Crossword clues for in turn
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turn \Turn\, n.
The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
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Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.
At length his complaint took a favorable turn.
--Macaulay.The turns and varieties of all passions.
--Hooker.Too well the turns of mortal chance I know.
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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.
And all its [the river's] thousand turns disclose. Some fresher beauty varying round.
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A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.
Come, you and I must walk a turn together.
--Shak.I will take a turn in your garden.
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Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time. ``Nobleness and bounty . . . had their turns in his [the king's] nature.''
His turn will come to laugh at you again.
--Denham.Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
Had I not done a friendes turn to thee?
--Chaucer.thanks are half lost when good turns are delayed.
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Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
I have enough to serve mine own turn.
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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.
The turn of both his expressions and thoughts is unharmonious.
--Dryden.The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms.
--Addison. A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn. [Colloq.]
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. [Obs.]
A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
(Mining) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
(Eng. Law) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
--Blount.pl. (Med.) Monthly courses; menses. [Colloq.]
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(Mus.) 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 ?. By turns.
One after another; alternately; in succession.
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At intervals. ``[They] feel by turns the bitter change.''
--Milton.In turn, in due order of succession.
To a turn, exactly; perfectly; as, done to a turn; -- a phrase alluding to the practice of cooking on a revolving spit.
To take turns, to alternate; to succeed one another in due order.
Turn and turn about, by equal alternating periods of service or duty; by turns.
Turn bench, a simple portable lathe, used on a bench by clock makers and watchmakers.
Turn buckle. See Turnbuckle, in Vocabulary.
Turn cap, a sort of chimney cap which turns round with the wind so as to present its opening to the leeward.
--G. Francis.Turn of life (Med.), change of life. See under Change.
Turn screw, a screw driver.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 One after the other; one at a time; in succession; successively. 2 In due order; in proper sequence; in a determined or measured sequence, as a waiting line or queue. 3 In response; in return. 4 Having a relationship sequentially comparable to one just mentioned; accordingly or similarly, with respect to sequence, precedence, or hierarchy.''Kibbitzer 51'', “In turn”,
WordNet
adv. in proper order or sequence; "talked to each child in turn"; "the stable became in turn a chapel and then a movie theater" [syn: successively]
Usage examples of "in turn".
More likely he was here on a general recruiting trip and had just seen her by accident, which in turn meant that they might have tried to find other donors through an ad in the personals section of the paper.
For Kalas controlled the Allheart Knights, and they, in turn, controlled the general army of Ursal, a force that could sweep aside any resistance in the southland.
Prince Midalis nodded and motioned for his friends to follow him into the tent, and each ducked in turn beneath the doeskin flap.
Pony glanced at the other three in the room in turn, settling on Bradwarden for a bit, silently asking him for agreement, and when he nodded his understanding, she turned directly to Midalis.
While Midalis organized the strike forces, Pony again went to the moored dozen warships, her ghost moving through each of them in turn to make sure that none was heavily crewed.
Pony explained the situation at length to Pagonel, who in turn spelled it out for Brynn.
Each time the revolving beam swept round the dial it lit them in turn, two clear bright blobs of light which began to fade as the beam moved on past each one and had vanished in the few seconds it took the ray of light to get round to them again.
And since he gave me a thing of such value I regretted that I could not in turn satisfy his quest for knowledge.
The thought of it filled him with rage, which in turn increased his sensitivity.
As the Poles had fought to the last in Warsaw against vastly superior Nazi forces, so now the Germans, embattled in turn, were making Warsaw a fortress against the overwhelming might of the Lizards.
The officer in turn gave it to Teerts, making sure all the while that the flight leader could not grab his small firearm.
But Lance glanced at the brightly painted big rig, at the empty grandstands and the suites in turn one nonetheless.
If you grant us this concession we in turn will put you in possession of a magnificent idea.
Save the blazes of our language, for we cursed the fire in turn Till the atmosphere was heated and the wood began to burn.
We loved her fair, we had much to learn -- And each was stabbed to the heart in turn By the girl who -- loved us both.