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What (who) is Turn - definition
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TURN; Networking:TURN; Traversal Using Relay Nat(Turn); Traversal Using Relay NAT
Turn
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Turned; Turn (single); The Turn; Turns; Turn (disambiguation); Turn (album); Turn (sport); The Turn (disambiguation); Turn (song); The Turn (album)
·noun Monthly courses; menses.
II. Turn ·noun A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
III. Turn ·vi To be nauseated;
- said of the stomach.
IV. Turn ·vi To become giddy;
- said of the head or brain.
V. Turn ·vi To become inclined in the other direction;
- said of scales.
VI. Turn ·vi To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
VII. Turn ·vi To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb;
- said of the tide.
VIII. Turn ·vi To become acid; to Sour;
- said of milk, ale, ·etc.
IX. Turn ·noun A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
X. Turn ·noun Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
XI. Turn ·vi To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
XII. Turn ·noun A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
XIII. Turn ·noun A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.
XV. Turn ·vi To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
XVII. Turn ·noun Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
XIX. Turn ·add. ·vt To make a turn about or around (something); to go or pass around by turning; as, to turn a corner.
XX. Turn ·noun The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
XXI. Turn ·noun A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
XXII. Turn ·vt To make acid or sour; to Ferment; to curdle, ·etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.
XXIII. Turn ·noun Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.
XXIV. Turn ·noun One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
XXVI. Turn ·vi Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to Hinge; to Depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
XXVII. Turn ·vi To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.
XXVIII. Turn ·noun Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
XXIX. Turn ·vt To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
XXX. Turn ·noun Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion;
- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
XXXI. Turn ·noun A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging;
- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
XXXII. Turn ·vt To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to Transfer; to use or employ; to Apply; to Devote.
XXXIII. Turn ·vt To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.
XXXIV. Turn ·vi To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to Grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
XXXV. Turn ·vi To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
XXXVI. Turn ·vt To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to Deflect; to incline differently;
- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.
XXXVII. Turn ·vt To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
XXXVIII. Turn ·vt To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to Alter; to Metamorphose; to Convert; to Transform;
- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.
XXXIX. Turn ·noun An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.
turn
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Turned; Turn (single); The Turn; Turns; Turn (disambiguation); Turn (album); Turn (sport); The Turn (disambiguation); Turn (song); The Turn (album)
(turns, turning, turned)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: 'Turn' is used in a large number of other expressions which are explained under other words in the dictionary. For example, the expression 'turn over a new leaf' is explained at 'leaf'.
1.
When you turn or when you turn part of your body, you move your body or part of your body so that it is facing in a different or opposite direction.
He turned abruptly and walked away...
He sighed, turning away and surveying the sea...
He turned his head left and right...
VERB: V, V prep/adv, V n adv/prep
•
I felt a tapping on my shoulder and I turned around...
Turn your upper body round so that your shoulders are facing to the side.
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V n P
2.
When you turn something, you move it so that it is facing in a different or opposite direction, or is in a very different position.
They turned their telescopes towards other nearby galaxies...
She had turned the bedside chair to face the door...
The lid, turned upside down, served as a coffee table.
VERB: V n prep/adv, V n to-inf, V-ed
3.
When something such as a wheel turns, or when you turn it, it continually moves around in a particular direction.
As the wheel turned, the potter shaped the clay...
The engine turned a propeller.
VERB: V, V n
4.
When you turn something such as a key, knob, or switch, or when it turns, you hold it and twist your hand, in order to open something or make it start working.
Turn a special key, press the brake pedal, and your car's brakes lock...
Turn the heat to very low and cook for 20 minutes...
I tried the doorknob and it turned.
VERB: V n, V n prep/adv, V
5.
When you turn in a particular direction or turn a corner, you change the direction in which you are moving or travelling.
Now turn right to follow West Ferry Road...
The man with the umbrella turned the corner again.
VERB: V prep/adv, V n
•
Turn is also a noun.
You can't do a right-hand turn here.
N-COUNT
6.
The point where a road, path, or river turns, is the point where it has a bend or curve in it.
...the corner where Tenterfield Road turned into the main road.
VERB: V prep/adv, also V
•
Turn is also a noun.
...a sharp turn in the road.
N-COUNT
7.
When the tide turns, it starts coming in or going out.
There was not much time before the tide turned.
VERB: V
8.
When you turn a page of a book or magazine, you move it so that is flat against the previous page, and you can read the next page.
He turned the pages of a file in front of him.
VERB: V n
9.
If you turn a weapon or an aggressive feeling on someone, you point it at them or direct it at them.
He tried to turn the gun on me...
The crowd than turned their anger on Prime Minister James Mitchell.
VERB: V n on n, V n on n
10.
If you turn to a particular page in a book or magazine, you open it at that page.
To order, turn to page 236.
VERB: V to n
11.
If you turn your attention or thoughts to a particular subject or if you turn to it, you start thinking about it or discussing it.
We turned our attention to the practical matters relating to forming a company...
We turn now to the British news.
VERB: V n to n, V to n
12.
If you turn to someone, you ask for their help or advice.
For assistance, they turned to one of the city's most innovative museums...
VERB: V to n
13.
If you turn to a particular activity, job, or way of doing something, you start doing or using it.
These communities are now turning to recycling in large numbers...
VERB: V to/from n/-ing
14.
To turn or be turned into something means to become that thing.
A prince turns into a frog in this cartoon fairytale...
The hated dictator had turned his country into one of the poorest police states in Europe...
VERB: V into/to n, V n into/to n
15.
You can use turn before an adjective to indicate that something or someone changes by acquiring the quality described by the adjective.
If the bailiff thinks that things could turn nasty he will enlist the help of the police...
= become
V-LINK: V adj
16.
If something turns a particular colour or if something turns it a particular colour, it becomes that colour.
The sea would turn pale pink and the sky blood red...
Her contact lenses turned her eyes green.
V-LINK: V colour, V n colour
17.
You can use turn to indicate that there is a change to a particular kind of weather. For example, if it turns cold, the weather starts being cold.
If it turns cold, cover plants...
V-LINK: V adj
18.
If a situation or trend takes a particular kind of turn, it changes so that it starts developing in a different or opposite way.
The scandal took a new turn over the weekend.
N-COUNT: with supp, oft N in n
19.
If a business turns a profit, it earns more money than it spends. (AM BUSINESS; in BRIT, use make
, return
)
, return
)
The firm will be able to service debt and still turn a modest profit...
VERB: no passive, V n
20.
When someone turns a particular age, they pass that age. When it turns a particular time, it passes that time.
It was his ambition to accumulate a million dollars before he turned thirty...
VERB: V n
21.
Turn is used in expressions such as the turn of the century and the turn of the year to refer to a period of time when one century or year is ending and the next one is beginning.
They fled to South America around the turn of the century.
N-SING: the N of n
22.
When someone turns a wooden or metal object that they are making, they shape it using a special tool.
...the joys of making a living from turning wood.
VERB: V n
23.
If it is your turn to do something, you now have the duty, chance, or right to do it, when other people have done it before you or will do it after you.
Tonight it's my turn to cook...
Let each child have a turn at fishing...
N-COUNT: usu with poss, oft N to-inf, N at -ing, N -ing
24.
If you say that someone is having a turn, you mean they feel suddenly very unwell for a short period of time. (BRIT INFORMAL)
N-COUNT
25.
see also turning
26.
You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
His tone was by turns angry and aggrieved.
PHRASE: PHR with group, PHR with v
27.
If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
They were horrified at this unexpected turn of events.
PHRASE
28.
If you say that something happens at every turn, you are emphasizing that it happens frequently or all the time, usually so that it prevents you from achieving what you want.
Its operations were hampered at every turn by inadequate numbers of trained staff...
PHRASE: PHR after v, PHR with cl [emphasis]
29.
If you do someone a good turn, you do something that helps or benefits them.
He did you a good turn by resigning...
PHRASE: usu PHR after v
30.
If someone turns a place inside out or upside down, they search it very thoroughly and usually make it very untidy.
They hadn't found a scrap of evidence though they had turned his flat inside out.
PHRASE: V inflects
31.
If something such as a system or way of life is turned inside out or upside down, it is changed completely, making people confused or upset.
He felt too shocked to move. His world had been turned upside down.
PHRASE: V inflects
32.
You use in turn to refer to actions or events that are in a sequence one after the other, for example because one causes the other.
One of the members of the surgical team leaked the story to a fellow physician who, in turn, confided in a reporter.
PHRASE: PHR with cl/group
33.
If each person in a group does something in turn, they do it one after the other in a fixed or agreed order.
There were cheers for each of the women as they spoke in turn.
PHRASE: PHR after v
34.
If you speak out of turn or talk out of turn, you say something that you do not have the right or authority to say.
I hope I haven't spoken out of turn.
PHRASE: V inflects
35.
If two or more people take turns to do something, or in British English take it in turns to do something, they do it one after the other several times, rather than doing it together.
We took turns to drive the car...
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR to-inf
36.
If a situation takes a turn for the worse, it suddenly becomes worse. If a situation takes a turn for the better, it suddenly becomes better.
Her condition took a sharp turn for the worse.
PHRASE: V inflects
turn
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Turned; Turn (single); The Turn; Turns; Turn (disambiguation); Turn (album); Turn (sport); The Turn (disambiguation); Turn (song); The Turn (album)
I. v. a.
1.
Revolve, move round, turn round, make go round.
2.
Cause to deviate, cast, deflect, inflect, bend, incline differently, change the direction of.
3.
Divert, transfer, use, employ.
4.
Reverse the position of, turn over.
5.
Shape (as in a lathe), form, mould, fashion.
6.
Adapt, fit, suit.
7.
Change, alter, transmute, metamorphose, transform, convert.
8.
Change opinion, alter belief.
9.
Translate, construe, render.
10.
Direct, apply.
11.
Direct the look to, change position.
12.
Transfer.
13.
Revolve, agitate.
14.
Reverse, repeal.
15.
Acidify, make sour, make acid.
II. v. n.
1.
Revolve, whirl, turn round, have a circular motion, wheel round.
2.
Be directed, have direction.
3.
Deviate, incline, bend, be deflected.
4.
Be changed, be transformed, be converted, be altered, become transmuted.
5.
Grow, become.
6.
Become sour, become acid.
7.
Depend, hinge, pivot, hang, be dependent.
8.
Result, terminate, come about, eventuate, issue.
9.
Become giddy, grow dizzy.
III. n.
1.
Revolution, movement about a centre, act of turning, rotation, gyration, round.
2.
Change of direction, alteration, of course, new tendency, deviation, deflection, flexion, flexure, bend, bending, sweep, winding, twist, turning.
3.
Change, alteration, vicissitude, variation.
4.
Winding, bend, brief walk, short excursion.
5.
Successive course, due chance, appropriate time.
6.
Opportune deed, occasional kindness, act, action, deed, office.
7.
Convenience, occasion, purpose, exigence.
8.
Form, cast, shape, manner, fashion, phase, guise.
9.
Form of expression, mode of signifying.
10.
Aptitude, talent, bias, proclivity, gift, genius, propensity, proneness.
Wikipedia
Traversal Using Relays around NAT
Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) is a protocol that assists in traversal of network address translators (NAT) or firewalls for multimedia applications. It may be used with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). It is most useful for clients on networks masqueraded by symmetric NAT devices. TURN does not aid in running servers on well known ports in the private network through a NAT; it supports the connection of a user behind a NAT to only a single peer, as in telephony, for example.
TURN is specified by RFC 8656. The TURN URI scheme is documented in RFC 7065.
Examples of use of Turn
1. Streets turn into lakes, alleys turn into rivers.
2. I can‘t turn back, because we‘ll be sitting ducks as we turn.
3. When the bus would turn left, the car would turn left," he said.
4. People turn to cleric for justice Aside from work, many also turn to Fazlullah for justice.
5. Computers almost never turn out to have done a good turn to anybody.