turning
turning is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road. It is preached at every turning. Coleridge.
- 2.Deviation from the way or proper course. Harmar.
- 3.Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
- 4.pl. The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.
- 5.(Mil.) A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned. Turning and boring mill, a kind of lathe having a vertical spindle and horizontal face plate, for turning and boring large work. -- Turning bridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. -- Turning engine, an engine lathe. -- Turning lathe, a lathe used by turners to shape their work. -- Turning pair. See the Note under Pair, n. -- Turning point, the point upon which a question turns, and which decides a case.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- according
- accordingly
- adventitious
- and
- ant
- are
- attitude
- attribution
- backwoods
- being
- beyond
- boundary
- bourn
- but
- case
- causation
- certain
- circumstance
- circumstantial
- circumvallation
- clear
- conditional
- conditionally
- confine
- conjunctive
- conjuncture
- conterminable
- conterminate
- context
- contingency
- contingent
- crisis
- critical
- curbstone
- definite
- demarcation
- dependence
- emergence
- emergency
- enclave
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is turning.
- What is the place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road. It is preached at every turning. Coleridge called?
- What is deviation from the way or proper course. Harmar called?
- What is turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools called?
- What is pl. The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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