turn off

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To dismiss; to fire.

   “[H]e came to this country in the service of an English gentleman, whom he was obliged to quit through the malice of the valet de chambre, who taking advantage of the young man's being overtaken with liquor on the last St.Andrew's day, turned him off, on the pretext of his being an habitual drunkard.”

2. fiil To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).

   “Turn off the machine and unplug it when you leave.”

3. fiil To become deactivated; to become powered down.

   “My computer turned off!”

4. fiil To rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas.

   “Remember to turn the tap off once you've finished so you don't waste water.”

5. fiil To repulse, disgust, or discourage (someone).

   “Cigarette smoking really turns me off.”

6. fiil To leave a road; to exit.

   “Turn off at the next exit so we can have lunch.”

7. fiil To avert.

   “"Pardon my clumsiness," he said to the lady. "I am, unfortunately, quite blind. But," he added, with a smile, to turn off the mishap, "even a blind man must have a house."”

8. fiil To turn out; to produce.

   “According to D. A. Wells, one boy and a machine can turn off 9,000 pair of sleeve buttons in a day.”

9. fiil To execute by hanging.

   “The fell had not only put its cap on, it was drawn down over its white face as that other white cap, still more terrible to look upon, covers the features of the poor wretch about to be "turned off" on the gallows.”