Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive, idiomatic To result; end up.
- v. intransitive, idiomatic To attend; show up.
- v. transitive, idiomatic To extinguish a light or other device
- v. intransitive, idiomatic To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
- v. transitive, idiomatic To produce; make.
- v. intransitive To leave a road.
- v. transitive To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
- v. transitive, idiomatic To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
Examples
“What would turn out to be a most unusual day started off in the usual fashion, with my traditional morning meal at the Bar Roma, then the soothing drive along the lake, up through Menaggio and Croce and beneath the gates of Far and Sure.”
“For Clarissa Siebern, whom you will meet in chapter 15, her alleged Spirit guides instruct her to say or do novel things that turn out to be timely and meaningful, and are evidential of her emerging intuitive abilities.”
“By the end of that year, these efforts produced a new Iraq policythe surgewhich provided the president and his administration with a new basis to hope that the disaster in Iraq might turn out better than many people, including most Americans, had come to believe.”
“We went off, then, on the first of what would turn out to be many, many searches for Valters golf ball.”
“AND, INDEED, THE Dark Ages did turn out to be extremely dark: coal-black and jet-black, pitch-black and ink-black.”
“Karl would begin what would turn out to be a personal-worst day for him by putting uncharacteristically poorly.”
“Who would have guessed that a whispering spirit would turn out to be so meaningful and evidential?”
“Still, he told Joy that her high ANA titer was worrisome and would likely turn out to be indicative of an autoimmune disease down the road.”
“Sometimes deputies turn out to be good at the top jobScowcroft was in 1975, and so was Powellbut that is not always the case.”
“Kind and reliable as Francisco would turn out to be, I did not know him at the time and did not really know Doris, so, with Amanda and the girls along as pretournament supporters, I drove from Mezzegra up the lake to Menaggio in a cloud of uncertainty.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘turn out’.
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ENVI - Collocations TUVWXYZ
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
T rolls, table sugar, table wine, tabular block, tabular ice, tackle habitat de..., tackle hunger, tackle problems, tackle the crisis, tackle the escala..., tackle the waste ..., tagged image file... and 3050 more...
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phrasal verbs: OUT
turn out, age out, blank out, fade out, opt out, freak out, lash out, storm out, single out, wring out, chicken out, pig out and 72 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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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Francis Ford Copulae
From wikipedia: ". . . a copula is a word used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement or an adverbial)." Also known as linking verbs.
act, appear, be, become, get, grow, fall, feel, keep, look, prove, remain and 9 more...
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Most Frequently Used English Idioms
about to, according to, account for, all of a sudden, after all, as far as, as for, as if, as long as, as soon as, as to, as well as and 70 more...
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week 1
diffident, self-possessed, panelist, thorough, emulate, fancy, witty, swallow, merge, forecast, fringe, executive and 42 more...
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OM1 Lesson 6
missing, concert, purse, find, key, everywhere, could, embarrassed, envelope, thought, realize, everything and 11 more...
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