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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun turning has 6 senses
- turning(n = noun.act) turn - the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; "he took a turn to the right" is a kind of change of course
- turning(n = noun.act) Array - act of changing in practice or custom; "the law took many turnings over the years" is a kind of change
- turning(n = noun.object) Array - a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe; Array is a kind of paring, shaving, sliver
- turning(n = noun.event) turn - a movement in a new direction; "the turning of the wind" is a kind of motion, movement
- turning(n = noun.artifact) Array - the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe; Array is a kind of end product, output
- turning(n = noun.act) Array - the activity of shaping something on a lathe; Array is a kind of formation, shaping
has particulars: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion, right, left, kick turn, stem, stem turn, telemark, swerve, swerving, veering, three-point turn, version
Derived form verb turn1
Derived form verb turn2
has particulars: reversal, turn around, swerve, yaw, gyration, revolution, rotation, coming back, return, volution
Derived form verb turn1
CIDE DICTIONARY
turning, n.
- The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a flexure; a meander. [1913 Webster]"Through paths and turnings often trod by day." [1913 Webster]
- The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road. [1913 Webster]"It is preached at every turning." [1913 Webster]
- Deviation from the way or proper course. Harmar. [1913 Webster]
- Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various forms by means of a lathe and cutting tools. [1913 Webster]
- The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned; -- usually used in the plural. [1913 Webster]
- A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
turning, n.
1 a a road that branches off another. b a place where this occurs.
2 a use of the lathe. b (in pl.) chips or shavings from a lathe.
1 a a road that branches off another. b a place where this occurs.
2 a use of the lathe. b (in pl.) chips or shavings from a lathe.
Idiom
turning-circle the smallest circle in which a vehicle can turn without reversing. turning-point a point at which a decisive change occurs.
THESAURUS
turning
S-curve, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, about-face, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, angle, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, axial motion, bend, bending, bias, bow, bowing, bowling, branching off, centrifugation, circling, circuition, circuitous, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambages, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circumgyration, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circummigration, circumnavigation, circumrotation, circumvolution, conflexure, convolution, convolutional, corner, crinkle, crinkling, crook, curve, declination, deflection, departing, departure, desultory, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, digression, digressive, discursion, discursive, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errant, errantry, erratic, excursion, excursive, excursus, exorbitation, flection, flex, flexuose, flexuosity, flexuous, flexuousness, flexure, full circle, geanticline, geosyncline, gyrating, gyration, gyre, gyring, hairpin, hairpin turn, indirect, indirection, inflection, intorsion, involute, involuted, involution, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meander, meandering, meandrous, obliquity, orbit, orbiting, out-of-the-way, oxbow, pererration, pivoting, planetary, rambling, reeling, reflection, reverse, reversion, revolution, revolving, right-about, rivose, rivulation, rivulose, roll, rolling, rotating, rotation, rotational motion, roundabout, roundaboutness, rounding, roving, ruffled, serpentine, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sinuate, sinuation, sinuose, sinuosity, sinuous, sinuousness, skew, slant, slinkiness, snakiness, snaky, spin, spinning, spiral, spiraling, stray, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, swirling, swiveling, tack, torsion, torsional, tortile, tortility, tortuosity, tortuous, tortuousness, trolling, trundling, turbination, turn, turnabout, twirling, twist, twisting, twisty, undirected, undulation, vagrant, variation, veer, veering, volte-face, volutation, volution, wandering, warp, wave, waving, wheeling, whir, whirling, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, yaw, zigzagROGET THESAURUS
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Circuition
N circuition, circulation, turn, curvet, excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation, northwest passage, circuit, turning, wrench, evolution, coil, corkscrew, turning, circuitous, circumforaneous, circumfluent, round about, circuition, circulation, turn, curvet, excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation, northwest passage, circuit, turning, wrench, evolution, coil, corkscrew, turning, circuitous, circumforaneous, circumfluent, round about.
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