TURN OUT


Meaning of TURN OUT in English

transitive verb

1.

a. : to drive out : expel , evict

voters have never turned a party out of power during a period of prosperity — Newsweek

if you can't behave decently I'll have you turned out — Margaret Kennedy

b. : to put (as a horse) to pasture

2.

a. : to turn inside out

turning out his pockets to show they were empty

b. : to empty the contents of especially for cleaning or rearranging ; also : clean

three maids who were turning out the drawing room — Ethel Anderson

3. : to cause to point outward

turns his toes out like a dancer

4. : to produce by or as if by machine : make with rapidity or regularity

turned out literally thousands of airplanes and trained pilots — W.L.Davidson

turns out books faster than most men write letters — Arthur Knight

5. : to equip, dress, or finish in a careful or elaborate way

turned out in a cutaway, striped trousers, a careful collar-and-tie effect, white carnation — C.W.Morton

many of them are married, with wives who insist on turning them out well groomed — S.P.B.Mais

6. : to put out (a light) by turning a valve or a switch

7. : to call (as a company) out from rest or from shelter and into formation

intransitive verb

1.

a. : to come or go out from home in answer to a summons or invitation

students and faculty turn out to aid in shoveling the streets clear — Corey Ford

turn out for football practice

b. : to get out of bed

turned out about two in the morning to make our final preparations for landing — H.L.Merillat

2. : to prove to be in the result or end

if what he envisages turned out to be really a frontier — W.P.Webb

: end

stories that turn out happily

waiting to see how the game turned out

: become in maturity or eventually

the oldest boy … turned out ornery as a bobcat — Jean Stafford

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