turning 
turn·ing (tʉr′niŋ)
noun
- the action of a person or thing that turns
- a place where a road turns or turns off
- the art or process of shaping things on or as on a lathe
turning
modif.
Converse of object
- signpost: After leaving Blakeney continue for approximately 2 miles until reaching a right turning signposted Awre.
- ignore: Turn right in front of public house, pass under bridge & ignore first turning on right to car park.
- miss: If you miss the turning into Flag lane South then turn right at the traffic lights and then first right after about 200 yards.
- take: Take the next turning on your right into Boden Street.
- leave: Take the first turning left into Cloth Street, then the second turning on the right into Newbury Street.
- pass: Just think: on the road you have right of way passing a side turning.
Preposition: on
- left: Stanton Avenue is the second turning on the left.
Adjective modifier
- southward: The superposed epoch studies were carried out using the time of the southward turning as time zero.
- wrong: We managed to take a wrong turning which meant an unnecessary detour, with every light seeming to work against us.
- 3rd: Take the 3rd turning on the left, into St Mildred's Road, then 1st left into Queen Bertha Road.
- 2nd: You will see Regent Terrace as the 2nd turning on the right after the Zebra crossing.
- 1st: Take the 1st turning on the right into Weighhouse Street.
- 4th: Queen Anne's Road is the 4th turning on the left.
Modifies a noun
- circle: Fitted to cranks to shorten distance between pedals, making a shorter turning circle for short legs.
Noun used with modifier
- spindle: Bowl turning will require a larger lathe than spindle turning.
- wood: Ralph Curry will teach the art of wood turning.
- bowl: Bowl turning will require a larger lathe than spindle turning.
- tide: Meanwhile, the signs of the tide turning are quite evident in this tiny corner of paradise.
Preposition: of
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.
To those who wait with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning. See Fry 340:25.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. SeeAchebe 2:18.
Browse dictionary entries near turning
- ‹ turnery
- ‹ Turner, Ted
- ‹ Turner's syndrome
- ‹ turner
- ‹ turned
- ‹ turndown
- ‹ turncoat
- ‹ turnbuckle
- ‹ turnaround
- ‹ turnabout
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