Meaning of TURNING
| Pronunciation: | | 'turning
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- [n] act of changing in practice or custom; "the law took many turnings over the years"
- [n] the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; "he took a turn to the right"
- [n] a movement in a new direction; "the turning of the wind"
- [adj] turning about an axis
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| | Synonyms: | | moving, revolving, rotating, turn, turn, wheeling |
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| | See Also: | | change, change of course, coming back, deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion, gyration, kick turn, left, motion, movement, return, reversal, revolution, right, rotation, stem, stem turn, swerve, swerve, swerving, telemark, three-point turn, turn around, veering, version, volution, yaw | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Turn"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding;
a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.
Through paths and turnings often trod by day.
--Milton.
2. The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.
It is preached at every turning. --Coleridge.
3. Deviation from the way or proper course. --Harmar.
4. Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various
by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
5. pl. The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of
turning from the material turned.
6. (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.
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