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turning
[ tur-ning ]
turning
/ ˈtɜːnɪŋ /
noun
- Also calledturn a road, river, or path that turns off the main way
the fourth turning on the right
- the point where such a way turns off
- a bend in a straight course
- an object made on a lathe
- another name for turnery
- plural the waste produced in turning on a lathe
Other Words From
- un·turning adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
When you typed a message, the turning wheels and the web of wiring inside them scrambled it.
This rather unfounded optimism for the future is an important part of tradition when it comes to the turning of the calendar year.
It seems like a machine, so I’m just ready to be one of the turning parts of it.
The Battle of Gettysburg that July is now seen as the war’s turning point, but Lincoln had yet to even issue the Emancipation Proclamation when he fell ill.
In fact, variolation saw a crucial turning point in American nearly half a century earlier—and was already widely used in India, Africa, and Turkey by that time.
But the tide was turning on this issue, an email from another constituent made clear.
Emetophobia tends to compromise my relationships, turning me into a selfish jerk.
These days, plenty of women are turning to online sites for no-frills male companionship.
The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.
The Butterbrief, issued by Pope Innocent VIII, was a turning point for the then bland Stollen, which gradually became sweeter.
When he had finished, she took them from his hand, and turning them round in agitated silence, examined their seals and writing.
There was a great comparing of papers, and turning over of leaves, by Fogg and Perker, after this statement of profit and loss.
Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.
Further enlightenment (as with men) comes through grace as soon as they become beati through turning to good.
He sang the words with an odd, emphatic slowness, turning to look at Lettice between the phrases.
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