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Definition of Turn out

1. Verb. Be shown or be found to be. "She turned up HIV positive"

2. Verb. Prove to be in the result or end. "It turns out that he was right"

3. Verb. Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery. "This factory turns out saws"

4. Verb. Result or end. "How will the game turn out?"

5. Verb. Come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons. "How many people turned out that evening?"

6. Verb. Bring forth,. "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"

7. Verb. Put out or expel from a place. "The unruly student was excluded from the game"

8. Verb. Come and gather for a public event. "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York"

9. Verb. Outfit or equip, as with accessories. "The actors were turned out lavishly"

10. Verb. Turn outward. "Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

11. Verb. Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch. "Turn out the lights"

12. Verb. Get up and out of bed. "Sam and Sue turn out"; "He uprose at night"

Definition of Turn out

1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To result; end up. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To attend; show up. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially ''(as) it turns out'' ¹

5. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To produce; make. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To leave a road. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turn Out

turn loose turn of events turn of logs turn of phrase turn of the century turn of the year turn off turn on a dime turn on its head turn on one's heel

turn one's back turn one's nose up turn one's stomach turn out (current term) turn over turn over a new leaf turn round turn signal turn someone's crank turn someone's head

turn tail turn the air blue turn the corner turn the frown upside down turn the other cheek turn the page turn the table turn the tables

Literary usage of Turn out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"Yes, I replied, if passion, which has already been shown to be different from desire, turn out also to be different from reason. But that is easily proved ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"turn out tho Hide screws, and romove the Trigger and Bolt. 7th. ... turn out the srn-w and remove the Trigger.. Hth. turn out the Tumbler ..."

3. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"It was a fortunate circumstance that Captain Phillips was along with his "turn out," as he calls a top-buggy that Captain Cook brought here in ..."

4. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"Come ! turn out!' And then he left. I could not understand this extraordinary procedure; BO I presently gave up trying to, and dozed off to sleep. ..."

5. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"To speak and at the same time listen to yourself cannot turn out well. If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to ..."

6. A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847 by Thomas Ford, James Shields (1854)
"... and reason for such an order—His proceedings under it—The militia refuse to turn out—Inefficiency of well-disposed moderate men in such times—A few bold ..."

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