英语词汇“turn someone's head”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A cold that affects parts of the sufferer's head, such as the eyes or nasal passages

The accidental contact of a computer head with the surface of a hard disk, damaging the data stored on it

A display, usu visual, mounted inside the cockpit to supplement the head-up display

A wrestling hold made by putting one's arm round one's opponent's head and tightening the grip by interlocking the fingers of both hands

(usu in pl) an audio receiver worn in pairs over the ears, esp for listening to a radio, MP3 player, etc

A palm-leaf hair ornament worn by some black S African men as a symbol of manhood

A boost or advantage intended to overcome a disadvantage or give a better chance of success

Formerly a straight piece of furniture placed at the head of a forme, between the chase and the type

The presentation of data on the windscreen of an aircraft or car, etc enabling the pilot or driver to see the information without looking down at the instrument panel (abbrev HUD)

(of the ball in a rugby scrum, or the scrum itself) won by the team not putting the ball in

One must, or will, accept responsibility for any unpleasant or undesirable consequences of one's actions

turn someone's head see under turn

turn /tûrn/

intransitive verb

To revolve
To rotate, to spin, whirl
To move round
To hinge
To depend
To issue
To change or reverse direction or tendency
To return
To deviate
To direct oneself, face (with to or towards)
To shape one's course
To take oneself
To direct one's attention
To change sides, religion or mode of life
To be fickle
To change
To be transformed or converted (often with into)
To become
To result, prove or lead in the issue
To be shaped on the lathe
To become sour
To change colour
To become giddy
To be nauseated
To bend back, become turned
To tack, beat to windward (nautical)

transitive verb

To rotate
To move round
To change the direction of
To deflect
To bend
To bend back the edge of
To reverse
To pass round or beyond
To perform by turning
To wind
To set outside-in, or remake in that form
To set upside down
To direct
To point
To apply
To send, drive, set
To pour or tumble out
To employ in circulation, pass through one's hands
To translate
To change
To make (milk, cream, etc) sour
To nauseate
To make giddy
To infatuate
To transfer, hand over
To convert, make
To make the subject of (with to or into)
To render
To put by turning
To return, give back
To form in a lathe
To shape
To round off, fashion
To pass, become (a certain age, hour, etc)
To cause or persuade (an enemy agent) to work for one's own side

noun

Act, occasion or place of turning
New direction or tendency
A twist
A winding
A complete revolution
A bend
A single traversing of a beat or course
A short walk (or ride or drive)
A fit of illness or emotion, esp an emotional shock, jar or feeling of faintness
An embellishment in which the principal note is preceded by that next above and followed by that next below (or vice versa in the inverted turn), the whole ending (and sometimes beginning) with the principal note (music)
Turning point
A culmination
A time or moment of change
The halfway point on an eighteen-hole golf course, at which the players turn to begin the return nine holes
A crisis
A spell
A recurring opportunity or spell in rotation or alternation
Rotation
A trick
A performer's act or the performer
A shift
A bout
Fashion
Manner
Cast of mind
Aptitude
Bent
Occasion, exigency
A vicissitude
A characteristic quality or effect
Act of kindness or malice
An inverted type serving for a temporarily missing letter
A complete financial transaction, covering the buying and selling of a commodity, etc
The difference between the bid and offer price of shares (stock exchange)
(also turn card) the fourth community card dealt in some forms of poker

ORIGIN: OE turnian, tyrnan, and perh partly OFr torner (Fr tourner); all from L tornāre to turn in a lathe, from tornus a turner's wheel, from Gr tornos lathe, compasses

turned adjective

Fashioned
Wrought in a lathe
Beyond the age (now usu without of)
Reversed
Outside-in
(esp of printing type) upside down
Soured

turnˈer noun

Someone or something that turns
A person who uses a lathe
A member of a gymnastic club (US, from German)

turnˈery noun

The art of turning in a lathe
Turner's work
A turner's shop

turnˈing noun

Rotation
Reversal
A bend
The act of making a turn
A winding
Deviation
A place where a road strikes off
A shaping, esp the art of shaping wood, metal, etc, into forms having a curved (generally circular or oval) transverse section, and also of engraving figures composed of curved lines upon a smooth surface, by means of a turning lathe
(in pl) the shavings from the lathe
In pottery, the shaping of a vase, etc
Conversion, transformation

turnˈabout or turnˈaround noun

A turning to face the opposite direction
A reversal in opinion, policy, course of action, etc

turnˈagain noun (archaic)

A refrain

turnaround see turnabout above and turnround below.

turnˈback noun

A folded-back part
A person who retreats from or abandons an enterprise

turnˈ-back adjective

(able to be) folded back

turnˈbroach noun

A turnspit

turnˈbuckle noun

A coupling with screw-threads for adjusting tension

turnˈcoat noun

A renegade to one's principles or party

turnˈcock noun

A valve which by turning regulates waterflow
An official who turns off and on the water for the mains, etc

turnˈ-down adjective

Folded down

noun

A turn-down part
A turn-down collar
A turning down, rejection

turn-in see turn in below.

turning circle noun

The smallest possible circle in which a vehicle can turn round

turning lathe noun

turning point noun

The point at which anything turns in its course
A maximum or minimum point on a graph
A critical point

turnˈing-saw noun

A sweep-saw, a thin-bladed saw held taut in a frame, used for cutting in curves

turnˈkey noun

An under-jailer
A turncock
(a contract for) a job in which the contractor is to complete the entire operation, leaving the building, plant, etc ready for use (also adjective)

adjective (computing)

Designed and ready for immediate use by the purchaser, as in turnkey system or package (computing) a computer system complete with hardware and software, usu designed, installed, tested and maintained by the supplier and ready for immediate use by the purchaser

turnˈoff or turnˈ-off noun

A smaller road leading from a main one
See also turn off below

turn-on see turn on below.

turnˈout noun

A muster or assembly
The number of people attending a meeting or voting in an election
A coming on duty
A call to come on duty
A getting out of bed
A place in a road where a vehicle can be turned round (N American)
A siding, passing place, or turning place (archaic)
A movable tapered rail for changing to another track
A carriage and its horses, a team
Output
Get-up, outfit (of clothes)
A display (of goods, equipment, etc)
A strike (archaic)
A striker (archaic)

turnˈover noun

A turning over
A transference
A part folded over
A newspaper article begun on the front page and continued overleaf
A small pie made by folding over the crust
A small shawl (archaic)
An apprentice transferred to a new employer to complete the apprenticeship (dialect)
The total amount of money changing hands in a business
The number of employees starting or finishing employment at a particular place of work over a given period
The money value of total sales over a period
(in sports such as rugby and American football) loss of possession of the ball by a team, due to error or breach of a rule

adjective

Folded over, or made to fold over

turnover tax noun

A tax paid every time goods change hands during manufacture and marketing

turnˈ-penny noun (archaic)

Someone who is eager for profit

turnˈpike noun

A spiked barrier (historical)
A turnstile (obsolete)
A tollgate or road with a tollgate (historical)
A motorway on which tolls are paid (US)
A spiral stair (also turnpike stair; Scot)

turnpike man noun (historical)

A tollgate keeper

turnpike road noun

A road on which there are or were tollgates
A main road

turnˈround or turnˈaround noun

A turning round
The whole process of a ship, aircraft, etc docking or landing, unloading, taking on cargo, passengers or both, and setting off again
Generally, the whole process of dealing with something and passing it on to the next stage
A complete reversal of direction

turnˈ-screw noun (archaic)

A screwdriver

turnˈskin noun (archaic)

A werewolf

turnˈspit noun

A person who turns a spit
A long-bodied, short-legged dog employed to drive a wheel by which roasting-spits were turned
A spit, roasting jack

turnˈstile noun

A revolving frame that allows one person to pass at a time

turnˈstone noun

A bird (genus Arenaria), related to the plover and sandpiper, that turns over pebbles on the beach in search of food

turnˈtable noun

A rotating table, platform, disc or pair of rings, one rotating within another, used for turning a locomotive, carrying a record on a record player, cementing a microscope slide, turning a camera, etc

turntable ladder noun

A rotatable ladder mounted on a fire engine

turnˈtablist noun

A performer who uses the turntable of a record player to create innovative sounds

turnˈ-up (or /tûrn-upˈ/) noun

A disturbance
A thing or part that is turned up, esp the cuff at the bottom of a trouser-leg
An unexpected or fortuitous result or occurrence
A piece of good luck

adjective

Turned up

a good (or bad) turn

A helpful service (or a disservice)

at every turn

Everywhere
Incessantly

by turns

One after another
At intervals

in one's turn

When it is one's occasion, opportunity, duty, etc

in turn

One after another, in succession

not turn a hair

To be quite undisturbed or unaffected

on the turn

At the turning point, changing
On the point of turning sour

serve its or one's turn

To answer the purpose
To do well enough

speak or talk out of turn

To say something indiscreet or tactless

take a turn

To go for a stroll
To have a go (informal)

(take) a turn for the better (or worse)

(to make) an improvement (or a deterioration)

take one's turn or take turns

To participate in rotation

to a turn

Exactly, perfectly (as if of the spit)

turn about

To face round to the opposite direction
To spin, rotate

turn about or turn and turn about

Alternately
In rotation

turn adrift

To unmoor and let float away
To cast off

turn again

To turn back
To revert

turn against

To use to the injury of
To render hostile to
To rebel against

turn an enemy's flank, line or position

To manoeuvre so as to attack in the rear
To outwit

turn an honest penny see under penny

turn around see turn round below.

turn aside

To avert
To deviate
To avert the face

turn away

To dismiss from service, to discharge
To avert, to turn or look in another direction
To deviate, to depart
To refuse admittance to
To reject, send away

turn back

To cause to retreat
To return
To fold back

turn colour

To change colour

turn down

To bend, double, or fold down
To invert
To lower (a light, volume on a radio, etc)
To reject

turn forth

To expel

turn in

To bend inward
To enter
To register (a score)
To surrender, hand over voluntarily (turnˈ-in noun)
To go to bed (informal)

turn in on oneself

To become introverted

turn into

To become by a process of change

turn it up or in

Stop (saying) it (imperative; informal)

turn King's or Queen's evidence see under evident

turn loose

To set at liberty

turn of events

Course or direction of events

turn off

To deviate
To dismiss
To divert
To complete, achieve by labour
To shut or switch off
To make (someone) lose interest or enthusiasm, to bore, be disliked by or distasteful to (turnˈ-off noun; slang)
To give in marriage (archaic)
To hang (obs sl)

turn of speed

A burst of speed

turn of the century or year

The period of the end of one century or year and the beginning of the next

turn on

To set running (eg the flow of water)
To set in operation by switching on (also figurative)
To depend on
To turn towards and attack (physically or verbally)
To give (a person) a sense of heightened awareness and vitality, as do hallucinogenic drugs (slang)
To rouse the interest of, excite, esp sexually (turnˈ-on noun; slang)

turn one's back on

To abandon or reject

turn one's hand to

To apply oneself to

turn out

To bend outwards
To drive out, to expel
To remove the contents of
To dress, groom, take care of the appearance of
To put (cattle, etc) to pasture
To produce and put forth
To prove in the result
To muster
To go on strike
To switch off (a light)
To get out of bed (informal)
To go out of doors (informal)

turn over

To roll over
To set the other way up
To change sides
To hand over, pass on
To change the function of
To handle or do business to the amount of
To examine by turning the pages
To ponder
To rob (slang)
To start up (an engine)

turn round or around

Of a ship, aircraft, etc, to arrive, unload, reload and leave again
To reverse the course or direction of
To reverse the fortunes of (figurative)

turn tail see under tail¹

turn someone round one's little finger same as twist someone round one's little finger (see under finger).

turn someone's head or brain

To make someone giddy
To infatuate with success

turn the other cheek

To accept harm, violence, etc without defending oneself

turn the scale

To decide, determine

turn the stomach

To nauseate

turn the tables see under table

turn to

To have recourse to
To point to
To result in
To change or be changed into
To set to work

turn turtle see under turtle¹

turn up

To point upwards
To fold upwards
To come or bring to light
To arrive or appear (by chance)
To set face up
To invert
To grub up
To disturb
To strengthen or increase (eg the level of light, radio volume, etc)
To refer to, look up
To disgust (informal)

turn-up for the book or books

A totally unexpected (usu pleasant) occurrence

turn upon

To cast back upon, retort
To hinge on

head /hed/

turn /tûrn/