turning

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A turn or deviation from a straight course.

   “Take the second turning on the left.”

2. isim At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
3. isim The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
4. isim The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).

   “Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.”

5. isim One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.

   “Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president.”

6. isim Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.

   “The turnings get into your trouser turnups!”

7. fiil present participle and gerund of turn

   “The Earth is turning about its axis as we speak.”