| adjourn | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: break up, recess |
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| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: retire, withdraw |
| adjournment | (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) the act of postponing to another time or place | - |
| afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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| auburn | (adjective) (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown | - |
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| barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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| (noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
| bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |
| bourne | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourn |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourn |
| burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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| (noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
| (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
| (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
| (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
| (verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
| (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
| (verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
| (verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) feel hot or painful | - |
| (verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
| (verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| burnable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: ignitable, ignitible |
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| burned | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burnt |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out, burnt |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burnt |
| burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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| (noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
| (noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
| (noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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| burnous | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnouse |
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| burnouse | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnous |
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| burnside | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn |
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| burnt | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burned |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burned, burnt-out |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burned |
| burnup | (noun) the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) | - |
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| (noun) a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road | - |
| churn | (noun) a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk | Synonyms: butter churn |
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| (verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter | - |
| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, moil, roil |
| churning | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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| (adjective) moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation | Synonyms: churned-up |
| diurnal | (adjective) of or belonging to or active during the day | - |
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| (adjective) having a daily cycle or occurring every day | - |
| downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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| eburnation | (noun) a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory | - |
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| furnace | (noun) an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. | - |
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| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| furnished | (adjective) provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority) | Synonyms: equipped |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| furniture | (noun) furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy | Synonyms: article of furniture, piece of furniture |
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| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| gurney | (noun) a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
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| heartburn | (noun) a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder | Synonyms: pyrosis |
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| heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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| journal | (noun) the part of the axle contained by a bearing | - |
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| (noun) a record book as a physical object | - |
| (noun) a periodical dedicated to a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: diary |
| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: daybook |
| journalese | (noun) the style in which newspapers are written | - |
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| journalism | (noun) the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media | - |
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| (noun) newspapers and magazines collectively | Synonyms: news media |
| journalist | (noun) a writer for newspapers and magazines | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diarist, diary keeper |
| journalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism | - |
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| journalistically | (adverb) by journalists | - |
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| journey | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journeying |
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| (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: travel |
| (verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: travel |
| journeyer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: wayfarer |
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| journeying | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journey |
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| journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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| mourn | (verb) feel sadness | - |
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| (verb) observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one | - |
| mourner | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, sorrower |
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| mournful | (adjective) filled with or evoking sadness | Synonyms: doleful |
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| (adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: plaintive |
| mournfully | (adverb) in a mournful manner | - |
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| mournfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: ruthfulness, sorrowfulness |
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| mourning | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing |
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| (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: lamentation |
| (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: bereavement |
| nocturnal | (adjective) belonging to or active during the night | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or occurring in the night | - |
| nocturnally | (adverb) at night | - |
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| nocturne | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: notturno |
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| nonreturnable | (adjective) that may not be returned | - |
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| notturno | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: nocturne |
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| outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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| overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
| (verb) change radically | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, reverse |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) turn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: tip over, tump over, turn over |
| (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset |
| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, subvert |
| overturned | (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: upset, upturned |
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| photojournalism | (noun) journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures | - |
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| photojournalist | (noun) a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs | - |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| return | (noun) the act of going back to a prior location | - |
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| (noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: homecoming |
| (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restitution, restoration |
| (noun) a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player | - |
| (noun) (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble | - |
| (noun) a reciprocal group action | Synonyms: getting even, paying back |
| (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: reappearance |
| (noun) the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed | Synonyms: return key |
| (noun) document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability | Synonyms: income tax return, tax return |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, riposte |
| (noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals) | Synonyms: recurrence |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction | Synonyms: coming back |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, take, takings, yield |
| (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, revert, turn back |
| (verb) be restored | Synonyms: come back |
| (verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, recall |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, riposte |
| (verb) submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority | - |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, render |
| (verb) make a return | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, yield |
| (verb) go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before | - |
| (verb) return to a previous position; in mathematics | - |
| (verb) bring back to the point of departure | Synonyms: bring back, take back |
| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, repay |
| (verb) return in kind | - |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass |
| (verb) elect again | Synonyms: reelect |
| returnable | (adjective) that may be returned | - |
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| returning | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: reversive |
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| (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: reverting |
| saturnalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot |
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| saturniid | (noun) large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons | Synonyms: saturniid moth |
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| saturnine | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen |
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| (adjective) bitter or scornful | - |
| saturnism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, plumbism |
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| sideburn | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers |
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| sojourn | (noun) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) | Synonyms: visit |
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| (verb) spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily | - |
| sojourner | (noun) a temporary resident | - |
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| sourness | (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sour |
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| (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sulkiness, sullenness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, tartness |
| spurn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, turn down |
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| spurned | (adjective) rebuffed (by a lover) without warning | Synonyms: jilted, rejected |
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| spurner | (noun) a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt | - |
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| sunburn | (noun) redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: erythema solare |
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| (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: burn |
| sunburned | (adjective) suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight | Synonyms: sunburnt |
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| sunburnt | (adjective) suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight | Synonyms: sunburned |
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| surname | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: cognomen, family name, last name |
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| taciturn | (adjective) habitually reserved and uncommunicative | - |
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| taciturnity | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reserve, reticence |
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| taciturnly | (adverb) without speaking | Synonyms: mutely, silently, wordlessly |
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| tournament | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tourney |
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| (noun) a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize | - |
| tournedos | (noun) thick steak cut from the beef tenderloin | - |
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| tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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| (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
| tourniquet | (noun) bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure | Synonyms: compression bandage |
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| turn | (noun) the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course | Synonyms: turning |
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| (noun) the act of turning away or in the opposite direction | - |
| (noun) taking a short walk out and back | - |
| (noun) a favor for someone | Synonyms: good turn |
| (noun) (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession | Synonyms: play |
| (noun) turning or twisting around (in place) | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, number, routine |
| (noun) a movement in a new direction | Synonyms: turning |
| (noun) an unforeseen development | Synonyms: turn of events, twist |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, crook, twist |
| (noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: bout, round |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, spell, tour |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, twist, wrench, wrick |
| (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, reverse |
| (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, sour, work |
| (verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) undergo a transformation or a change of position or action | Synonyms: change state |
| (verb) change color | - |
| (verb) become officially one year older | - |
| (verb) have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to | Synonyms: call on |
| (verb) direct at someone | - |
| (verb) shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel | - |
| (verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: release |
| (verb) alter the functioning or setting of | - |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, twist |
| (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plough, plow |
| (verb) to change orientation or direction | - |
| (verb) cause to move around a center so as to show another side of | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) cause to move around or rotate | - |
| (verb) pass to the other side of | Synonyms: move around |
| (verb) move around an axis or a center | - |
| (verb) to send or let go | - |
| (verb) cause to move along an axis or into a new direction | - |
| (verb) channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something | - |
| (verb) get by buying and selling | - |
| (verb) accomplish by rotating | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: become |
| (verb) cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics | - |
| turnability | (noun) The property of being able to turn | - |
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| turnabout | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnaround |
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| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnaround |
| turnaround | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnabout |
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| (noun) act or process of unloading and loading and servicing a vessel or aircraft for a return trip | Synonyms: turnround |
| (noun) an area sufficiently large for a vehicle to turn around | - |
| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnabout |
| (noun) time need to prepare a vessel or ship for a return trip | Synonyms: turnaround time |
| turnbuckle | (noun) an oblong metal coupling with a swivel at one end and an internal thread at the other into which a threaded rod can be screwed in order to form a unit that can be adjusted for length or tension | - |
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| turncoat | (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, recreant, renegade |
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| turncock | (noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: cock, stopcock |
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| (noun) one employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and off | - |
| turndown | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: nonacceptance |
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| turned | (adjective) moved around an axis or center | - |
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| (adjective) in an unpalatable state | Synonyms: off, sour |
| turner | (noun) cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food | Synonyms: food turner |
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| (noun) one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope | - |
| (noun) a lathe operator | - |
| (noun) a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein | - |
| turnery | (noun) products made on a lathe | - |
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| (noun) workshop where objects are made on a lathe | - |
| turning | (noun) the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course | Synonyms: turn |
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| (noun) act of changing in practice or custom | - |
| (noun) the activity of shaping something on a lathe | - |
| (noun) the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe | - |
| (noun) a movement in a new direction | Synonyms: turn |
| (noun) a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe | - |