English - English (Wordnet) dictionary
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Verb
- get up and out of bed
- I get up at 7 A.M. every day
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- Turn off the stereo, please
- turn outward
- These birds can splay out their toes
- ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
- The actors were turned out lavishly
- come and gather for a public event
- Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York
- put out or expel from a place
- The unruly student was excluded from the game
- bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"
- The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- How many people turned out that evening?
- result or end
- How will the game turn out?
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- This factory turns out saws
- prove to be in the result or end
- It turns out that he was right
- be shown or be found to be
- The medicine turned out to save her life
- She turned up HIV positive