turning

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Synonyms: burning, urning, gurning, tuning, turing, turfing, tunning, durning, turking

Antonyms: burning, urning, gurning, tuning, turing, turfing, tunning, durning, turking

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Noun

1. A turn or deviation from a straight course.
   • Take the second turning on the left.
2. At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
3. The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
4. The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
5. One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
   • Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president.
6. Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
   • The turnings get into your trouser turnups!

Verb

1. present participle and gerund of turn
   • The Earth is turning about its axis as we speak.
   • He made wooden soldiers by turning them on a hand lathe.

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