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turning

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; "he took a turn to the right" [syn: turn ] act of changing in practice or custom; "the law took many turnings over the years" a movement in a new direction; "the turning of the wind" [syn: ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a turning point (= the time when an important change starts, especially an improvement ) ▪ A turning point in the history of the republic came in 1358. mark a high/low/turning etc point (= be or happen at a particular ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Turning is a machining process in which a cutting tool , typically a non-rotary tool bit , describes a helical toolpath by moving more or less linearly while the workpiece rotates . The tool's axes of movement may be literally a straight line, or they may ...

Usage examples of turning.

Then, turning towards me, he says that I look like a foreigner, and when I say that I am an Italian he begins to speak to me of the court, of the city, of the theatres, and at last he offers to accompany me everywhere.

Riding side-by-side, Lorn and Kusyl ride toward the Accursed Forest, turning their mounts onto the wall road.

Beside all this, Roderic had had communicated to him, by a supernatural afflatus, that wondrous art, as yet unknown in the plains of Albion, of turning up the soil with a share of iron, and scattering it with a small quantity of those grains which are most useful to man, to expect to gather, after a short interval, a forty-fold increase.

The garrotte goes round his neck at the start of the Allegretto grazioso, keeps turning like you turn a can opener until the breath is out of his body and his neck is cut through.

Old Pete, who today actually smelt of old peat, for he had been turning his allotment beds.

I heard a clashing concussion and was hit violently behind, and turning saw a man carrying a basket of soda-water syphons, and looking in amazement at his burden.

Then she saw the white dot appear, a dot that expanded most amazingly until she realized that it was a face rushing toward her, a face with no body, turning and turning, its long white hair and beard floating around it.

Whether or not she realized it, she was an invaluable source of information, Ambrose thought, turning a page of the newspaper.

He began to take little drops of glass from the furnace on the end of a thin iron, and he drew them out into thick threads and heated them again and laid them on the body of the ampulla, twisting and turning each bit till he had no more, and forming a regular raised design on the surface.

They grew legs, and around them sprang up an annulus of fire, which they survived, turning.

How could she explain turning down an offer that any normal antiquarian would grab?

Medina apostatized from their Faith, turning back to the idolatry of pagan times.

Oriental adversary and turning it into at least an approximation of an acceptable, healthy, westernized nation.

On arriving within gunshot of the fort he ordered us to quicken our pace to gain a little bridle-path on the left, leading to the summit of Mont Albaredo, and turning the town and fort of Bard.

Then Elbryan came up in a reverse spin, turning in front of the rockman, going hard against the wall, and angling to get in between Quintall and the stone.