Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of turnaround.
- v. transitive, intransitive, reflexive To physically rotate horizontally 360 degrees.
- v. transitive, intransitive, reflexive To change to the opposite direction from a previous position.
- v. transitive, intransitive, reflexive, sports To reverse the expected outcome of a game, usually from a losing position to a winning one.
- v. transitive, business, management To reverse a trend, usually towards a more favorable outcome; to return (a business, department) to effectiveness, profitability, etc.
- v. transitive, idiomatic, colloquial To be duplicitous.
- v. transitive, idiomatic, of an idea To consider from a different viewpoint.
- v. transitive, idiomatic, colloquial (often with a unit of time) To produce; to output; to generate
- v. idiomatic, buzzword, with "180 degrees" To effect a positive reversal of a trend.
- v. idiomatic, buzzword, with "360 degrees" To make a situation worse by trying to make it better.
WordNet 3.0
- v. improve dramatically
- v. improve significantly; go from bad to good
- n. turning in an opposite direction or position
- v. turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically
Examples
“Pointing guide-like to the chandeliers and the marble, I see that the people around us, loaded with string bags on their way from work, turn around to look.”
“After resting, we would turn around and do it in reverse, North Rim to South Rim.”
“And the thing that prompted you to turn around and drive home at approximately eight-twenty P.M. was … ?”
“The one-horn nickered and tried to turn around to lick her hand.”
“I thought it was pretty cheeky of Salvador to turn around and bite our ankles at IFAD when we were providing enormous military and economic aid to help it fend off a vigorous, Cuban-backed Communist insurgency, but I came to see this was just business as usual at the UN.”
“The new clubs, the next lesson, a tip you read in your golf magazine or heard from a playing partnersomehow things will turn around and you will be good.”
“I dont know what possessed me to turn around and declare to the woman closest to me, Im in love with Juan Carlos Romaguera!”
“Bob told me when I stood on the steps crying as Kirstin went off to her first day of kindergarten, that it would go fast, he said turn around and she'll be grown and off to college.”
“Sincerity was evident in his softspoken statement, which prompted me to slowly turn around to face him.”
“Reed Spencer Robinson, famous spy, knew how to turn around any situation.”
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FUN - gestures
There are thousands of sign languages and possibly millions of gestures in human communication but not all of them have a name. Some are understood everywhere, some are understood everywhere but di...
okay sign, abhayamudra, apology, beckoning sign, Bellamy salute, benediction, blessing, blah-blah, "check, please” sign, clenched fist, Chinese number ge..., Clinton thumb and 360 more...
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phrasal verbs: turn
Phrasal verbs using the verb turn
turn up, turn on, turn in, turn away, turn around, turn off, turn down, turn round, turn out, turn about, turn toward, turn to and 3 more...
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song starters (twisted song starters)
Words/phrases inextricably tied to the songs they're in, sparking off earworms here there & everywhere (there's one, to start with). Only my own personal examples.
Do guess the more p...as i recall, here there and ev..., firestarter, final countdown, every now and then, turn around, pipe wrench, goodness gracious, insane, fuck you, scat, 21 seconds and 79 more...
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