(n.) The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.
(n.) The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.
(n.) Deviation from the way or proper course.
(n.) Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
(n.) The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.
(n.) A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.
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.
Volta
Definition:
(n.) A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are several fish, including the acari, that are unique to the Volta Grande (Big Bend) where the hydropower plant is being constructed.
(2) Mutants of Methanococcus voltae were isolated that were resistant to the coenzyme M (CoM; 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid) analog 2-bromoethanesulfonic acid (BES).
(3) A DNA fragment from the methanogenic archaebacterium Methanococcus voltae, when cloned into the PstI site of the plasmid vector pBR322, complements the Escherichia coli argG mutation strongly or weakly depending on its orientation.
(4) The sequence of the gene cluster encoding the methyl coenzyme M reductase (MCR) in Methanococcus voltae was determined.
(5) Between April 1977 and June 1978, 214 babies born of 210 mothers infected with Onchocerciasis, were examined at the maternity of Po Hospital (Upper Volta).
(6) Occasional reports have been received from parts of West Africa, and the present investigation sought to clarify the situation in two areas, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta, and Kpain, Liberia, from which such reports had emanated.
(7) A methylviologen and 8-hydroxy-5-deazaflavin(F420)-reducing hydrogenase was purified over 800-fold to near homogeneity from the archaebacterium Methanococcus voltae with 10 U mg-1 F420-reducing activity.
(8) Urinary schistosomiasis is highly prevalent along the shores of the Volta Lake in Ghana, where transmission occurs focally in man-water contact sites.
(9) March 2011 Volta a Catalunya Later that month, Contador follows up his success in Murcia with victory in Catalunya.
(10) Two controlled experiments on the field of the group A polysaccharidic antimeningococcic vaccine in the Koudougou (Haute-Volta) and Koutiala (Mali) areas confirmed its efficiency and innocuity, the conferred immunity persisting two years at least.
(11) This yaws investigation has been realized in the South West of Upper-Volta, in 1981, in areas around Gaoua, Niangoloko, N'Dorola; this investigation concerns 15 villages, chosen at random, and a sample of 1540 persons older than 4 years.
(12) A simple force-of-infection model for onchocerciasis has been developed for a study of the age-specific epidemiological trends during a period of vector control in the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in the Volta River basin area (OCP).
(13) Human streptocerciasis has been found in the Accra district (Ghana), in southern Ivory Coast, and in Upper Volta in migrants.
(14) M. voltae contains a membrane component that is immunologically related to the H(+)-translocating ATP synthase of the archaeabacterium Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
(15) Sequencing the DNA (2,155 base pairs) cloned from this thermophilic methanogen demonstrated that the M. thermolithotrophicus hisA gene is located within a cluster of open reading frames (ORFs) and is 68 and 69% homologous at the nucleotide level to the hisA genes of the mesophilic methanococci M. voltae and M. vannielii, respectively.
(16) The ultrastructure and chemical composition of the cell wall of the marine archaebacterium Methanococcus voltae were studied by negative-staining and freeze-etch electron microscopy and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(17) Extracts of M. volta were found to readily cleave L-7,8-dihydroneopterin to 7,8-dihydro-6-(hydroxymethyl)pterin, which was confirmed to be a precursor of the pterin portion of the methanopterin.
(18) This in turn caused massive migrations from countries such as Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) to Ivory Coast.
(19) M. voltae ORFtrpA and ORFtrpB, which are transcribed in the same direction, are separated by a 37 bp AT-rich region.
(20) Based on the degree of hisA sequence homology, we conclude that M. voltae and M. vannielii are less closely related taxonomically than are members of the enteric group of eubacteria.