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▪ I. ˈupturn, n.
[up- 2.]
1. a. An upturned or upthrown part.
1868Kinglake Crimea IV. v. 90 A little upturn of the soil with a few Turks standing behind it.
b. A portion of the material of a garment turned up, e.g. at the end of a leg. rare.
1923Daily Mail 11 Aug. 1 (Advt.), Shorts have good upturns for lengthening. 1926Minister's Rep. of Fashion for Gentlemen Feb. 8/2 Trousers for wear with morning coats and dressy lounges are, of course, finished with plain bottoms, but for general wear the permanent up⁓turn still holds the field.
2. fig. = upheaval 2.
1864Gd. Words 231/1 The upturns and the overthrows of war. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 239 That idea of world-destruction, of that total upturn and Titanic revolution in the universe. 188319th Cent. May 796 There has been no greater revolution and upturn of all preconceived notions.
3. An improvement or upward turn, esp. in economic conditions; a rise in rate or value.
1930Daily Express 6 Sept. 2/6 The turnover..remained light, the upturn reflecting an extreme scarcity of sellers rather than any considerable number of buyers. 1932Sun (Baltimore) 5 Nov. 14/7 Helping to hoist wheat prices were upturns in securities and cotton. 1940[see down-turn n.] 1944[see split-up s.v. split-]. 1958Spectator 13 June 783/2 There will be no quick upturn in the economy. 1971Ld. Robbins Against Inflation (1979) x. 51 Certainly I think that the measures which the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Government have taken could produce..some upturn, provided that confidence is restored. 1981Daily Tel. 9 July 1/6 It is less sanguine about an imminent upturn in the economy.
4. Linguistics. A rise in pitch.
1964[see down-turn, downturn n.]. 1967D. Steible Conc. Handbk. Linguistics 132 Upturn, a term designating a rise in pitch, most noticeable as the terminal rise on the last syllable of an interrogative construction.
▪ II. upˈturn, v.
[up- 4. Cf. turn v. 81.]
†1. trans. To overthrow, subvert, or cause to fall.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxvii. 13, I am put and vpturnyd [L. eversus sum], þat i had fallyn: and þe lord resayued me. a1400Wycliffite Bible Titus i. 11 Ther ben manye..the whiche subuerten [v.r. vpturnen; L. subvertunt] alle housis.
2. To turn, throw, or tear up; to cast or turn over.
1567Drant Horace, Ep. xiv. E v, The countrye clownes when they see me vnfitte Vpturning cloddes,..theill stande, and lawghe at it. 1667Milton P.L. x. 700 Boreas and Cæcias..rend the Woods and Seas upturn. 1725Pope Odyss. VIII. 218 Fierce from his arm th' enormous load he flings;..Down rushing, it up-turns a hill of ground. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 156 Th' approaching squall..Upturns the whitening suface of the deep. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 74 Come then, the soil Of earth..Let straight upturn stout bullocks. 1881Fortn. Rev. Feb. 209 He..then with a backward heave upturns the whole.
†3. To turn upside down. Obs.—1
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 3 Where Driver, hight Arctophylax, doth his drie waine up-turn [L. resupinat].
4. To direct or cast (the eye, face, etc.) upwards.
1667Milton P.L. x. 279 The grim Feature..upturn'd His Nostril wide into the murkie Air. 1744Thomson Winter 131 With broaden'd Nostrils to the Sky upturn'd, The conscious Heifer snuffs the stormy Gale. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. (1791) II. 33 Vallisner sits, up-turns her tearful eyes. 1828Atherstone Fall of Nineveh I. 32 With brazen throats upturned,..ten thousand [trumpets] spake again. 1838Mrs. Browning To Bettine i, Upturning worship and delight With such a loving duty To his grand face, as women will.
5. intr. To turn or move up or upwards.
1805Wordsw. Prelude iv. 448 Up-turning, then, along an open field, We reached a cottage. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. li, Laid on thy lap, his eyes to thee upturn. |