Verb

(en verb)

(lb) Non-linear physical movement.

# (lb) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.

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#*:"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.

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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)

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# (lb) To change one's direction of travel.

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# 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.

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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= 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.

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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.

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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)

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)

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I'll look no more; / Lest my brain turn .

## 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:

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.

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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

Verb

(en verb)

To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.

To join together by twining one part around another.

* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Chapter 15

"Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted , so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country."

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

* Alexander Pope

Twist it into a serpentine form.

To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.

* Waller

longing to twist bays with that ivy

* T. Burnet

There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.

(reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.

Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

To turn a knob etc.

To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.

* Exodus 23:8

And you will not take a bribe, because a bribe will blind the alert, and will twist the words of the righteous.

To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).

To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.

* 1913 , (George Bernard Shaw), Act V

Oh, you are a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs. Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you don't care a bit for her. And you don't care a bit for me.

* 1901 , (Henry Lawson), Joe Wilson's Courtship

Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped.

‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.

(of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.

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* 1926 , , He

My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.

To cause to rotate.

* 1911 , (John Masefield), Jim Davis Chapter 8

The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.

To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).

To coax.

* 1932 , Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai

"On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? [...]"

(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.