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71turn out — 1) PHR V LINK If something turns out a particular way, it happens in that way or has the result or degree of success indicated. [V P prep] If I had known my life was going to turn out like this, I would have let them kill me... [V P n] Sometimes… …
72turn over — 1) PHR V ERG If you turn something over, or if it turns over, it is moved so that the top part is now facing downwards. [V n P] Liz picked up the blue envelope and turned it over curiously... [V n P] I turned him over on his back... [V P n ( …
73switch — n. & v. n. 1 a device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit. 2 a a transfer, change over, or deviation. b an exchange. 3 a slender flexible shoot cut from a tree. 4 a light tapering rod. 5 US a device at the junction of… …
74switch over — verb change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence • Syn: ↑switch, ↑exchange • Derivationally related forms: ↑exchange (for: ↑exchange), ↑switch (for: ↑ …
75turn off — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you turn off the road or path you are going along, you start going along a different road or path which leads away from it. [V P n (not pron)] The truck turned off the main road along the gravelly track which led to the farm …
76turn aside — Synonyms and related words: alter, ameliorate, anticipate, avert, avoid, bar, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, bear off, beat off, bend, blench, blink, block, blunt, bottom out, branch off, break, change, change the bearing, check,… …
77turn up — phrasal verb Word forms turn up : present tense I/you/we/they turn up he/she/it turns up present participle turning up past tense turned up past participle turned up 1) [transitive] to increase the amount of sound, heat, or light produced by a… …
78switch — 01. We [switched] our bank accounts to a credit union because we felt they give better service. 02. My wife [switched] from coffee to herb tea because it doesn t keep her awake at night. 03. I originally started studying to be an elementary… …
79switch — [16] Switch originally denoted a ‘thin flexible twig’; it may have been borrowed from 493 sympathy Middle Dutch swijch ‘bough, twig’. From the noun was derived the verb switch. This originally meant ‘beat with a switch’, but in the early 19th… …
80turn out — phrasal verb Word forms turn out : present tense I/you/we/they turn out he/she/it turns out present participle turning out past tense turned out past participle turned out 1) a) [intransitive] to develop in a particular way, or to have a… …
