turn

English

/tɜːn/, /tɝn/

verb
Definitions
  • (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
  • (heading) To change condition or attitude.
  • (obsolete) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • (transitive) To complete.
  • (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
  • (transitive) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • (printing) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
  • (archaic) To translate.
  • (transitive) To magically or divinely attack undead.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English turnen inherited from Old English turnian derived from Old French torner (turn) derived from Latin tornāre (turn in a lathe, round off, turn) derived from Ancient Greek τόρνος (turning lathe, carpenter's tool for drawing a circle, turning-lathe a tool used for making circles, a tool used for making circles) derived from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (rub, turn, twist, bore, drill, rub by twisting, pierce, rub by turning, twisting, turnVerb, rub by twistVerb).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*terh₁-

Gloss

rub, turn, twist, bore, drill, rub by twisting, pierce, rub by turning, twisting, turnVerb, rub by twistVerb

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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