(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.
Volution
Definition:
(n.) A spiral turn or wreath.
(n.) A whorl of a spiral shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have investigated nine adult human male voluteers without apparent gonadal dysfunction with regard to their in vitro metabolism of 3H-progesterone.
(2) Yeast sodium nucleinate promotes a softening and reverse development of some deficital symptoms (mainly in an emotional-volutional sphere), decreasing the threshold of sensitivity to neuroleptics.
(3) Examination of the fine structure of the genes responsible for this pentitol metabolism has given clues about the volution of metabolic pathways.
(4) Blood was obtained from 11 healthy voluteers, mixed with two standard types of anticoagulant used in blood transfusion centres and stored for 21-28 days at 4 degrees C. Leucocyte ascorbic acid (LAA) fell to deficient levels after 7 days in all cases.
(5) Mean ventilation-perfusion ratio was determined with 20 human voluteers.
(6) These data are not in correlation with the nozological disorders, type of the oneiroid condition, but are in coordination with the character of emotional-volutional disturbances which accompany dream-like disorders of consciousness.