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TURN OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get up and out of bed
Example:
He uprose at night
Synonyms:
arise; get up; rise; turn out; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue turn out
Antonym:
turn in (prepare for sleep)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
Example:
How many people turned out that evening?
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
appear (come into sight or view)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Put out or expel from a place
Example:
The unruly student was excluded from the game
Synonyms:
boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)
evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)
show the door (ask to leave)
bounce (eject from the premises)
exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
Example:
turn out the lights
Synonyms:
cut; switch off; turn off; turn out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
flip; switch; throw (cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
kill (cause to cease operating)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
Example:
This factory turns out saws
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
turnout (what is produced in a given time period)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Bring forth
Example:
The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers
Synonyms:
bear; turn out
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
spin off (produce as a consequence of something larger)
seed (bear seeds)
crop (yield crops)
overbear (bear too much)
fruit (bear fruit)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 7
Meaning:
Turn outward
Example:
ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees
Synonyms:
rotate; splay; spread out; turn out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
turnout ((ballet) the outward rotation of a dancer's leg from the hip)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Outfit or equip, as with accessories
Example:
The actors were turned out lavishly
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
turnout (a set of clothing (with accessories))
Sense 9
Meaning:
Come and gather for a public event
Example:
Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
turnout (attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election))
turnout (the group that gathers together for a particular occasion)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Result or end
Example:
How will the game turn out?
Synonyms:
come out; turn out
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
eventuate (come out in the end)
work out (happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 11
Meaning:
Be shown or be found to be
Example:
She turned up HIV positive
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 12
Meaning:
Prove to be in the result or end
Example:
It turns out that he was right
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Sentence frame:
It ----s that CLAUSE
Context examples:
But I shall be surprised if it does not turn out to be correct.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To begin with, Hannah's cooking didn't turn out well.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
If the medical students turn out there will be no end of a rag.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Don't long for poison—don't turn out a downright Eve on my hands!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
About every tenth bird species — ca. 800 species — in the world hunts under water, and it may turn out that they too can also hear under water.
(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“Well, Watson, it’s as well we have not to turn out to-night,” said Holmes, laying aside his lens and rolling up the palimpsest.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I forgot to inquire,” he went on suavely, “as to the nature of your occupation. What commodities do you turn out? What tools and materials do you require?”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
To hear them talking so much of Captain Wentworth, repeating his name so often, puzzling over past years, and at last ascertaining that it might, that it probably would, turn out to be the very same Captain Wentworth whom they recollected meeting, once or twice, after their coming back from Clifton—a very fine young man—but they could not say whether it was seven or eight years ago, was a new sort of trial to Anne's nerves.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The sparrow, seeing that the carter did not turn out of the way, but would go on in the track in which the dog lay, so as to drive over him, called out, Stop! stop!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
This person could turn out to be a new romantic interest for you, dear Virgo
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
