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/tərn ərˈaʊnd/ Listen

Turn around

noun

Turning in an opposite direction or position. Synonym: reversal.

verb

Turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically. Synonyms: swing about, swing around. "My conscience told me to turn around before I made a mistake"

Improve dramatically. "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"

Improve significantly; go from bad to good. Synonym: pick up.

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"Turn around" Quotes from Famous Books

... all her colours flying, and her decks black with passengers crowding to the rail and gazing towards us, we could not deny that she was a splendid vessel, and "even the ranks of Tuscany could scarce forbear a cheer." Once out in the stream her twin screws enabled her to turn around almost without the help of tugs, and just as our last bell was ringing she moved off down the bay. Then we backed slowly out in the same fashion, and, although we had not the advantage of seeing ourselves, we saw a great sight ...

— In a Steamer Chair And Other Stories • Robert Barr

... a lady on the street and wishing to speak to her, should never detain her, but may turn around and walk in the same direction she is going, until ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... seemeth silver." Weather vanes, made often of lead, were sometimes quite elaborate. One of the most important pieces of lead work in art is the figure of an angel on the chewet of Ste. Chapelle in Paris. Originally this figure was intended to be so controlled by clockwork that it would turn around once in the course of the twenty-four hours, so that his attitude of benediction should be directed to all four quarters of the city; but this was not practicable, and the angel is stationary. The cock on the weather vane at Winchester was described as early as the tenth century, in ...

— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison

... walls of some solitary lodging; storms roused and calmed without ever leaving the depths of hearts; amazing scenes of the moral world, for which a painter is wanted. Madame Jules sat down, leaving her husband to make a turn around the salon. After she was seated she seemed uneasy, and, while talking with her neighbor, she kept a furtive eye on Monsieur Jules Desmarets, her husband, a broker chiefly employed by the Baron de Nucingen. The following is the history ...

— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac

... Cuthbert and Rachel Lynde as a joke the next morning how a chubby little woman in a bright pink fascinator had clutched her by the arm, and gasped out: "Carey Penhallow can't take you—he says you're to look out for someone else," and was gone before she could answer or turn around. ...

— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

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