunt, verteruntque, vertetur, verti, vertissem, vertisset, vertisti, vertit, vertite, vertitis, vertitque, vertitur, verto, vertunt, vice, vicem, vices, vici, vicibus, vicis, vicum. (various references)

cerr, cierr, gehwierfan, hweorfan, hwierfan, oncierran. (various references)

torner. (various references)

wriven. (various references)

trenden. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "turn": turnable, turnabout, turnabouts, turnaround, turnarounds, turnbuckle, turnbuckles, turncoat, turncoats, turndown, turndowns, turned, turner, turneries, turners, turnery, turnhall, turnhalls, turning, turnings, turnip, turnips, turnkey, turnkeys, turnoff, turnoffs, turnon, turnons, turnout, turnouts, turnover, turnovers, turnpike, turnpikes, turns, turnsole, turnsoles, turnspit, turnspits, turnstile, turnstiles, turnstone, turnstones, turntable, turntables, turnup, turnups, turnverein, turnvereins. (additional references)

Words ending with "turn": downturn, inturn, nocturn, outturn, overturn, prereturn, return, taciturn, upturn. (additional references)

Words containing "turn": downturns, inturned, inturns, nocturnal, nocturnally, nocturne, nocturnes, nocturns, nonreturnable, nonreturnables, notturni, notturno, outturns, overturned, overturning, overturns, returnable, returnables, returned, returnee, returnees, returner, returners, returning, returns, saturnalia, saturnalian, saturnalianly, saturnalias, saturniid, saturniids, saturnine, saturnism, saturnisms, taciturnities, taciturnity, unreturnable, unturned, upturned, upturning, upturns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Turn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: durn, gurn, jurn, kurn, lurn, murn, nurn, qurn, rurn, tabrn, tarrn, tarvn, taryn, taurn, thurn, tirn, torin, Torna, torne, torq, torun, torx, touren, trn, tru, truan, truin, trun, trund, Truno, trunt, trunx, Trutnov, truv, truw, trux, truz, tuan, tuen, Tuin, Tuirc, tumn, tunrn, tuon, tura, turan, turb, turc, turd, ture, turen, turi, turl, turne, turnt, turo, turp, turq, turr, turrr, turs, turt, turu, Tzur, utn. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: runt.

-1 letter: nut, run, rut, tun, urn.

-2 letters: nu, un, ut.

+1 letter: brunt, burnt, grunt, runts, runty, rutin, trunk, tuner, turns.

+2 letters: antrum, brunet, brunts, bunter, burnet, burton, grunts, gurnet, hunter, inturn, jurant, nature, neuter, nutria, nutter, outran, outrun, punter, retune, return, rotund, runlet, runout, rutins, santur, strung, strunt, tenour, tenure, triune, truant, truing, trunks, tundra, tuners, turban, tureen, turned, turner, turnip, turnon, turnup, ungirt, unhurt, uniter, unrent, unrest, unroot, untorn, untrim, untrod, untrue, uptorn, upturn, urgent.