Turn To

Definition: Turn To

Turn To

Verb

1. Speak to; "He addressed the crowd outside the window".

2. Direct one's interest or attention towards; go into; "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "People turn to mysticism at the turn of a millenium".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Turn To

Acquisition

Profit; make profit, draw profit, turn a quick profit; turn to profit, turn to account; make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of; reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny; make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket; (wealth).

Change

Innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf.

Continuance in action

Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.

Death

Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed).

Deviation

Fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle; (oscillate); go out of one's way; (perform a circuit); lose one's way.

Improvement

Be better; Adjective:, be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.

Inorganization

Verb: turn to dust; mineralize, fossilize.

Inversion

Verb: be inverted; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize, turn turtle.

Straightness

Verb: be straight; Adjective: have no turning; not incline to either side, not bend to either side, not turn to either side, not deviate to either side; go straight; steer for; (directions).

Success

Speed; make progress; (advance); win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper; drive a roaring trade; make profit; (acquire); reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil , gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account; (use).

Use

Render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.

Crosswords: Turn To

It's your turn to be afraid. (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

She did a doodle; your turn to change her. (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr)

-- instead of just waiting for their turn to speak? (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a little paper cup that was sitting by the couch. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Now it's your turn to walk the plank. (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings)

Turn to stone when you comin' home, I can't go on. (Turn To Stone; performing artist: Electric Light Orchestra)

When the boys turn to music, the girls just turn away ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama)

And I will always turn to you (Price of Love; performing artist: Bad English)

So I turn to run (Trouble; performing artist: Coldplay)

Hitch a ride to the end of the highway where the neons turn to wood. (UP AROUND THE BEND; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Turn to a Friend (1953)

I'll Turn to You (1946)

Turn to the Right (1922)

I'LL TURN TO STONE (performing artist: Four Tops )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Amazing Conversions: Why Some Turn to Faith & Others Abandon Religion (reference)

• My Turn To Brag : The Complete Journal For Cats (reference)

• Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue: & Fugue (reference)

• Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che (reference)

• Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Turn to Stone (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Walnut Trees in Old Deer Creek take a turn to gold. Credit: Christine Maxa.

Awaiting her turn to refuel, while operating in the Mediterranean Sea during the Jordanian crisis, 29 April 1957. USS Caloosahatchee (AO-98) is ahead, with USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39) and USS Salem (CA-139) alongside. Note Forrestal's eclectic air group, with F3H-2N, FJ-3M, F9F-8B, F2H-2P, A3D-1, AD-6, and S2F aircraft visible on her flight deck. Credit: NAVY.

LCVPs from USS Noble (APA-218) wait their turn to go up to the Inchon pontoon docks to unload troops and supplies, on the first day of the landings, 15 September 1950. Credit: NAVY.

Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku under attack by planes from USS Yorktown (CV-5) in the morning of 8 May 1942. Splashes from dive bombers' near misses are visible off the ship's starboard side as she makes a sharp turn to the right. Credit: NAVY.

He never got over his first turn to attention when the bugle called. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center--evacuees press against fence while older folk await their turn to join the transferees to War Relocation Center / Signal Corps photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lumber manufacture. Timber logs floating in pond at a western sawmill. These giants are awaiting their turn to be milled into lumber. Boise Payette Lumber Company, Boise, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

Willing blood donors await their turn to aid America's fighting men as the Red Cross blood donor mobile unit makes a visit to San Quentin. The men are waiting before the prison pharmacy in the San Quentin hospital. Credit: Library of Congress.

Snapped on the links Saturday afternoon while waiting their turn to play, at the Chevy Chase Club, Washington. Left to right: Rep. Herbert W. Taylor, N.J.; Secretary of Agriculture, Wm. N. Jardine, Rep. Albert H. Vestal of Indiana, the Republican Whip of. Credit: Library of Congress.

Turn to the right! Join the U.S. Navy, your first line of defense / Carey Print N.Y.. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The only way of proving it, however, will be to turn to our maps.

It was their turn to laugh now at the notion of his shaking Scrooge.

I doubt not but his friends will turn to us.

He fitted his wrench to the enginehead bolts and turned them down evenly, one turn to each nut, around and around the series.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Don't hesitate to turn to treatment staff for support. (references)

Whether and when to turn to a nursing home is the first and some say the most difficult decision. (references)

Research also indicates that some users might turn to other drugs to alleviate some of the negative effects of anabolic steroids. (references)

Business

As a result, these consumers tend to turn to the use of nutritional supplements to ward off and reduce the incidence of minor ailments instead of paying the $10 price for a single prescription. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

Poverty has led to widespread school truancy because many children in Romani ghettos cannot afford shoes or basic school supplies and instead turn to begging, prostitution, and petty crime on the streets. (references)

Economic History

Ecuador

Municipalities are beginning to turn to private sector concessions to expand water and sewage availability. (references)

Russia

With much of the new tax legislation now on the statute books, the focus will turn to enforcement and interpretation. (references)

Human Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Citizens continued to turn to these institutions to redress human rights violations after national institutions and domestic courts failed to provide an effective remedy. (references)

Haiti

Human rights organizations increasingly turn to issues that they have not addressed before, including prison conditions, the widespread lack of health facilities, and impunity for criminals. (references)

Russia

Complainants need not exhaust all appeals in domestic courts before they can turn to the European Court, but must exhaust "effective and ordinary" appeals, which usually include two appeals (first and cassation) in courts of ordinary jurisdiction and three (first, appeal, and cassation) in the commercial court system. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

During the year, the Jewish community and the Roma worked together as the Roma began to turn to the MAZSIHISZ for information and advice on the Holocaust and compensation issues. (references)

Italy

With limited income and job opportunities available, some Roma turn to begging or petty crime, which has reinforced negative social attitudes and had generated repressive countermeasures by police and some judicial authorities. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

Many Azeri firms simply cannot afford such loans and turn to private sources for finance. (references)

Travel

Honduras

After the formalities of courtesy have been taken care of, meetings generally turn to a more concrete discussion of business. (references)

Women

Djibouti

The few women who are educated increasingly turn to the regular courts to defend their interests. (references)

Worker Rights

Slovenia

Often the promised work does not provide enough money, so the women are encouraged to turn to prostitution. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "turn to": it's turn to come ♦ To turn to ♦ To turn to account ♦ to turn to advantage ♦ To turn to flight ♦ to turn to profit ♦ turn to account ♦ turn to advantage ♦ turn to bay ♦ turn to dust ♦ turn to good account ♦ turn to good purpose ♦ turn to one's disadvantage ♦ turn to the ♦ turn to the left ♦ turn to the right. Additional references.

Afrikaans

gebruik (custom, employ, habit, make, make use of, turn to account, use, way), benuttig (employ, make, make use of, turn to account, turn to good account, use, utilize), benut (employ, make, make use of, turn to account, turn to good account, use, utilize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نكب على العمل (buckle down to). (various references)

Basque

jiratu. (various references)

Bulgarian 

залавям се за работа (pitch in). (various references)

Chinese 

病急亂投醫 (turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill - try anything when in a desperate situation). (various references)

Czech

uchýlit se k (fall back on, have recourse to, resort to), dát se do toho (set to). (various references)

Danish

tilbringe (employ, make use of, turn to account, use), bruge (employ, make use of, turn to account, use), benytte (employ, make use of, turn to account, turn to good account, use, utilize). (various references)

Dutch

te baat nemen (make use of, turn to account, turn to good account, utilize), zijn voordeel doen met (turn to account, turn to good account), zýn voordeel doen met (turn to account, turn to good account), waarnemen (find, keep, make use of, mind, notice, observe, perceive, turn to good account, utilize), gebruiken (drink, eat, employ, feed, make use of, turn to account, use), gebruik maken van (turn to account, turn to good account), garen spinnen bij (turn to account, turn to good account), garen spinnen bý (turn to account, turn to good account), benutten (employ, make use of, turn to account, turn to good account, use, utilize), aanwenden (apply, employ, make use of, practice, turn to account, use). (various references)

Faeroese

nýta (apply, employ, make use of, practice, turn to account, use). (various references)

Finnish

turvautua (fall back upon, have recourse to, resort to), siirtyä puhumaan jostakin (proceed to), kääntyä jonkun puoleen (consult, turn to a person). (various references)

French

se pencher. (various references)

Frisian

brûke (apply, employ, make use of, practice, to use, turn to account, use), benutsje (make use of, turn to good account, utilize). (various references)

German

sich zuwenden (devote oneself to), sich wenden an (address oneself to, be directed at, consult, contact). (various references)

Greek 

στρέφομαι πρόσ. (various references)

Hungarian

nekifog (have a go at, to get busy, to go at it hammer a tongs, to set forth, to set on, to set to, to tackle), fordul valakihez (appeal to, have recourse to). (various references)

Icelandic

nota (employ, make use of, turn to account, use), brúka (employ, make use of, turn to account, use). (various references)

Indonesian

menjurus (direct to, heading for). (various references)

Italian

usare (be accustomed, be fashionable, be in fashion, be used, employ, make use of, need, practice, practise, require, to use, turn to account, use), impiegare (employ, exert, expend, make, make use of, occupy, spend, take, take on, turn to account, turn to good account, use, utilize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

役立てる (to make use of, to put to use, to turn to account), 出 (comingout, graduate, one's turn to appear on stage, outflow, rising), 左に折れる (to turn to the left), 左に曲がる (to turn to the left), 寄る辺 (one's resort, person to turn to or depend on, place to go). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひ� りにおれる (to turn to the left), ひ� りにまがる (to turn to the left), で (comingout, graduate, one's turn to appear on stage, outflow, rising), やく� てる (to make use of, to put to use, to turn to account), よるべ (one's resort, person to turn to or depend on, place to go). (various references)

Malay

menggunakan (employ, make use of, turn to account, use), gunakan (employ, make use of, turn to account, use). (various references)

Manx

goll da'n staartey. (various references)

Papiamen

uza (employ, make use of, turn to account, use), usa (employ, make use of, turn to account, use). (various references)

Pig Latin

urntay otay

Polish

używać. (various references)

Portuguese

utilizar (make use of, requisition, resort, turn to good account, use, utilize), dobrar � esquerda (take a left, turn to the left), dobrar � direita (take a right, turn to the right). (various references)

Romanian

folosi (affect, anticipate, apply, avail, benefit, boot, dispose, employ, impress, make use of, occupy, practise, put forth, seize, stand smb. in good stead, turn to account, use, utilize, wield). (various references)

Russian 

отчаянно защищаться (keep smb. at bay, stand at bay, turn to bay), принимать дурной оборот (take a turn to the worse), переходить к политике (turn to politics), использовать (apply with, employ, gain advantage, make use of, turn to account 1, use up, used of, uses, utilize), извлекать выгоду (trade on, turn to account 1). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potpuno se predati nečemu (turn to at smth.). (various references)

Sotho

chekele. (various references)

Spanish

empezar a trabajar (get to work), empezar a (set to, take to), comenzar (begin, come on, commence, dawn, enter on, inchoate, initiate, institute, kick off, launch, lead off, light, open, open up, start, start up, starting, take to, take up). (various references)

Swedish

ty sig till. (various references)

Tagalog

gamítin (employ, make use of, turn to account, use). (various references)

Turkish

uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, draw out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, rack, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, wiredraw), sığınmak (defect, fall back upon a thing, Harbor, harbour, nestle, refuge, take refuge in, take sanctuary, take shelter in, take to), koyulmak (address oneself to, approach, attack, begin, go, hop to it, launch out, set about, set oneself to do smth., set out, set to, settle down to, sit down, start, start in, start off, start out, tackle), gitmek (apply, betake oneself to, bugger off, depart, fare, give, go, go away, go together, head, head for, hop it, hop off, repair, resort, roll, run, steer for, step, strike out, take one's way, take to, to go, wend one's way, work in with), değişmek (alter, alternate, amend, change, chop about, chop round, convert, modify, mutate, shade, shift, switch, vary), danışmak (advise with, confer, consult, debate, deliberate, take one's advice), dönüştürmek (coke, convert, process into, reduce, resolve, transform, translate, transmute, transubstantiate, turn, turn into), dönüşmek (be transformed into, change, convert, expand, grow, pass, resolve, return to, shade, shade into, shade off, shade off into, transform, turn, turn into), başvurmak (appeal, apply, approach, call on, call upon, consult, fall back on, fall back upon, have recourse to, look to, make an application, put in, put in for, refer, resort, resort to), başlamak (begin, come on, commence, cut along, enter into, enter on, enter upon, fall into, fall to, get, get a move on, get going, get to, go, go off, inaugurate, introduce, kick off, knuckle down to, launch, launch out, launch out into, lay down, open, set about, set in, set out, set to, start, start in, start off, strike in, strike up), çevirmek (assemble, avert, bowl, change to, commute, convert, decline, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, revert, roll, roll over, screw, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, surround, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn over, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone). (various references)

Turkmen 

яьzlenmek (address, direct), яьz tutmak (appeal to, apply for). (various references)

Ukrainian

звернути собі до вигоди (turn to account), здобувати вигоду (turn to account). (various references)

Welsh

troi at. (various references)

Zulu

-sebenzisa (employ, make use of, turn to account, use). (various references)

incoho, incoho, incohare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: trout, tutor.

-2 letters: rout, runt, torn, tort, tour, tout, trot, turn, unto.

-3 letters: nor, not, nut, ort, our, out, rot, run, rut, ton, tor, tot, tun, tut, urn.

-4 letters: no, nu, on, or, to, un, ut.

+1 letter: outturn, turnout.

+2 letters: buttoner, nontruth, notturni, notturno, outburnt, outturns, printout, rebutton, trapunto, turncoat, turnouts, tutoring.

+3 letters: antitumor, astronaut, buttoners, construct, fortunate, nontruths, nutrition, outlearnt, outrating, outsprint, outthrown, pothunter, printouts, rebuttons, rotundity, strontium, thereunto, torturing, trapuntos, turnabout, turncoats, turnstone, untutored.

+4 letters: astronauts, attenuator, constructs, contexture, contribute, counteract, countertop, eructation, extenuator, fourteenth, frontcourt, institutor, instructor, lustration, maturation, natatorium, naturopath, nutritions, nutritious, obturating, obturation, orotundity, outrooting, outsprints, outstaring, outtrading, outwriting, outwritten, portentous, pothunters, punctuator, rebuttoned, refutation, reputation, rouletting, saturation, strontiums, tournament, tourniquet, truncation, turnabouts, turnstones, tutoyering, untogether, urtication.