What's the difference between sour and turn?

Sour


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
  • (superl.) Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
  • (superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
  • (superl.) Afflictive; painful.
  • (superl.) Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
  • (n.) A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
  • (v. t.) To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
  • (v. t.) To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
  • (v. t.) To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
  • (v. t.) To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
  • (v. i.) To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
  • (2) The parotid saliva of the caries-rampant group showed a significantly higher level of anodemigrating proteins, predominantly isoamylases, and a significantly lower level of cathode-migrating proteins than that of the caries-resistant group in both paraffin-stimulated and sour lemon-stimulated salivary flows.
  • (3) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
  • (4) The munching, and some data crunching, produced firm statistical findings ("The flavour cowy was correlated with age and sourness, but was not correlated to any other flavours or tastes").
  • (5) A shame such a landmark achievement was soured by Allam refusing to talk to the local council over a potential stadium expansion and trying to change the club’s name to Hull Tigers, which many fans vehemently oppose.
  • (6) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
  • (7) Kaesong, which facilitated nearly $2bn a year in cross-border trade, had been the last joint project left as relations between the two Koreas soured over the past five years.
  • (8) The UK remains one of the most diligent enforcers of convention rights, but it appears to have soured into one of the least appreciative national constituencies.
  • (9) Before the adenosine test, the perception of sourness was tested similarly with six concentrations of citric acid (1-100 mM).
  • (10) Sour taste stimuli (weak acids) decreased outward K+ currents and slightly reduced inward currents; bitter taste stimuli (quinine) reduced inward currents to a greater extent than outward currents.
  • (11) If i remember correctly, a third of the milk was turned sour, a Russian delicacy'.
  • (12) Instead, the different taste qualities--sweet, sour, salty, bitter--are subserved by different mechanisms.
  • (13) "They are taking a mixed strategy, which I would call the sweet and sour approach," Peter Beck, research fellow at Stanford University and a specialist on Korean affairs, told Reuters.
  • (14) On average, monosodium glutamate and seltzer, which mongrel dogs do not normally encounter in their diets, produced lower gastric acid secretion and pancreatic polypeptide release than sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and meaty tastes.
  • (15) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan's crumbly little almond and lemon tarts are the perfect example of its charms, to my mind – not too sweet, not too sour, just intensely, deliciously zesty.
  • (16) Behavior of Staphylococcus aureus strains 100-A, 196-E, 254, 473, 505, and 521 in sweet (18 to 80% milk fat) and neutralized sour cream was studied.
  • (17) "That was for the players and their families," said Benítez, the implication being why should he risk souring the atmosphere by simply joining in?
  • (18) If the maximum investment choice is not taken, and NHS performance turns sour in future years, Stevens will be able to say, “I told you so”.
  • (19) They worked together at Porto, Chelsea and Internazionale but the relationship has soured.
  • (20) Suu Kyi's relationship with the generals has reportedly turned sour again In her tireless efforts to secure cooperation from the military, Suu Kyi has repeatedly expressed her appreciation, respect and “genuine” affection for the Tatmadaw (feudal military), which her father founded under Japan’s fascist patronage in December 1942, much to the dismay of many minorities who have borne the brunt of the organisation’s ruthless policies.

Turn


Definition:

  • (n.) Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
  • (n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
  • (v. t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.
  • (v. t.) To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.
  • (v. t.) To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote.
  • (v. t.) To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt.
  • (v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.
  • (v. t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.
  • (v. t.) To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.
  • (v. i.) To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
  • (v. i.) To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.
  • (v. i.) To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.
  • (v. i.) To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
  • (v. i.) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
  • (v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
  • (v. i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
  • (v. i.) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
  • (v. i.) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.
  • (v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.
  • (v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • (v. i.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
  • (n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
  • (n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.
  • (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
  • (n.) A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.
  • (n.) Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
  • (n.) Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
  • (n.) A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
  • (n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
  • (n.) A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
  • (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
  • (n.) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
  • (n.) Monthly courses; menses.
  • (n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (2) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (3) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (4) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (5) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (6) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
  • (7) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
  • (8) A second Scottish referendum has turned from a highly probable event into an almost inevitable one.
  • (9) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (10) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
  • (11) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
  • (12) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (13) In just a week her life has been turned upside down.
  • (14) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (15) Berlin said it was not too late to turn back from the abyss, without proposing any decisions or action.
  • (16) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
  • (17) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (18) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
  • (19) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (20) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.

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