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turn out

verb

  1. tr to cause (something, esp a light) to cease operating by or as if by turning a knob, etc
  2. tr to produce by an effort or process

    she turned out 50 units per hour

  3. tr to dismiss, discharge, or expel

    the family had been turned out of their home

  4. tr to empty the contents of, esp in order to clean, tidy, or rearrange

    to turn out one's pockets

  5. copula
    1. to prove to be

      her work turned out to be badly done

    2. to end up; result

      it all turned out well

  6. tr to fit as with clothes

    that woman turns her children out well

  7. intr to assemble or gather

    a crowd turned out for the fair

  8. (of a soldier) to parade or to call (a soldier) to parade
  9. informal.
    intr to get out of bed
  10. informal.
    intrfoll byfor to make an appearance, esp in a sporting competition

    he was asked to turn out for Liverpool

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. the body of people appearing together at a gathering
  2. the quantity or amount produced
  3. an array of clothing or equipment
  4. the manner in which a person or thing is arrayed or equipped
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

So by failing, I go audition for Any Given Sunday [and] things turn out right.

So the new inhaled powder measles vaccine may in a few years turn out to be an easier way to protect kids from measles.

Many of your spokespeople are loud and mean, because they can turn out the votes.

Otherwise, we will get the democracy we pay for, which may turn out to be not much democracy at all.

Volunteer shifts made record numbers of calls and door knocks across the country to turn out Democratic voters.

Perhaps the marriage celebrated in King's Warren church may turn out well after all.

The chief puzzle of the problem is that nothing turns out as we were told it would turn out.

To supply the demand for galvanised signalling and fencing cords, the machines must turn out 15,000 yards of strand per day.

A senior dancer enviously observed, that he never knew a clever boy turn out a great man.

And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.

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