turned betydelse and definition

Betydelse av turned på svenska

• 0 past simple and past participle of turn

• 1 to (cause to) move in a circle around a fixed point or line:

  • The earth turns on its axis once every 24 hours.

  • She turned on her toes, holding out her skirt.

  • The wheels started to turn (around).

  • Turn the steering wheel as quickly as you can.

  • She turned the doorknob and quietly opened the door.

  • Slowly, I turned the door handle.

• 2 to (cause to) change the direction in which you are facing or moving:

  • Turn right at the traffic lights.

  • The path twists and turns for the next half mile.

  • We have to turn down/into/up the next road on the right.

  • Plants tend to turn towards the source of light.

  • She turned to face him.

  • He turned round and waved to us.

  • He turned on his heel (= turned quickly to face the opposite direction) and left the room.

  • The person on my left turned to me and whispered "Not another speech!"

  • His wife tried to speak to him, but he turned his back (on her)/turned away (from her) (= moved so that his back, not his face, was towards her to show his anger).

  • At about three o'clock, the tide started to turn (= the sea started to come closer to or move away from the beach).

  • He turned his head to me to listen.

  • I'll just turn the car round and go back the way we came.

  • We watched until the car had turned (= gone around) the corner.

  • The army turned their guns on (= pointed them at and started to shoot at) the protesters.

  • She can turn (= perform) a somersault.

• 3 to move, or to move an object or page, so that a different side or surface is on the top:

  • Now turn the page, please, and start work on Exercise 2.

  • She turned the vase over to look for the price.

  • He turned over two or three pages.

  • She put out the light, turned over (= rolled in order to face in another direction) and went to sleep.

  • Now turn to (= open the book at) page 23 and look at the first paragraph.

• 4 to (cause to) become, change into, or come to be something:

  • The weather has suddenly turned cold.

  • When I refused to pay, he turned nasty.

  • She turned pale and started to shiver.

  • The mood of the meeting turned solemn when the extent of the problem became known.

  • The companies worked well together for a while, but eventually the relationship turned sour (= became bad).

  • Keele, pop star turned business tycoon, has launched a new range of cosmetics.

  • The dry weather turned the soil into/to concrete.

  • By the end of September, the leaves have started to turn (= become brown).

  • Her attitude turned from politely interested to enthusiastic during the course of our conversation.

  • She turned 18 last year.

  • It's just turned ten o'clock.

• 5 to use a control to switch a piece of equipment or a power or water supply on or off, or to increase or reduce what it is producing:

  • Turn off/out the light.

  • Who turned the TV on?

  • I asked him to turn down the heating.

  • Turn the sound up - I can't hear what they're saying.

  • The heater turns off (= can be switched off) using this switch.

• 6 to damage the muscles in the foot by suddenly twisting it too strongly:

  • She turned her ankle on the rocks and had to hobble back to camp.

• 7 to shape a piece of wood while it is attached to a machine that spins it:

  • a turned bowl