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English
Etymology
to turn + over
Pronunciation
Verb
turn over (third-person singular simple present turns over, present participle turning over, simple past and past participle turned over)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.
- To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
Turn over the box and look at the bottom.
1952 October, “Notes and News: Derailment near Shawford”, in Railway Magazine, page 710:The brakes were applied immediately, but the engine ran into a sand drag at approximately 20 m.p.h., plunged down the embankment, and turned over on its side at the bottom.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
They turned over the evidence to the authorities.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IX, Working Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):But what is to be done with our manufacturing population […] This one thing, of doing for them by ‘underselling all people,’ and filling our own bursten pockets and appetites by the road; and turning over all care for any ‘population,’ or human or divine consideration except cash only, to the winds, with a “Laissez-faire” and the rest of it: this is evidently not the thing.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
They can turn over about three hundred units per hour.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
The business turned over £1m last year.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games.
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
I've turned over the whole place, but I still can't find my glasses.
Thieves turned over the apartment while the owners were away on holiday.
Translations
to flip over
- Arabic: قَلَبَ (ar) (qalaba)
- Armenian: շրջել (hy) (šrǰel)
- Assamese: লুটিওৱা (lutiüa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 翻過 / 翻过 (zh) (fānguò), 翻轉 / 翻转 (zh) (fānzhuǎn)
- Esperanto: renversi
- Finnish: kääntää ympäri
- French: retourner (fr), renverser (fr)
- German: umdrehen (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀναστρέφω (anastréphō)
- Italian: ribaltare (it), capovolgere (it)
- Japanese: 裏返す (ja) (うらがえす, uragaesu), ひっくり返す (ja) (ひっくりかえす, hikkurikaesu, ひっくりがえす, hikkurigaesu)
- Ladin: drusé
- Portuguese: inverter (pt)
- Quechua: t'ikray (qu)
- Russian: перевора́чивать (ru) impf (perevoráčivatʹ), переверну́ть (ru) pf (perevernútʹ), (intransitive) перевора́чиваться (ru) impf (perevoráčivatʹsja), переверну́ться (ru) pf (perevernútʹsja)
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sports: to give up control
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