Crossword clues for turn out
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive idiomatic English) To result; end up.
WordNet
v. be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive" [syn: prove, turn up]
prove to be in the result or end; "It turns out that he was right"
produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery; "This factory turns out saws"
prove to be in the result or end; "How will the game turn out?" [syn: come out]
come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons; "How many people turned out that evening?"
bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" [syn: bear]
put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from the classroom" [syn: expel, eject, chuck out, exclude, throw out, kick out, turf out, boot out]
come and gather for a public event; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York"
outfit or equip, as with accessories; "The actors were turned out lavishly"
turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" [syn: splay, spread out, rotate]
cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights" [syn: switch off, cut, turn off] [ant: switch on]
get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, arise, uprise, rise] [ant: go to bed, go to bed]
Usage examples of "turn out".
It was very pleasant next day to turn out the old shed and make it tidy and clean.
I hate to break it to you, but thats a pretty large hint about how things are going to turn out between her and old Hank.
Charcoal is a beautiful thing to turn out, when your kiln is burnt and opened up, and the contents spread on the ground.
And by going upstairs to bed he invariably disturbed his wife on those occasions when it was necessary for him to turn out.
She was somehow quite sure that this would not turn out to be a one-off fuck, another one-night stand.
I had no claim to any help from her and I felt considerably like a heel for letting her take on what could turn out to be a very dirty chore.
This whole charade could turn out to be unnecessary, itches and all.
First, knowing that he's off Minbar, every bounty hunter, every crackpot, every nutcase is going to turn out in force looking for him.
But I'm just an ordinary chap who's content to take his reading from the popular novelists who can turn out a good, interesting story.
I don't think either one of us ever imagined just how big it would turn out to be.