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Definition: Turndown |
TurndownNoun1. The act of refusing an offer; "the turndown was polite but very firm". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: TurndownSynonym: nonacceptance (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Turndown |
| English words defined with "turndown": nonacceptance. (references) |
| "Turndown" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Turndown" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "turndown": turndown collar. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
service turndown | 5 |
turndown | 4 |
ratio turndown | 4 |
bank turndown | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "turndown"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prapësim, i palosur, i kthyer (inverted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umkehren (change one's ways, invert, overturn, retrace one's steps, reversal, reverse, to turn back, turn around, turn back, turn inside out, turn upside down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | お断わり (declination, declining, nonacceptance, refusal, rejection), 断り (declination, declining, nonacceptance, refusal, rejection), 断わり (declination, declining, nonacceptance, refusal, rejection), 御断わり (declination, declining, nonacceptance, refusal, rejection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | お"とわり (declination, declining, nonacceptance, refusal, rejection), "とわり (declination, declining, nonacceptance, refusal, rejection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urndowntay отказ (abandonment, abdication, abnegation, ademption, brush-off, denial, disallowance, disclamation, failure, malfunction, nay, negative, putdown, refusal, rejection, renouncement, renunciation, repulse, waiver), отложной. (various references) odbačenost, odbačen (cast off, castoff, derelict, dump, forlorn, off-cast, reject, thrown). (various references) nedvikbar, dubbelvikt (doubled). (various references) devrik yaka (turndown collar), devrik kısım, devrik (inverse, rolling, turned back on itself, turned down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turndown": turndowns. (additional references) | |
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"Turndown" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Quarndon, tournon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "turndown" (pronounced ter"ndou'n) |
| 4 | -n d ou' n | rundown, sundown. |
| 3 | -d ou' n | breakdown, clampdown, closedown, comedown, countdown, crackdown, drawdown, godown, hoedown, knockdown, letdown, lockdown, lowdown, markdown, meltdown, putdown, shakedown, showdown, shutdown, slowdown, touchdown. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: downturn. | |
| Words within the letters "d-n-n-o-r-t-u-w" | |
-1 letter: rundown. | |
-2 letters: rotund, turnon, untorn, untrod, unworn. | |
-3 letters: donut, drown, round, unwon, wound. | |
-4 letters: dour, down, dunt, durn, duro, noun, nowt, nurd, rout, runt, torn, tour, town, trod, trow, turd, turn, undo, unto, wont, word, worn, wort. | |
-5 letters: don, dor, dot, dow, dun, duo, nod, nor, not, now, nun, nut, ort, oud, our, out, own. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-n-n-o-r-t-u-w" | |
+1 letter: downturns, turndowns. | |
+4 letters: untowardness. | |
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