turn

  • (verb): (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
  • (verb): (heading) To change condition or attitude.
  • (verb): To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • (verb): (usually with over) To complete.
  • (verb): To make (money); turn a profit.
  • (verb): Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • (verb): To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • (verb): To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • (verb): To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
  • (verb): To translate.
  • (verb): To magically or divinely attack undead.
  • They say they can turn the parts in two days.
  • We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.
  • Ivory turns well.
  • to turn the Iliad