A turn of speed

Definition

turn /tɜ:n/ v Movement around a central point ၁။ လွည့္သည္၊ လည္သည္။ The earth turns on its axis once every 24 hours. ❍ The hands of a clock turn very slowly. ❍ The wheels of the car began to turn. ❍ I can't get the screw to turn. ❍ Can you turn it? ❍ She turned the handle but the door wouldn't open. ❍ He turned the key in the lock. ❍ She turned the steering-wheel sharply to the left to avoid a cyclist. ၂။ ~ (sb/ sth) (over) လွည့္သည္။ လည္ သည္။ လိွမ့္သည္။ လိမ့္သည္။ If you turn over you might find it easier to get to sleep. ❍ The car skidded, turned over and burst into flames. ❍ Grill the meat on one side, then turn it over and grill the other side. ❍ He sat there idly turning the pages of a book. ❍ She turned the chair on its side to repair it. ❍ You've turned your sweater inside out. ❍ Turn the record over and put on (ie start to play) the other side. ၃။ (က) လွည့္သည္။ ေကြ႕သည္။ About/ Left/ Right turn! (ie as military commands) ❍ We turned and headed for home. ❍ She turned to look at me. ❍ He turned towards her. ❍ ( fig ) Her thoughts turned to (ie She began to think about) her dead husband. ❍ He turned his back to the wall. ❍ She turned (her face) away in disgust. (ခ) (ဒီေရ၊ ဖ်ား) လွည့္သည္၊ လည္သည္။ The tide is turning— we'd better get back. ၄။ လွည့္ခ်ိန္သည္။ လွည့္ၾကည့္သည္။ ေျပာင္းသည္။ Police turned water-cannon on the rioters (ie to make them stop and go away). ❍ They turned their dogs on us. သူတို႔ကတို႔ကို ေခြးနဲ႔ ႐ႉးတိုက္လႊတ္တယ္။ ❍ She turned her eyes towards him. ❍ ( fig ) It's time to turn our attention to the question of money. Putting or sending something into a particular place or condition ၅။ (လႊတ္၊ ျဖဳတ္) ေပးသည္။ turn a horse into a field ❍ turn a boat adrift ❍ The police questioned him for three days before turning him loose again. ၆။ (ေခါက္၊ လွန္) ခ်သည္။ (ပင့္၊ မ) တင္သည္။ She turned down the blankets and climbed into bed. ❍ He turned up the collar of his coat and hurried out into the rain. Changing direction ၇။ ~ (round) sth ေကြ႕သည္။ ခ်ဳိးသည္။ The car turned (round) the corner and disappeared from sight. ၈။ ေကြ႕သည္။ ခ်ဳိးသည္။ The river turns north at this point. ❍ The road turns to the left after the church. ၉။ (no passive) (ကြၽမ္း)ပစ္သည္၊ ထိုးသည္။ turn cartwheels/ somersaults. Changing state or form ၁၀။ (က) (သိုး၊ ဆိုး၊ ညိႇဳး စသည္) သြားသည္။ The milk turned sour in the heat/ The heat turned the milk sour. ❍ He turned nasty when we refused to give him the money. ❍ Leaves turn brown in autumn. ❍ The weather has turned cold and windy. ❍ She turned a deathly shade of white when she heard the news. ❍ He's a lawyer turned politician (ie He was formerly a lawyer but is now a politician). ❍ BECOME (ခ) (not in the continuous tenses) (အသက္အရြယ္) ျပည့္သည္၊ ေရာက္သည္၊ တိုင္သည္။ She turned forty last June. ❍ It's turned midnight. ၁၁။ ~ (sb/ sth) (from A) to/ into B (ကူး) ေျပာင္းသည္။ (အသြင္၊ အျဖစ္သို႔) ေျပာင္းသည္။ Caterpillars turn into butterflies. ❍ Water turns into ice when it freezes. ❍ His expression turned from bewilderment to horror. ❍ The experience has turned him into a sad and bitter man. ❍ The witch turned the prince into a frog. ❍ The novel was turned into a successful Hollywood movie. ၁၂။ (ေအာ္ဂလီ) ဆန္သည္။ The sight of the greasy stew made my stomach turn/ turned my stomach. ၁၃။ အခ်ဥ္ေပါက္ေစသည္။ The thundery weather has turned the milk. ၁၄။ ပန္းပြတ္သည္။ ပြတ္ခံသည္။ turn a chair leg. n ၁။ [C] လွည့္ျခင္း။ (တစ္)ပတ္။ give the handle a few turns. ၂။ [C]…ေကြ႕။ take a left/ right turn. See also THREE-POINT TURN, U-TURN ၃။ [C] လမ္းခ်ဳိး။ လမ္းေကြ႕။ အေကြ႕(အေကာက္)။ a lane full of twists and turns ❍ Slow down as you approach the turn. Compare TURNING ၄။ [C] အလွည့္အေျပာင္း။ အလွည့္။ an unfortunate turn of events ❍ Matters have taken an unexpected turn. ❍ Business has taken a turn for the better/ worse. ၅။ [C usu sing] အလွည့္။ Please wait (until it is/ for) your turn to be served. ❍ Whose turn is it to do the washing up? ❍ I'll take a turn at the steering-wheel. ၆။ [C] ( becoming dated ) (တစ္) ပတ္။ I think I'll take a turn round the garden. ၇။ [C] (ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖမႈ) အလွည့္။ a comedy/ song-and-dance/ variety turn. See also STAR TURN ၈။ ( infml ) (က) [sing] အလန္႔တၾကား။ You gave me quite a turn, bursting in like that! (ခ) [C] ( dated or joc ) ဖ်ားခ်င္သလိုနာခ်င္သလို ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ She's had one of her turns. ❏ as it/ things turned out [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ခ်င္ေတာ့။ I didn't need my umbrella, as it turned out (ie because it didn't rain). ❏ at every turn [ IDM ] ေနရာတိုင္း (သို႔) အခ်ိန္တိုင္း။ She found her plans blocked at every turn. ❏ be well, badly, etc turned out [ IDM ] အက် (သို႔) ပံုမက်ပန္းမက်ဝတ္စားသည္။ She's always so elegantly turned out. ❏ by turns [ IDM ] တစ္လွည့္စီ။ Her book is funny and frightening by turns. ❏ do sb a good/ bad turn [ IDM ] တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္ကို ကူညီသည္/ ေႏွာင့္ယွက္သည္။ ❏ done, etc to a turn [ IDM ] ႏူးနပ္ေအာင္ ခ်က္ထားသည္၊ ကင္ထားသည္ စသည္။ ❏ in (his, its, etc) turn [ IDM ] တစ္ေယာက္တစ္လဲ။ တစ္ျပန္တစ္လွည့္။ The girls called out their names in turn. ❍ This led to greater production, which in (its) turn led to greater profits. ❏ on the turn [ IDM ] အခ်ဳိး၊ အဆင့္ ေျပာင္းလုလု။ (သိုး၊ ဆိုး၊ အူ၊ လည္) ခါနီး။ His luck is on the turn. ❍ This milk is on the turn (ie about to become sour). ❏ one good turn deserves another [ IDM ] ( saying ) တစ္လုတ္စားဖူးသူ႕ေက်းဇူး။ ❏ out of turn [ IDM ] ၁။ အလွည့္မတိုင္မီ။ ၂။ မဆင္မျခင္။ speak out of turn (ie in an offensive or foolish way). ❏ take turns (at sth) ; take sth in turns [ IDM ] တစ္ေယာက္တစ္လဲ။ You can't both use the bike at once—you'll have to take (it in) turns. ❏ turn-about n အေျပာင္းအလဲ။ The government's sudden turn-about on taxation surprised political commentators. ❏ turn (sb) against sb [ PHRV ] ဘက္ျပန္သည္။ She turned against her old friend. ❍ After the divorce he tried to turn the children against their mother. ❏ (do sth) turn and turn about [ IDM ] အလွည့္က်။ တစ္ေယာက္တစ္လွည့္။ ❏ turn around [ PHRV ] = TURN ROUND ❏ turn- around n = TURN-ROUND ❏ turn sb away (from sth) [ PHRV ] ေမာင္းထုတ္သည္။ ႏွင္လႊတ္သည္။ Hundreds of people were turned away from the stadium (eg because it was full). ❍ They had nowhere to stay so I couldn't turn them away. ❏ turn (sb/ sth) back [ PHRV ] ျပန္လွည့္လာသည္။ ျပန္လွည့္ ရသည္။ The weather became so bad that they had to turn back. ❍ The project must go ahead: there can be no turning back. ❍ Our car was turned back at the border. ❏ turn sb/ sth down [ PHRV ] ပယ္သည္။ He tried to join the army but was turned down (flat) because of poor health. ❍ He asked her to marry him but she turned him down/ turned down his proposal. ❏ turn sth down [ PHRV ] ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ Don't forget to turn down the gas after half an hour. ❍ Please turn the volume down — it's much too loud. ❏ turn in [ PHRV ] ၁။ ခြင္သည္။ Her feet turn in as she walks. ၂။ ( infml ) အိပ္ရာဝင္သည္။ It's late—I think I'll turn in. ❏ turn sb in [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ရဲလက္အပ္သည္။ She threatened to turn him in. ❏ turn sth in [ PHRV ] ၁။ ျပန္အပ္သည္။ You must turn in your kit (ie uniform, etc) before you leave the army. ၂။ အပ္သည္။ She turned in a really first-rate essay on George Orwell. ၃။ စြန္႔သည္။ The job was damaging his health so he had to turn it in. ၄။ လက္စြမ္းျပသည္။ ေျခစြမ္းျပသည္။ The champion turned in a superb performance to retain his title. ❏ turn in on oneself [ PHRV ] (လြမ္းေဆြးမႈျဖင့္) ကုပ္ေနသည္၊ ေခြေနသည္။ She's really turned in on herself since Peter left her. ❏ turn sth inside out/ upside down [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေမႊေႏွာက္လွန္ေလွာသည္။ The burglars had turned the house inside out. ၂။ လံုးဝေျပာင္းလဲပစ္သည္။ The new manager turned the old systems upside down. ❏ turn off (sth) [ PHRV ] ေကြ႕သည္။ ခ်ဳိးသည္။ Is this where we turn off/ where the road turns off for Hull? ❍ We turned off the motorway at Lancaster. ❏ turn (sb) off [ PHRV ] ( infml ) စိတ္ကုန္သည္။ I'm afraid I turned off when they started talking about pig-farming. ❍ Men with beards turn me off. ❏ turn sth off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ပိတ္သည္။ turn off the light/ oven ❍ They've turned off the water while they repair a burst pipe. ၂။ ပိတ္သည္။ Please turn the television off before you go to bed. ❏ turn-off n ၁။ လမ္းခြဲ။ This is the turn-off for the airport. ၂။ (usu sing ) ( infml ) စိတ္ကုန္စရာ။ စိတ္ပ်က္စရာ။ Smelly feet are definitely a turn-off as far as I'm concerned. ❏ a turn of mind [ IDM ] …အေတြးအေခၚ၊ အေလ့အထ၊ ဟန္ပန္။ have an academic/ a practical/ a scientific turn of mind. ❏ a turn of phrase [ IDM ] ေျပာပံုဆိုပံု။ an apt/ a succinct/ a witty turn of phrase. ❏ a turn of the screw [ IDM ] ဘူးေလးရာဖ႐ံုဆင့္ျခင္း။ တစ္ပူေပၚႏွစ္ပူဆင့္ျခင္း။ ❏ a turn of speed [ IDM ] ေျခကုန္သုတ္ျခင္း။ She put on an impressive turn of speed in the last lap. ❏ the turn of the year/ century [ IDM ] ႏွစ္ဆန္း/ရာစု ႏွစ္ဆန္း။ turn-of-the-century buildings (ie ones built at this time). ❏ turn-on n (usu sing ) ( infml ) ရင္ဖိုစရာ။ She thinks hairy chests are a turn-on! ❏ turn on sb [ PHRV ] ဘက္ျပန္သည္။ ေသြလွန္သည္။ His old dog suddenly turned on him and bit him in the leg. ❍ Why are you all turning on me (ie criticizing or blaming me)? ❏ turn on sth [ PHRV ] … ဘက္လွည့္သြားသည္။ The discussion turned on the need for better public health care. ❏ turn on sth/ doing sth [ PHRV ]( Brit ) … အေပၚမူတည္သည္။ Much turns on the outcome of the current peace talks. ❏ turn sb on [ PHRV ] ( infml ) စိတ္ဝင္စားသည္။ မ်က္စိက်သည္။ Jazz has never really turned me on. ❍ She gets turned on by men in uniform. ❏ turn (sb) on (to sth) [ PHRV ] ( US ) (မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါး တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ) ဘက္သို႔လွည့္ေပးလိုက္သည္။ He turned her on to heroin. ❏ turn sth on [ PHRV ] ဖြင့္သည္။ turn on the light/ television/ central heating ❍ Turn on the gas and light the oven. ❍ Could you turn on the bath (ie make the water start flowing) for me while you're upstairs? ❍ ( fig ) He really knows how to turn on the charm (ie become very charming). ❏ turn out [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ပြဲ) တက္သည္။ (လုပ္ငန္း တာဝန္) ဝင္သည္။ A vast crowd turned out to watch the procession. ❍ Not many men turned out for duty. ၂။ (used with an adv or adj, or in questions after how ) …ျဖစ္သည္။ If the day turns out wet we may have to change our plans. ❍ Despite our worries, everything turned out well in the end. ❏ turn (sth) out [ PHRV ] ကားထြက္သည္။ ျဖန္႔ထုတ္သည္။ Her toes turn out. ❍ She turned her toes out. ❏ turn sb/ sth out [ PHRV ] ထုတ္လုပ္သည္။ ေမြးထုတ္သည္။ The factory turns out 900 cars a week. ❍ The school has turned out some first-rate pupils. ❏ turn sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ပိတ္သည္။ Remember to turn out the lights before you go to bed. ၂။ လွန္ေလွာသည္။ turn out the attic/ one's drawers ❍ The teacher ordered him to turn out his pockets. ❏ turn sb out (of/ from sth) [ PHRV ] ေမာင္းထုတ္သည္။ My landlord is turning me out at the end of the month. ❍ She got pregnant and was turned out of the house by her parents. ❏ turn out to be sb/ sth ; turn out that… [ PHRV ] လက္စသတ္ေတာ့ … ျဖစ္သည္။ She turned out to be a friend of my sister/ It turned out that she was a friend of my sister. ❍ The job turned out to be harder than we thought. ❏ turn over [ PHRV ] (စက္) ႏိႈးသည္၊ လည္သည္။ It was so cold that the engine wasn't turning over at all. ❏ turn sth over [ PHRV ] ၁။ စက္ႏိႈးသည္။ ၂။ ျပန္ေျပာင္း ေတြးသည္။ She kept turning over the events of the day in her mind. ၃။ … လွ်င္လုပ္ငန္း ပမာဏ…ရိွသည္။ The company turns over £150 million a year. ၄။ အႏုတ္အသိမ္း (ေႏွး၊ ျမန္) သည္။ A supermarket turns over its stock very rapidly. ၅။ ( sl ) ေဖာက္သည္။ ေမႊသည္။ Burglars had turned the shop over. ❏ turn sb over to sb [ PHRV ] … လက္အပ္သည္။ Customs officials turned the man over to the police. ❏ turn sth over to sb [ PHRV ] လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးသည္။ He turned the business over to his daughter. ❏ turn round and do sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) လုပ္ရက္တယ္။ ေျပာရက္တယ္။ How could she turn round and say that, after all I've done for her? ❏ turn round/ around [ PHRV ] ခရီးတစ္ပတ္ျပန္ေက်ာ့ သည္။ These cruise ships can turn round in two days. ❏ turn-round (also turn-around ) (usu sing ) n ၁။ ဆိုက္ၿပီးျပန္မထြက္မီ ကုန္တင္ကုန္ခ်ျခင္း။ ၂။ (တစ္ျဖစ္လဲ) ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း။ We have witnessed a remarkable turn-round in the company's fortunes. ❏ turn (sb/ sth) round [ PHRV ] လွည့္သည္။ Turn round and let me look at your back. ❍ Turn your chair round to the fire. ❏ turn signal n ( US ) = INDICATOR ၂(ခ) ❏ turn to sb/ sth [ PHRV ] အားကိုးအားထားျပဳသည္။ အားထားသည္။ မီွခိုသည္။ She has nobody she can turn to. ❍ The parish priest is someone to whom people can turn in difficult times. ❍ After the failure of his marriage he turned to drink. ❏ turn up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ျပန္ရသည္။ Don't worry about your missing wallet—I'm sure it'll turn up. ၂။ ေရာက္လာသည္။ ေပါက္လာသည္။ We arranged to meet at the cinema at 7.30, but he never turned up. ၃။ ျဖစ္လာသည္။ ေပၚလာသည္။ He's still hoping something (eg a job or a piece of good luck) will turn up. ❏ turn-up n ၁။ [C usu pl ] ေခါက္တင္ထားသည့္ ေဘာင္းဘီ ေအာက္နား။ Turn-ups are becoming fashionable again. ၂။ [sing] ( Brit infml ) မႀကံဳစဖူး။ ေက်ာက္ခဲေရေပၚျခင္း။ The champion beaten in the first round? That's a turn-up for the book! ❏ turn sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ (အသံ) ျမႇင့္သည္။ I can't hear the radio very well—could you turn it up a bit? ၂။ (ေဘာင္းဘီေအာက္နား) ေခါက္တင္သည္။ These trousers are too long—they'll need turning up/ to be turned up. ၃။ တူးေဖာ္ရသည္။ The farmer turned up some old coins while ploughing the field. ❍ The soil had been turned up by the plough.

Examples

1. She turned and smiled at me.
2. He turned his head and looked around the room.
3. [turn to] : Maria turned to the reporters and said: ‘I’m innocent.’
4. [turn away] : Lopez just glared at the other man and then turned away.
5. [turn around/round] : The girls in front turned round and grinned.
6. [turn to do something] : The whole audience turned to stare at the latecomers.
7. [turn something around/round] : Turn your chairs round so you’re facing me.
8. [turn something on someone/something] : The attacker killed three people before turning the gun on himself.
9. [turn something over] : Turn the tape over and press ‘Play’.
10. [turn around/towards/into etc] : We turned into our drive
11. glad to get home.
12. The truck turned around and came back towards us.
13. [turn left/right] : Follow this path; then turn right and walk uphill.
14. [turn something around/towards/into etc] : He turned the car in the direction of the city.
15. They ordered the pilot to turn the plane around.
16. Here the road turns sharply to the right.
17. I heard the key turn in the lock.
18. Turning this wheel will start the machine.
19. [turn professional] : Duval turned professional in 1993.
20. [turn cold/chilly] : The weather turned quite chilly in the afternoon.
21. The leaves turn bright red in autumn.
22. He turned 40 in March.
23. It’s just turned midnight.