| 单词 | to turn out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto turn out to turn out 1. transitive. To put, take, or pull out by a rotary movement (in quot. 1892, on a lathe); to roll out. Formerly also: †to bore or gouge out (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > put out eyes to turn outc1450 to scratch out?1527 to put forth1534 poach1608 gouge1785 gouge1800 deoculate1816 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Judith xiii. 10 She turnede out his bodi beheueded. c1450 St. Erasmus in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 202 Þe turmentours..turnyng oute his ien withe wymbles. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 416/2 They lefte hym not tyll they hadde cutte and tourned out his braynes and strowed them aboute vppon the Churche pauement. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 286 Extending frame and reversing back mitred, keyed and glued up; the front turned out for circular disc. 1954 Techn. Man. No. 5-5399-1 (U.S. Dept. Army) vi. 124 Then turn the screw out or counterclockwise, until the engine runs smoothly. 2003 Old-house Jrnl. Jan. 92/1 (advt.) X-out tm bites on to the head of the screw and turns the screw out. ΚΠ c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) l. 1213 In wonhope weore his disciples..Ac þou weore studefast..Ne miȝte þe no þing tornen out. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] outgoeOE to come outOE forthcomeOE to go outOE to go outOE ishc1330 to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375 proceedc1380 getc1390 exorta1400 issue?a1400 precedec1425 purgea1430 to come forthc1449 suea1450 ushc1475 to call one's way (also course)1488 to turn outa1500 void1558 redound1565 egress1578 outpacea1596 result1598 pursue1651 out1653 pop1770 to get out1835 progress1851 a1500 Warkworth's Chron. (1839) 18 A prest that turnyd oute at his messe and the sacrament in his handys, whanne Kynge Edwarde came with his swerde into the chirche. 1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. x. §4 If there be but one gap open..how ready are we to..turn out at it? 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 21 Turn out there you Country Put, says a Bully with a Sword two Yards long. b. To cause (a person) to go or come out. (a) transitive. To send away, drive out, or expel (a person) from a place, often someone's abode. Cf. sense 27a. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > be on the outside of [verb (transitive)] > put outdoors to put outa1350 to turn out1546 output1588 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific people from a place, position, or possession outshoveOE to do out of ——OE shovec1200 to put out of ——c1225 to cast out1297 void13.. usurpa1325 to put outa1350 outputa1382 outrayc1390 excludea1400 expulse?a1475 expel1490 to shut forth1513 to put forth1526 to turn out1546 depel?1548 disseisin1548 evict1548 exturb1603 debout1619 wincha1626 disseise1627 out-pusha1631 howster1642 oust1656 out1823 purge1825 the bum's rush1910 outplace1928 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. x. sig. Liiiv He turnde hir out at durs. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle iii. sig. G3v Open the doore, and turne me out those mangy companions. 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal ii. 17 If they heard us whisper, they'l turn us out. 1832 Examiner 418/1 If he ever turned out a tenant for voting against him. 1894 S. Baring-Gould Queen of Love I. viii. 86 ‘Turn him out!’ was shouted from the further side of the hall. 1993 H. Greenfeld Hidden Children iv. 56 They no longer wanted to keep the children, but they were afraid to turn them out. 2012 H. Phillips Epidemics v. 142 Some families, horrified by the stigma of having an HIV+ member in their midst.., turned them out or abandoned them. (b) transitive. To dismiss or eject (a person, a party, etc.) from office or employment. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge to put awaya1387 discharge1428 dismiss1477 to put out of wages1542 discard1589 to turn away1602 to put off1608 disemploy1619 to pay off1648 to pay off1651 to turn out1667 to turn off1676 quietus1688 strip1756 trundle1794 unshop1839 shopc1840 to lay off1841 sack1841 drop1845 to give (a person) the shoot1846 bag1848 swap1862 fire1879 to knock off1881 bounce1884 to give (a person) the pushc1886 to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888 bump1899 spear1911 to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911 terminate1920 tramp1941 shitcan1961 pink slip1966 dehire1970 resize1975 to give a person his jotters1990 1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. D3v Neither wil the Church euer bee in quiet vntil you be all turned out. 1667 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 41 The..Captain hath..turned out some of his said Company that have refused to compound for lesse than the King's pay. 1708 Constitutions Company Watermen & Lightermen xviii If any..of the Rulers or Auditors shall happen to dye, or be turned out for Corruption. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay ii. 22 I am very sorry he lost the election... It was the radical mining people that turned him out. 1918 Congress. Rec. 56 xi. 11434/1 The Civil Service Commission wants to turn out all of these men, who are doing splendid work, and make them stand a civil-service examination. 1981 Guardian Weekly 26 July 5/3 The slashing of the Conservative vote..must have reflected a large measure of tactical voting as Warrington Tories..came to see that they had a chance at last of turning out Labour. 2005 M. Lawson Enough is Enough (2006) xi. 122 That election-day headline..had encouraged the voters to turn out the Conservatives four years ago. 4. transitive. To drive or put out (animals) to pasture or into the open, or (pheasants, etc.) into a covert: cf. sense 27c. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture leasowc950 feed1382 pasturec1400 to put to grass1471 grassc1500 to turn out?1523 graze1564 impasture1614 put1620 depasture1713 run1767 to run out1851 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > drive into a covert to turn out1802 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxixv For and she be rydden vpon and set vp hote: or tourned out and take colde she woll cast her fole. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxv The cattel, which the townes men daily turned out into the pasture. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned ii. iv. 222 He hath now like Nebuchadnezzar, been turned out to grass. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Pheasant—Ring Lord Caernarvon..turned out several [ring pheasants] at his seat at Highclere. 1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 i. 64 The colts were turned out on the open commons. 1969 Field & Stream Aug. 153/1 As fast as they could get stock, officials and sportsmen began turning out pheasants in a grand release that still hasn't stopped. 2014 Western Horseman Mar. 34/1 Martin decided to turn out the gelding barefoot. 5. transitive. To alter the position of (the inside of a garment, a pocket, etc.) so as to bring it to the outside.In quot. 1608 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > invert [verb (transitive)] > turn inside out turn?c1475 evert1578 to turn outa1585 invert1598 flipe1788 a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) vi. 46 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 164 With laidlie lippis and lynning syd turnd out. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvi. 9 He..told me I had turnd the wrong side out . View more context for this quotation 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. 444 Upon turning the Pocket out, he found only a Thread Paper, a Housewife, and a Crown piece. 1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 148 When it rained he turned the furry side out..when it faired, he..reversed it. 1932 M. Major in J. F. Dobie Tone Bell Easy (1965) 168 He turned the woolly side out and the skinny side in. 2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand xlvi. 240 Pete turned out his pockets. 6. a. transitive. To clear (a receptacle, room, house, etc.) of its contents; to empty (a container), usually in order to examine or rearrange the contents. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty emptyOE emptOE avoida1382 to shake out1382 devoida1400 evacuec1400 void1506 toom?a1513 unburden1538 disgarboil1567 inanitea1598 unbowel1597 unfill1607 to turn out?1609 unteemc1635 evacuatea1652 vacuate1651 unempt1798 disglut1800 eviscerate1834 the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty > empty (contents) avoida1398 teemc1440 voida1475 empty1532 toom1535 empt1555 unload1603 to turn out?1609 dismaw1620 unvessel1633 to pack out1969 ?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World vii. 202 Downe lies hee in a sleepe, yee may turne the house out at the windowe, (if yee can) and neuer awake him. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xi. 148 The enraged marquis..turning her whole house out at window. 1887 E. F. Byrrne Heir without Heritage III. iii. 66 I will go to my room..and turn my drawers out. 1894 H. Caine Manxman 211 She overhauled the linen; turned out every room twice a week. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. iii. 19 Turning out his suit-case, he began to dress. 1995 V. Glendinning Electricity (1996) vii. 92 Mother and Aunt Susannah, being northern women, had set ideas about the way to ‘turn out’ a room, and they taught Jane and me their ways. b. transitive. To put (something) out of a house, room, or receptacle; to empty (contents) out by sloping or inverting the containing vessel. Formerly also: (U.S.) to pour out (tea) (obsolete). Also: (intransitive) to admit of being emptied out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > put out outdoc1300 to do out of ——a1325 to put outa1350 outset?1533 output1588 to turn out1654 1654 J. Cooper Art of Cookery 42 Filling the glasse with the jelly when it is warme, it being cold turne it out on the glasse plate. 1666 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 255 My hous is not yet burnt, but all I have turn'd out. 1714 M. Kettilby Coll. above 300 Receipts 75 Let the Cups you pour it into be dip'd in clean Water; for if they are dry, it will not turn out well. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvi. 414 The small quantity of fluid remaining..is to be turned out, by inclining the tube. 1864 S. Jex-Blake in M. G. Todd Life (1918) xiii. 170 They [in America] ask if they shall ‘turn out the tea’. 1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 151 190/1 I shall turn out all your furniture. 1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds xiv. 194 She [sc. a bear]..invariably went straight to the sink and turned out the contents of the garbage pail underneath. 2011 M. Swift & L. Thomas Primrose Bakery Bk. 87 Turn the dough out onto a large, well-floured surface. 7. a. To come or go out for a purpose. (a) intransitive. To come out from or leave one's house, quarters, etc., for a specific purpose.Perhaps originally an extended use of sense 3a. ΚΠ 1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest i. 2 Turn out, turn out all hands to Capstorm? 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals II. 285 Whenever Evening drew on he was very assiduous for her to turn out (as they phrase it) that is to go upon the Street-walking Account, picking up Fellows. 1763 C. Johnstone Reverie (new ed.) II. 9 To run into danger with delight, turning out to a man, at the first mention of the matter. 1811 Gen. Regulations & Orders Army 15 The Line turns out without arms whenever any part of the Royal Family..comes along the Front of the Camp. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 86 When the Friars came into a village,..the whole population would turn out to listen. 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 16 June 8/6 For retreat formations the battalion turns out in dress blouses with buttons shining. 2012 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 27 Sept. a12/3 Only three girls turned out for Castleford's girls' squad, one too few to field a formal team. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > bestir oneself > and go outside to turn out1793 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > brigandage or freebooting > be or act like brigand or freebooter [verb (intransitive)] freeboot1592 Tory1651 freebooter1659 buccaneer1787 filibuster1853 to turn out1862 1793 Earl of Dundonald Descr. Estate Culross 42 He had two sons..ready to turn out in the sea line. 1862 Western Post 24 Sept. 2/2 He was immediately told by the robber they ought to turn out. 1871 W. Phillips Labor Question 17 He becomes a railway conductor. If that doesn't suit him, he turns out, and becomes the agent of an insurance office. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxii What lay we're going upon and whether we're all greed in our mind to turn out. 1891 ‘L. Keith’ Halletts x She may have to turn out and be a governess. 1910 J. X. A. Cameron Spell of Bush 131 [The bush] had been his home; for even before he had ‘turned out’, four walls had never held Michael Moran for long. (c) intransitive. To abandon one's work as a protest; to go out on strike. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > strike strike1769 to turn out1795 to strike work, tools1803 stick1823 to come out1841 to go out1850 to down tools1855 to hit the bricks1931 1795 J. Oakes Diary 8 June in Oakes Diaries (1990) I. 313 Bricklayers & Labourers all turnd out for Advance of wages. 1801 Morning Post 8 July Thirty-eight bakers' boys, of Saltzburgh, lately turned out against their masters, and were for their insubordination conducted to the frontier. 1885 Manch. Examiner 23 June 5/1 It is expected that the whole of the operatives will turn out against the reduction. 1985 Financial Times 12 Feb. 10 The single largest picket was at Emley pit..where an estimated 350 demonstrators turned out. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)] > get up or rise arisec950 riseOE risec1175 uprisea1400 to dress upc1400 rouse1577 to get up1583 up1635 unroost1751 to turn out1801 to show a leg1818 to roll out1884 to hit the deck1918 1801 J. J. Moore Brit. Mariner's Vocab. (at cited word) To turn out, is to get up or out of bed. 1805 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) I. 154 The next morning on turning out, I had the first glimpse of old England. 1875 F. J. Gillen Diary 6 May in R. S. Gillen F. J. Gillen's First Diary (1995) 54 Turned out about 8, found all hands had had Breakfast. b. transitive. To fetch or summon out, to muster (a body of people, such as a military unit or a team).Now uncommon in U.S. usage. ΚΠ 1727 H. Bland Treat. Mil. Discipline (ed. 2) xii. 175 The Serjeant is to turn out the Guard immediately, drawing up the Men in good Order with shoulder'd Arms. 1832 A. M. Hall Buccaneer III. v. 94 Below there!—turn out the guard, and encircle the ruins! 1903 R. B. Smith in 19th Cent. Mar. 436 One raven..managed more than once to ‘turn out’ the guard, who thought they were summoned by the sentinel. 1996 Lacrosse Talk Oct. 22/1 Two thirds of clubs are one team clubs, not always certain to turn out a full squad each week. 2018 Alpine Observer (Victoria, Austral.) 9 May 1/4 This will prevent any 000 calls and turning out the fire brigade unnecessarily. 8. a. intransitive. Of a part of the body: to bend or be directed outwards. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have outward direction to turn out1676 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vii. x. 498 The Ancle-bone is apt to turn out on either side, by..Relaxation of the Tendons. 1859 I. Warren Househ. Physician 481 The conjunctiva..next becomes intensely scarlet, and so much swelled, at times, that the lids turn out. 2000 Callaloo 23 1184 Leroy's toes turned out just a bit and he leaned slightly back, his shoulders held straight, his face and eyes all over the place. b. transitive. To direct or cause (a part of the body) to point outwards. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > direct in specific directions [verb (transitive)] > direct or turn outwards extrovert1671 to turn out?1697 ?1697 J. Lewis Mem. Duke of Glocester (1789) 12 Turning out his toes. 1813 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (1837) II. 138 The lips are thick without being turned out. 1892 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 5 Nov. 270/3 Do not reject a nag, though he may turn out his toes a little. 1990 Big Spring (Texas) Herald 24 June (Rodeo Time Suppl.) 12 Only by spurring effectively, remaining in control, turning out his toes and exposing himself to the full power of the horse will a rider score respectably. 9. a. intransitive. With adverb, adverbial phrase, or †as. To come about in the end in a particular way; to result, eventuate; to come out (well, badly, etc.). Formerly also †without complement (cf. to turn up at Phrasal verbs 1) (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > result [verb (intransitive)] > turn out goOE farec1230 to come to proofc1330 shape1338 afarec1380 achievea1393 falla1398 sort1477 succeed1541 lucka1547 to fall out1556 redound1586 to come off1590 light1612 takea1625 result1626 issue1665 to turn out1731 eventuate1787 to roll out1801 to come away1823 to work out1839 pan1865 1731 S. Croxall tr. Æsop Fables (ed. 3) lx. 108 Reynard said, let Things turn out ever so bad, he did not care, for he had a thousand Tricks for them yet. 1735 H. Walpole Let. 19 Oct. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 264 As things have fortunately turn'd out. 1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions III. 85 Who knows what may turn out? 1830 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) I. ix. 353 Our expedition up Vesuvius turned out very well. 1891 Law Times 90 460/2 A speculator..whose transactions..had turned out disastrously to himself. 1994 Amer. Spectator Aug. 14/3 They frivol with the deepest human passions and then are astounded when things turn out badly. 2013 L. Miller Parallel iii. 56 ‘What a great picture!’.. ‘Since it turned out so well,..I..am having it matted and framed.’ b. intransitive. With complement. To come to be (and be found or known to be); to become ultimately. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] > pass into state, become yworthOE worthOE goOE becomec1175 come?a1200 waxc1220 charea1225 aworthc1275 makea1300 fallc1300 breedc1325 grow1340 strikea1375 yern1377 entera1382 turna1400 smitec1400 raxa1500 resolvea1500 to get into ——?1510 waxen1540 get1558 prove1560 proceed1578 befall1592 drop1654 evade1677 emerge1699 to turn out1740 to gain into1756 permute1864 slip1864 1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 28 When Returns in Ship Building..Naval Stores, &c. turn out well at Home, Silver and Exchange here suffer a small Fall. 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 98 She has turned out a very undutiful Child. 1769 Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 13 May (1892) III. 70 The day has turned out better then I expected it. 1883 W. E. Norris No New Thing vii What a pretty girl Nellie..has turned out! 1940 K. Roberts Oliver Wiswell lix. 524 If you send Nathan to an English school, he'll in all likelihood turn out a snob, a toady or a rake. 1999 J. Arnott Long Firm i. 24 Still, it's a shame my only son turned out a gonnif. c. intransitive. To be ultimately found or known to be, to prove to be (without implication of becoming). Usually followed by infinitive; also with complement (cf. sense 9b). Also with non-referential it as subject and followed by a that-clause, often (colloquial) with ellipsis of it: e.g. Turns out I wasn't the only one. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (intransitive)] > be proved to be provec1300 verifya1387 approve1587 improve1612 bear1710 to turn up1756 to turn out1780 wash1849 1780 J. Williams Let. 16 Nov. in B. Franklin Papers (1998) XXXIV. 9 The method in which they have measured the Ship is different from what I expected..but I shall not object if it turns out that the King freights in that manner. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ ii. §1 We have that time turning out, upon examination, to be in all the same. 1818 Morning Chron. 12 May If it shall turn out that the rates which the Companies state to have been in existence for nearly a hundred years are not sufficient to remunerate them for their service of water to the Public. 1853 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay I. 207 These propositions—not..seeming to be true and turning out false, but..wearing an air of falsehood and turning out true. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxi That he should turn out to be the son of my old schoolfellow. 1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo App. i. 331 His photograph..unfortunately turned out a failure. 1968 A. Young in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 147 Turns out he was half-smashed and half-drunk because he'd smoked some dope when he got up that morning. 1995 Guardian 29 July (Outlook section) 23/8 Davies, a high-flying barrister and an Islington Person to boot, turns out to have had a shady past as a poll-tax refusnik. 2017 E. Batuman Idiot i. 63 It turned out that..what they needed was people to teach high school equivalency math. 10. transitive. To put (land) out of cultivation. Now U.S. historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivate or till [verb (transitive)] > throw out of cultivation to turn out1801 1801 Trans. Dublin Soc. 1800 2 76 Three successive crops of oats, or perhaps one of barley and two of oats, and then turning out the land to rest, as it is called, is the method almost universally pursued. 1887 G. Vasey Grasses of South (U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 3) 55 Almost no remedies have been attempted in the past, except throwing brush in the washes and turning out the land to common when it has so far lost its soil and become filled with gullies as to be no longer profitable for cultivation. 1989 J. S. Otto Southern Frontiers, 1607–1860 ii. 22 When old fields no longer bore grains, Chesapeake planters turned out the land to long-term fallow. 11. transitive. Usually with modifying adverb. To provide with clothes, trappings, etc., of a specified quality; to equip (well, nicely, etc.). Chiefly in passive. ΚΠ 1812 [implied in: P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 46 Their ‘turns-out’ of horses and harness are beggarly. (at turn-out n. 7a)]. 1833 [implied in: T. Hook Snowdon xii, in Love & Pride III. 228 The best turned-out equipage that rattled through its streets. (at turned-out adj. at turned adj. Compounds)]. 1876 Rep. Comm. Certain Questions Yeomanry Cavalry (House of Commons) 165/2 Are most of them able to equip their horses and turn them out well themselves?—They turn them out very well themselves. Our officers give them encouragement to do so by offering prizes. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xli. 354 At either of these places the visitor may be sure of being turned out ‘one of the best-dressed men in London’. 2013 S. Grafton W is for Wasted 401 He was nicely turned out; fresh shirt, a sport coat only slightly threadbare along the cuffs. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > find in a book or paper looklOE to look out?1496 to turn to ——1568 to look upa1632 to turn up1710 to turn out1834 1834 Tracts for Times No. 29. 8 To turn out for him the texts he had referred to. 1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages II. 329 Turning out the word..in the indices of..chroniclers. 13. transitive. Originally: to stop the flow of (gas) by turning a tap. Subsequently: to turn off (a heater, lamp, etc.), to put out, switch off (a light). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] > quench (light) aquenchc1000 quenchOE to do outa1425 extinct1483 to put outa1500 out-quencha1522 dout1526 pop1530 extinguish1551 to put forth1598 snuff1688 douse1753 douse1780 smoor1808 to turn out1844 outen1877 to turn off1892 to black out1913 1844 Mrs. A. Cochrane Flights of Fancy 10 There's aunty bawling ‘Come to bed, And mind you turn the gas out right, And don't be sitting up all night.’ 1884 Punch 27 Dec. 310/2 Then the gas was turned out. 1905 E. Glyn Vicissitudes Evangeline 237 She..was turning out the light. 2002 Herald (Glasgow) 10 Aug. (Mag.) 14/3 From my hiding place I watched Grannie's little black shoon tottering around the room as she turned out a gas fire here, a light there. 2015 L. Williamson Art of being Normal (2016) xxii. 153 ‘Enjoy!’ Becky sing-songs as she slams the door shut and turns out the light. 14. transitive. To complete and send off (a piece of work); to dispose of (something) as a finished product; to produce (work), typically with rapidity, facility, or skill; = to turn off 10 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > with ease, speed, or success, or in large quantities whip1611 to work off1653 to hit off1700 dispatchc1710 to throw off1724 to run off1759 to turn off1825 to turn out1847 to run out1872 to churn out1912 proliferate1912 slug1925 whomp1955 gurgitate1963 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. vi. 86 Books were books in those days, not batches, by the baker's dozen, turned out every morning. 1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. xv. 219 No place..could..turn out more splendid ships' figure-heads. 1913 E. H. D. Sewell in Daily Graphic 26 Mar. 14/2 La Touche..is one of the best half-backs Sedbergh has ever turned out. 2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Sept. d8/2 Cooks turn out the restaurant's nightly quota of..pappardelle and stringozzi entirely by hand. < as lemmas |
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