Turning - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- act of changing in practice or custom
- a movement in a new direction (syn: turn)
- the activity of shaping something on a lathe
Extra examples
He must have taken a wrong turning in the dark.
Take the first turning on the left.
He controlled the volume by turning the radio's knob.
The company was in debt but is now turning a profit.
Save money by turning the temperature settings up in the summer and down in the winter.
She was lying awake, tossing and turning.
She played soccer as an amateur before turning professional.
His editor has a talent for turning literary dross into gold.
She practiced her alchemy in the kitchen, turning a pile of vegetables into a delicious salad.
...one can be a social drinker without turning into an alcoholic...
...a multiplicity of suggestions for turning the company around...
...we knew the rosebush had survived the harsh winter when it began producing offshoots and turning green again...
...a program for rehabilitating hard-core reprobates and turning them into hard-working, law-abiding citizens...
...some claimed that orphanages were seminaries of sin and petty crime, turning out juvenile delinquents by the score...
...answered three sequent questions from one reporter before turning to the others...
Word forms
singular: turning
plural: turnings
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