Turn vs Angle - What's the difference?
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(lb) Non-linear physical movement.
# (lb) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
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# (lb) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
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, title= # (lb) To change one's direction of travel.
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, 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.}}
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, title= # 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)
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# (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.
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To change condition or attitude.
# To become (begin to be).
#* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 21, author=Jonathan Jurejko, work=BBC Sport
, title= # To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
# To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
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, title= ## (lb) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
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## (lb) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
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# To hinge; to depend.
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
# 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.
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## To sicken; to nauseate.
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## To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
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To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) VII:
* Bible, (w) xxxii. 12
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
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To complete.
Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's .
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, title= 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)
A change of direction or orientation.
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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.
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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:
(lb) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
(senseid)(geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
(senseid)(geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
A corner where two walls intersect.
A change in direction.
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, title= (senseid) A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
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, title= * 2005 , Adams Media, Adams Job Interview Almanac (page 299)
(media) The focus of a news story.
(slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
(slang) A scheme; a means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, possibly illegal.
A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
* Dryden
(astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
(often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
(informal) To change direction rapidly.
(informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
(snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
(informal) (with for ) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between turn and angle
is that turn is a change of direction or orientation while angle is .As a verb turn
is (lb) non-linear physical movement .turn
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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.
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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.}}
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.}}
- The poet's pen turns them to shapes.
- He was perfectly well turned for trade.
- His limbs how turned , how broad his shoulders spread!
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.}}
- 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.
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.}}
- Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war.
- I'll look no more; / Lest my brain turn .
- 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
- Turn from thy fierce wrath.
- 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.
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.}}
- 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) completeDerived 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 downNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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 turningDerived terms
* return * turnabout * turncoat * turning * turnout * turnover * turnpike * turnstile * turntableSee also
* * ornament * trillStatistics
*angle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) angle, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles , increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
Ecological Dependency, passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle : the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”}}
- For example, if I was trying to repitch an idea to a producer who had already turned it down, I would say something like, "I remember you said you didn't like my idea because there was no women's angle . Well, here's a great one that both of us must have missed during our first conversation."
- though but an angle reached him of the stone
Synonyms
* (corner) corner * (change in direction) swerve * (vertex) -gon (as per hexagon) * (viewpoint) opinion, perspective, point of view, slant, view, viewpointDerived terms
* acute angle * acute-angled * angle quote * angle bracket * central angle * complementary angle * dihedral angle * exterior angle * interior angle * oblique angle * obtuse-angled * opposite angle * pentangle * plane angle * play the angles * quadrangle * rectangle * right angle * round angle * solid angle * straight angle * supplementary angle * triangle * vertical angleSee also
* arcminute * arcsecond * degree * gradian * radianVerb
(angl)- The roof is angled at 15 degrees.
- The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.
- How do you want to angle this when we talk to the client?
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(angl)- He must be angling for a pay rise.
Derived terms
* *Noun
(en noun)- Give me mine angle : we'll to the river there.
- A fisher next his trembling angle bears.