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单词 turn the tables
释义

table /tāˈbl/

noun
  1. An article of furniture consisting of a flat top on legs, a pillar or trestles, for use at meals, work, play, for holding things, etc (often in combination, as in worktable, gaming-table, etc)
  2. A flat surface, such as a plateau
  3. A slab or board
  4. A layer
  5. A compact scheme of numerical information, words, facts, etc, usu in columns
  6. (in pl) a collection of these for reference
  7. A syllabus or index
  8. A condensed statement
  9. A slab with or for an inscription
  10. A slab inscribed with laws
  11. (in pl) a code of law (eg the Twelve Tables of ancient Rome)
  12. A writing tablet (esp in the obsolete phrase a pair of tables)
  13. Supply of food, entertainment
  14. The company at a table
  15. The soundboard of a violin, guitar or similar instrument
  16. A string-course (architecture)
  17. A panel
  18. A board for painting on
  19. A picture
  20. A broad flat surface on a cut gem
  21. A tabular crystal
  22. A board for a game, eg chess
  23. Each half of a folding board
  24. (in pl) a backgammon board, or the game itself (obsolete)
  25. A quadrangular space on the palm of the hand (Shakespeare)
  26. A flat gravestone supported on pillars
  27. A board or committee
  28. A dispensing of the communion
  29. A projecting part of a scarfed joint
adjective

Of, for, like or relating to a table or meals

transitive verb
  1. To put forward (a bill, order, proposal, etc) for discussion in parliament or some formal meeting
  2. To postpone discussion of (a bill, etc) for some time or indefinitely (N American)
  3. To tabulate
  4. To lay on the table
  5. To pay down
  6. To board
intransitive verb

To board

ORIGIN: Partly OE tabule, tabele, partly OFr (and Fr) table, both from L tabula a board

tabled /tāˈbld/ adjective

  1. Flat-topped
  2. Having a smooth sloping surface of dressed stone
  3. Having a table or tables

taˈbleful noun

As much as a table will hold

taˈblewise adjective and adverb

  1. In the form or in the manner of a table
  2. (of the communion table) not altarwise

taˈbling noun

  1. Tabulation
  2. The presenting of a bill, order, proposal, etc for discussion
  3. Playing at tables or backgammon
  4. Board
  5. Provision of tables
  6. Scarfing
  7. A broad hem on the skirt of a sail to reinforce it

table beer noun

Light beer for common use

table book noun

  1. A book of writing tablets, memorandum book or notebook
  2. An ornamental book intended to lie on a table
  3. A book of tables

taˈblecloth noun

A cloth for covering a table, esp at meals

table cover noun

A cloth for covering a table, esp at other than meal-times

taˈble-cut adjective

(of gems) cut with a flat top

taˈble-dancer noun

A striptease dancer who performs on a table in front of individual clients at a club

taˈble-dancing noun

table d'hôte /tä-bl’-dōt/ noun (pl tables d'hôte /tä-bl’-dōt/)

(Fr, host's table) a meal at a fixed price (as at a hotel)

adjective

(of a meal) charged at a fixed price

table football noun

A version of football played on a table with small metal, etc players usu suspended on rods, which are turned and spun to strike the ball

table game noun

A board game

table knife noun

A knife for cutting one's meat, etc with at the table

taˈbleland noun

  1. An extensive region of elevated land with a flat or undulating surface
  2. A plateau

table leaf noun

An extension to a table top, hinged, drawn out or inserted

table licence noun

A licence to serve alcoholic drinks with meals only

table linen noun

Linen tablecloths, napkins, etc

table maid noun

A woman who sets the table and waits

table manners plural noun

Social behaviour at the table during meals

table mat noun

A mat placed under dishes on a table

table money noun

  1. An allowance (esp in the services) for official entertainment
  2. A restaurateur's euphemism for cover-charge

table music noun

Music in parts that can be read by performers at each side of a table

table napkin noun

A cloth (or paper substitute) used during a meal to protect the clothes and to wipe fingers and lips

taˈble-rapping noun

Knocking or tapping sounds on a table, attributed by spiritualists to the spirits of the dead attempting to communicate with the living

table salt noun

Fine salt suitable for adding as a seasoning to food

table skittles singular noun

A game in which a suspended ball is swung to knock down pegs set up on a board

taˈblespoon noun

One of the largest spoons used for measuring and serving food

taˈblespoonful noun (pl taˈblespoonfuls)

As much as will fill a tablespoon

taˈble-sport noun (Shakespeare)

The butt of the company at table

table talk noun

Familiar conversation, as at the table, during and after meals

table tennis noun

A game like lawn tennis played on a table using hollow balls of Celluloid or similar light material

table top noun

  1. The top of a table
  2. A flat top
  3. A piece of equipment small or portable enough to be used on a table, desk, etc

taˈble-topped adjective

taˈble-turning noun

  1. Movements of tables (or other objects) attributed by spiritualists to the agency of spirits, and by the sceptical to collective involuntary muscular action
  2. The practice of turning tables (see turn the tables below)

taˈbleware noun

Dishes, spoons, knives, forks, etc for table use

table water noun

A mineral water suitable for drinking with a meal

table wine noun

An ordinary wine usu drunk with a meal

taˈble-work noun (printing)

The setting of type for tables, columns of figures, etc

at table

At a meal

fence the tables see under fence

lay on the table

To table (a bill, etc; see vt above)

Lord's table see under lord

turn the tables

To bring about a complete reversal of circumstances, from the idea of players at backgammon changing sides

under the table

  1. Not above-board, illicit
  2. Hopelessly drunk (informal)

turn /tûrn/

intransitive verb
  1. To revolve
  2. To rotate, to spin, whirl
  3. To move round
  4. To hinge
  5. To depend
  6. To issue
  7. To change or reverse direction or tendency
  8. To return
  9. To deviate
  10. To direct oneself, face (with to or towards)
  11. To shape one's course
  12. To take oneself
  13. To direct one's attention
  14. To change sides, religion or mode of life
  15. To be fickle
  16. To change
  17. To be transformed or converted (often with into)
  18. To become
  19. To result, prove or lead in the issue
  20. To be shaped on the lathe
  21. To become sour
  22. To change colour
  23. To become giddy
  24. To be nauseated
  25. To bend back, become turned
  26. To tack, beat to windward (nautical)
transitive verb
  1. To rotate
  2. To move round
  3. To change the direction of
  4. To deflect
  5. To bend
  6. To bend back the edge of
  7. To reverse
  8. To pass round or beyond
  9. To perform by turning
  10. To wind
  11. To set outside-in, or remake in that form
  12. To set upside down
  13. To direct
  14. To point
  15. To apply
  16. To send, drive, set
  17. To pour or tumble out
  18. To employ in circulation, pass through one's hands
  19. To translate
  20. To change
  21. To make (milk, cream, etc) sour
  22. To nauseate
  23. To make giddy
  24. To infatuate
  25. To transfer, hand over
  26. To convert, make
  27. To make the subject of (with to or into)
  28. To render
  29. To put by turning
  30. To return, give back
  31. To form in a lathe
  32. To shape
  33. To round off, fashion
  34. To pass, become (a certain age, hour, etc)
  35. To cause or persuade (an enemy agent) to work for one's own side
noun
  1. Act, occasion or place of turning
  2. New direction or tendency
  3. A twist
  4. A winding
  5. A complete revolution
  6. A bend
  7. A single traversing of a beat or course
  8. A short walk (or ride or drive)
  9. A fit of illness or emotion, esp an emotional shock, jar or feeling of faintness
  10. 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)
  11. Turning point
  12. A culmination
  13. A time or moment of change
  14. The halfway point on an eighteen-hole golf course, at which the players turn to begin the return nine holes
  15. A crisis
  16. A spell
  17. A recurring opportunity or spell in rotation or alternation
  18. Rotation
  19. A trick
  20. A performer's act or the performer
  21. A shift
  22. A bout
  23. Fashion
  24. Manner
  25. Cast of mind
  26. Aptitude
  27. Bent
  28. Occasion, exigency
  29. A vicissitude
  30. A characteristic quality or effect
  31. Act of kindness or malice
  32. An inverted type serving for a temporarily missing letter
  33. A complete financial transaction, covering the buying and selling of a commodity, etc
  34. The difference between the bid and offer price of shares (stock exchange)
  35. (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

  1. Fashioned
  2. Wrought in a lathe
  3. Beyond the age (now usu without of)
  4. Reversed
  5. Outside-in
  6. (esp of printing type) upside down
  7. Soured

turnˈer noun

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

turnˈery noun

  1. The art of turning in a lathe
  2. Turner's work
  3. A turner's shop

turnˈing noun

  1. Rotation
  2. Reversal
  3. A bend
  4. The act of making a turn
  5. A winding
  6. Deviation
  7. A place where a road strikes off
  8. 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
  9. (in pl) the shavings from the lathe
  10. In pottery, the shaping of a vase, etc
  11. Conversion, transformation

turnˈabout or turnˈaround noun

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

turnˈagain noun (archaic)

A refrain

turnaround see turnabout above and turnround below.

turnˈback noun

  1. A folded-back part
  2. 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

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

turnˈ-down adjective

Folded down

noun

  1. A turn-down part
  2. A turn-down collar
  3. 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

  1. The point at which anything turns in its course
  2. A maximum or minimum point on a graph
  3. 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

  1. An under-jailer
  2. A turncock
  3. (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

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

turn-on see turn on below.

turnˈout noun

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

turnˈover noun

  1. A turning over
  2. A transference
  3. A part folded over
  4. A newspaper article begun on the front page and continued overleaf
  5. A small pie made by folding over the crust
  6. A small shawl (archaic)
  7. An apprentice transferred to a new employer to complete the apprenticeship (dialect)
  8. The total amount of money changing hands in a business
  9. The number of employees starting or finishing employment at a particular place of work over a given period
  10. The money value of total sales over a period
  11. (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

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

turnpike man noun (historical)

A tollgate keeper

turnpike road noun

  1. A road on which there are or were tollgates
  2. A main road

turnˈround or turnˈaround noun

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

turnˈ-screw noun (archaic)

A screwdriver

turnˈskin noun (archaic)

A werewolf

turnˈspit noun

  1. A person who turns a spit
  2. A long-bodied, short-legged dog employed to drive a wheel by which roasting-spits were turned
  3. 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

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

adjective

Turned up

a good (or bad) turn

A helpful service (or a disservice)

at every turn

  1. Everywhere
  2. Incessantly

by turns

  1. One after another
  2. 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

  1. At the turning point, changing
  2. On the point of turning sour

serve its or one's turn

  1. To answer the purpose
  2. To do well enough

speak or talk out of turn

To say something indiscreet or tactless

take a turn

  1. To go for a stroll
  2. 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

  1. To face round to the opposite direction
  2. To spin, rotate

turn about or turn and turn about

  1. Alternately
  2. In rotation

turn adrift

  1. To unmoor and let float away
  2. To cast off

turn again

  1. To turn back
  2. To revert

turn against

  1. To use to the injury of
  2. To render hostile to
  3. To rebel against

turn an enemy's flank, line or position

  1. To manoeuvre so as to attack in the rear
  2. To outwit

turn an honest penny see under penny

turn around see turn round below.

turn aside

  1. To avert
  2. To deviate
  3. To avert the face

turn away

  1. To dismiss from service, to discharge
  2. To avert, to turn or look in another direction
  3. To deviate, to depart
  4. To refuse admittance to
  5. To reject, send away

turn back

  1. To cause to retreat
  2. To return
  3. To fold back

turn colour

To change colour

turn down

  1. To bend, double, or fold down
  2. To invert
  3. To lower (a light, volume on a radio, etc)
  4. To reject

turn forth

To expel

turn in

  1. To bend inward
  2. To enter
  3. To register (a score)
  4. To surrender, hand over voluntarily (turnˈ-in noun)
  5. 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

  1. To deviate
  2. To dismiss
  3. To divert
  4. To complete, achieve by labour
  5. To shut or switch off
  6. To make (someone) lose interest or enthusiasm, to bore, be disliked by or distasteful to (turnˈ-off noun; slang)
  7. To give in marriage (archaic)
  8. 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

  1. To set running (eg the flow of water)
  2. To set in operation by switching on (also figurative)
  3. To depend on
  4. To turn towards and attack (physically or verbally)
  5. To give (a person) a sense of heightened awareness and vitality, as do hallucinogenic drugs (slang)
  6. 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

  1. To bend outwards
  2. To drive out, to expel
  3. To remove the contents of
  4. To dress, groom, take care of the appearance of
  5. To put (cattle, etc) to pasture
  6. To produce and put forth
  7. To prove in the result
  8. To muster
  9. To go on strike
  10. To switch off (a light)
  11. To get out of bed (informal)
  12. To go out of doors (informal)

turn over

  1. To roll over
  2. To set the other way up
  3. To change sides
  4. To hand over, pass on
  5. To change the function of
  6. To handle or do business to the amount of
  7. To examine by turning the pages
  8. To ponder
  9. To rob (slang)
  10. To start up (an engine)

turn round or around

  1. Of a ship, aircraft, etc, to arrive, unload, reload and leave again
  2. To reverse the course or direction of
  3. 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

  1. To make someone giddy
  2. 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

  1. To have recourse to
  2. To point to
  3. To result in
  4. To change or be changed into
  5. To set to work

turn turtle see under turtle1

turn up

  1. To point upwards
  2. To fold upwards
  3. To come or bring to light
  4. To arrive or appear (by chance)
  5. To set face up
  6. To invert
  7. To grub up
  8. To disturb
  9. To strengthen or increase (eg the level of light, radio volume, etc)
  10. To refer to, look up
  11. To disgust (informal)

turn-up for the book or books

A totally unexpected (usu pleasant) occurrence

turn upon

  1. To cast back upon, retort
  2. To hinge on

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