Definition of turn

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Turn (n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel..

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Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..
Reflexive :: Reflexive (a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
Bitter :: Bitter (n.) AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
Ditto :: Ditto (n.) The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two turned commas (), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition..
Obvert :: Obvert (v. t.) To turn toward.
Refluent :: Refluent (a.) Flowing back; returning; ebbing.
Turnverein :: Turnverein (n.) A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.
Revolve :: Revolve (v. t.) To cause to turn, as on an axis..
Year :: Year (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn..
Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) Litmus.
Heliotropic :: Heliotropic (a.) Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
Turnkey :: Turnkey (n.) An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist..
Declination :: Declination (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
Overturn :: Overturn (v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.
Pervert :: Pervert (v. t.) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words..
Return :: Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information..
Convert :: Convert (v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
Pervert :: Pervert (v. t.) To turnanother way; to divert.
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.
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