Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To revolve or rotate around a centre. 2 (context intransitive English) To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction. 3 (context intransitive English) To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.). 4 (context transitive archaic English) To make revolve, rotate. 5 (context transitive English) To put into an opposing position; to reverse. 6 (context transitive English) To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure. 7 (context transitive colloquial English) To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
Usage examples of "turn round".
He now has to drop and secure his oar, turn round on his centre half way, seize his harpoon from the crotch, and with what little strength may remain, he essays to pitch it somehow into the whale.
Fortunately, I hallooed loud enough to make O'Brien, who was close down to the boats, with a large cod-fish under each arm, turn round and come to my assistance.
For a time, there reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the monster might turn round upon us, and rend us at last in the remotest and most savage seas.
An unsuspected talent which has long lain dormant needs, when waked, a second or so to turn round in.
I looked back over the turnstile and she was there waving goodbye to me with tears running down her face, and I waved back to her, and then I had to turn round and go down to the train.
As I came, a zaphilote alighted on the head of the body that hung nearest to me, and its weight, or the wafting of the fowl's wing, caused the dead man to turn round so that he came face to face with me.
Whenever he raised his eyes from his own display panel and controls, he could look over Captain Colbys shoulder, and when Colby happened to turn round in his combat chair, Talavera could see the captains face.
This encouraged me to turn round, which I did as soon as I had finished addressing the last envelope.
There is nothing to be done but to turn round, and hoe back to the other end.
Seeing that the tide was running too forcibly against him to be resisted, Somerset deemed it prudent to turn round, but he did so with an ill grace.
I feel as though I were made to turn round and round, or against my will impelled to go forwards, or backwards, or to one side.
In the end, they do get it clear, and then turn round and find that the boat has drifted off, and is making straight for the weir.
I was too frightened to know how long it was before the opening of the cottage door made me turn round.
Humanity, they argued, having climbed to the top round of the ladder of civilization, was about to take a header into chaos, after which it would doubtless pick itself up, turn round, and begin to climb again.
But the atmosphere was so charged with emotion that people only seemed to exist on her account, and she was surprised that Crane did not realize this, and turn round.