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turn over

vb. 1 (&lit turn over English) 2 To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom. 3 (context transitive idiomatic English) To relinquish; give back. 4 (context transitive idiomatic English) To transfer. 5 (context transitive idiomatic English) To produce, complete, or cycle through. 6 (context transitive English) To mull, ponder 7 (context transitive intransitive English) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run. 8 (context transitive sports English) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).

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turn over
  1. v. place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" [syn: pass, hand, reach, pass on, give]

  2. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer" [syn: overturn, tip over, upset, knock over, bowl over, tump over]

  3. move by turning over or rotating; "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side" [syn: roll]

  4. turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" [syn: dig, delve, cut into]

  5. do business worth a certain amount of money; "The company turns over ten million dollars a year"

  6. cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; "turn a page of a book" [syn: turn]

  7. turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over" [syn: overturn, tip over, tump over]

  8. turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse; "flip over the pork chop"; "turn over the pancakes" [syn: flip, flip over]

  9. think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, deliberate]

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Turn Over

Turn Over is the first live album of the Japanese rock group Show-Ya. It is a collection of live songs recorded during concerts from the "Date Line Tour" and "Immigration Tour" in 1987, and from the "Tour of the Immigrant" in 1988. The album reached position No. 36 in the Japanese Oricon chart.

Usage examples of "turn over".

But there are numbers of other jobs that men do that they would be only too willing to turn over to the robots.

The nearest of the sloths was a couple hundred feet away, and about a dozen more were edging up behind him, all grunting as they came, sounding like stalled engines trying to turn over.

He nodded again, and as he looked at her crystal green eyes and small pert mouth, his heart seemed to turn over.

It's unusual to turn over a full slate of operants on the same day.

Its surface was a treacherous scum that could break up or turn over any moment.

Anything we can uncover in the process which might help our winged friends, we turn over to them.

Out of the great-spiritedness of our elders we were delegated to come your way and turn over to you technological and social secrets which would turn you out of the age of darkness in which we found you.

It is no longer necessary, as the others wrongly told you, for the others to be similarly educated, for you to go through a period of orientation before we can turn over to you the tools of knowledge.

He looked again at the bald prose ordering him to turn over his command to his chief of staff and report to First Army Headquarters in New York.

And on their walks he would poke into the dank trash heaps the sea had lofted and turn over stones to see what dwelled beneath.

It wasn't until after the brief battle was over, and she was able to turn over the laser-blackened corpse and get a clear look at the wavy, flame-shaped canines that she could positively identify the beast.