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单词 to turn out
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to 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).
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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.
2. transitive. Perhaps: to change (a person) from his or her normal condition, to ‘put out’; or (perhaps) to divert (a person) from his or her course. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
a. intransitive. To turn aside and go out; to go away, depart, get out (usually under compulsion). Obsolete.
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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.
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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. 86Turn 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
(b) intransitive. To leave one's home or employment and adopt a different (esp. an outside) occupation; (Australian slang) to become a bushranger. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
(d) intransitive. colloquial. To get out of bed. Cf. to turn off 3a at Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
12. transitive. To refer to, look up; = to turn up 16a at Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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