English主要词典
turn
Universal Words
verb, noun
verb
move round
1 to move or make sth move around a central point:
[V] The wheels of the car began to turn. * I can't get the screw to turn. * [VN] He turned the key in the lock. * She turned the wheel sharply to the left.
change position / direction
2 [usually +adv./prep.] to move your body or part of your body so as to face or start moving in a different direction:
[V] We turned and headed for home. * She turned to look at me. * He turned back to his work. * I turned away and looked out of the window. * [VN] He turned his back to the wall. * She turned her head away.
seealsoTURNOVER
3 [VN+adv./prep.] to move sth so that it is in a different position or facing a different direction:
[VN] She turned the chair on its side to repair it. * Turn the sweater inside out before you wash it.
seealsoTURNOVER
4 to change the direction you are moving or travelling in; to make sth change the direction it is moving in:
[V] He turned into a narrow street. * [VN] The man turned the corner and disappeared. * I turned the car into the car park.
5 [V] [usually +adv./prep.] (of a road or river) to curve in a particular direction:
The road turns to the left after the church. * The river turns north at this point.
aim / point
6 to aim or point sth in a particular direction:
[VN] Police turned water cannon on the rioters. * He turned the gun on himself. * Don't turn your anger on the children. * She looked at him then turned her attention back to me. * [V] His thoughts turned to his dead wife.
of tide
7 [V] to start to come in or go out:
The tide is turning-we'd better get back.
let sb / sth go
8 to make or let sb/sth go into a particular place or state:
[VN] They turned the horse into the field. * [VN-ADJ] to turn the dogs loose
fold
9 [VN] to fold sth in a particular way:
She turned down the blankets and climbed into bed. * He turned up the collar of his coat and hurried out into the rain.
cartwheel / somersault
10 [VN] [nopassive] to perform a movement by moving your body in a circle:
to turn cartwheels / somersaults
page
11 if you turn a page of a book or magazine, you move it so that you can read the next page:
[VN] He sat turning the pages idly. * [V] Turn to p.23.
game
12 [V, VN] ~ (sth) (around) if a game turns or sb turns it, it changes the way it is developing so that a different person or team starts to win
become
13 to change into a particular state or condition; to make sth do this:
[V-ADJ] The leaves were already turning brown. * The weather has turned cold and windy. * He turned nasty when we refused to give him the money. * He has decided to turn professional. * [VN-ADJ] The heat turned the milk sour. * [V-N] She turned a deathly shade of white when she heard the news. * He's a lawyer turned politician (= he used to be a lawyer but is now a politician). -< BECOME
age / time
14 [V-N] (not used in the progressive tenses) to reach or pass a particular age or time:
She turns 21 in June. * It's turned midnight.
stomach
15 [V, VN] when your stomach turns or sth turns your stomach, you feel as though you will VOMIT
wood
16 [VN] to shape sth on a LATHE:
to turn a chair leg * turned boxes and bowls
IDIOMS
Most idioms containing turn are at the entries for the nouns and adjectives in the idioms, for example not turn a hair is at hair.
as it / things turned out as was shown or proved by later events:
I didn't need my umbrella, as it turned out (= because it didn't rain).
be well, badly, etc. turned out to be well, badly, etc. dressed
turn round / around and do sth (informal) used to report what sb says or does, when this is surprising or annoying:
How could she turn round and say that, after all I've done for her.
PHRASALVERBS
turn against sb
