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return | turn | Derived terms |

Turn is a derived term of return.



In intransitive terms the difference between return and turn

is that return is to go back in thought, narration, or argument while turn is to sour or spoil; to go bad.

In transitive terms the difference between return and turn

is that return is to report, or bring back and make known while turn is to make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.

In cricket terms the difference between return and turn

is that return is a throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket while turn is a sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).

return

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To come or go back (to a place or person).
  • :
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
  • To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
  • :
  • (obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
  • *, Bk.V:
  • *:‘I suppose here is none woll be glad to returne – and as for me,’ seyde Sir Cador, ‘I had lever dye this day that onys to turne my bak.’
  • (obsolete) To turn (something) round.
  • *, Bk.X, Ch.xiij:
  • *:Whan Kyng Marke harde hym sey that worde, he returned his horse and abode by hym.
  • To put (place) something back where it had been.
  • :
  • To give something back to its original holder or owner.
  • :
  • To take something back to a retailer for a refund.
  • :
  • To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
  • *Bible, 1 Kings ii.44
  • *:The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.
  • (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
  • :
  • (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
  • :
  • (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
  • To say in reply; to respond.
  • :to return''' an answer;  to '''return thanks
  • *1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew)
  • *:‘Ah my good friend, I do look out!’ the young man returned while Maisie helped herself afresh to bread and butter.
  • (computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
  • (computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
  • :
  • (dated) To retort; to throw back.
  • :to return the lie
  • *Dryden
  • *:If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.
  • To report, or bring back and make known.
  • :to return the result of an election
  • *Bible, Exodus xix.8
  • *:And all the people answered together,and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.
  • (by extension, UK) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
  • Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the verb "return") * return to form

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of returning.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
  • A return ticket.
  • An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
  • An answer.
  • a return to one's question
  • An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
  • election returns'''; a '''return of the amount of goods produced or sold
  • Gain or loss from an investment.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The fruit from many days of recreation is very little; but from these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Liverpool 0-1 West Brom , passage=Liverpool have now won only five of their 17 home league games this season. It is a poor return for a team of Liverpool's pedigree and resources but, once again, Kenny Dalglish's team were the instigators of their own downfall as chance after chance went begging.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The rise of smart beta , passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return' of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of ' return .}}
  • (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
  • (computing) A carriage return character.
  • (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
  • (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
  • A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
  • (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
  • (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
  • The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
  • A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the noun "return") * abnormal return * absolute return * active return * amended return * annual return * carriage return * day return * dollar return * exante return * excess return * expected return * exponential return * false return * hard return * in return * information return * joint return * many happy returns * market return * mean return * non-return * point of no return * rate of return * real return * relative return * return address * return crease * return day * return extrasystole * return flow * return key * return of capital * return on assests * return on capital emlpoyed * return on equity * return on invested capital * return on investment * return on net assets * return on sales * return stroke * return ticket * return to form * Return To Zero * return address * risk-adjsuted return * risk-free return * risk-return tradeoff * safety-net return/safety net return * soft return * subperiod return * tax return * total return * venous return

    Statistics

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    turn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) Non-linear physical movement.
  • # (lb) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
  • #*
  • #*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
  • # (lb) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
  • #*
  • It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • #* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
  • # (lb) To change one's direction of travel.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
  • #* , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned , and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • # To change the course of.
  • # (lb) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
  • # (lb) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • The poet's pen turns them to shapes.
  • #* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • He was perfectly well turned for trade.
  • #* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • His limbs how turned , how broad his shoulders spread!
  • # (lb) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
  • # Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
  • # Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
  • #: 
  • To change condition or attitude.
  • # To become (begin to be).
  • #* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 21, author=Jonathan Jurejko, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , passage=The midfielder turned provider moments later, his exquisite reverse pass perfectly weighted for Cisse to race on to and slide past Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic.}}
  • # To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
  • # To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
  • #*
  • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • #* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • ## (lb) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
  • #
  • ## (lb) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
  • #
  • # To hinge; to depend.
  • #* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war.
  • # To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
  • # To change personal condition.
  • ## (lb) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa .
  • ## To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
  • ##* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #
    I'll look no more; / Lest my brain turn .
  • ## To sicken; to nauseate.
  • #
  • ## To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
  • ##: 
  • To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) VII:
  • And they made a calfe in those dayes, and offered sacrifice unto the ymage, and reioysed in the workes of theyr awne hondes. Then God turned himsilfe, and gave them up
  • * Bible, (w) xxxii. 12
  • Turn from thy fierce wrath.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • The understanding turns inward on itself, and reflects on its own operations.
  • *
  • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
  • To complete.
  • Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , passage=Liverpool introduced Carroll for Spearing and were rewarded after 64 minutes when he put them back in contention. Stewart Downing blocked Jose Bosingwa's attempted clearance, which fell into the path of Carroll. He turned John Terry superbly before firing high past Cech.}}
  • To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • (lb) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
  • (lb) To translate.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • who turns a Persian tale for half a crown

    Synonyms

    * (move around an axis through itself) rotate, spin, twirl * (change the direction or orientation of) rotate * (qualifier, change one's direction of travel): steer, swerve, tack * (nautical) * : * (become) become, get, go * (rebel) rebel, revolt * (shape on a lathe) lathe * (go bad) go bad, go off, sour, spoil * (complete) complete

    Derived terms

    * turn a phrase * turn about * turn against * turn around * turn away * turn back * turn in one's grave * turn down * turn heads * turn home * turn in * turn into * turn inward * turn loose * turn off * turn on * turn on one's heel * turn out * turn over * turn round * turn someone's crank * turn someone's head * turn tail * turn the other cheek * turn the tables * turn the tide * turn to * turn to stone * turn tricks * turn up * turn upside down

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A change of direction or orientation.
  • *
  • With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, wherelay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.
  • A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
  • A single loop of a coil.
  • A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • *
  • With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, wherelay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.
  • One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  • A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
  • (also turnaround ) The time required to complete a project.
  • A fit or a period of giddiness.
  • * 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
  • *:"Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman—something that gave a man a turn —I don't know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt in your marrow kind of cold and thin."
  • A change in temperament or circumstance.
  • (lb) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  • (lb) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  • The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  • A deed done to another.
  • (lb) A pass behind or through an object.
  • Character; personality; nature.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life), Ch.VII:
  • It was fortunate for his comfort, perhaps, that the man who had been chosen to accompany him was of a talkative turn , for the prisoners insisted upon hearing the story of the explosion a dozen times over, and Rufus Dawes himself had been roused to give the name of the vessel with his own lips.
  • (lb) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • Synonyms

    * (change of direction or orientation) * (movement about an axis returning to the original orientation) 360° turn, complete rotation, complete turn, full rotation, full turn * (single loop of a coil) loop * : go * (qualifier, one's chance to make a move in a game): go, move * (figure in music) * (time required to complete a project) * (fit or period of giddiness) dizziness, dizzy spell, giddiness * (change in temperament or circumstance) change, swing * (sideways movement of a cricket ball)

    Derived terms

    * Buggins' turn * bad turn * epistemological turn * good turn * give someone a turn * in turn * linguistic turn * round turn * take a turn for the worse * take it in turns * take turns * talk out of turn * turn-by-turn * turn of events * turn of the century * turn of the year * turn-based See also turning

    Derived terms

    * return * turnabout * turncoat * turning * turnout * turnover * turnpike * turnstile * turntable

    See also

    * * ornament * trill

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