turning

UK /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/ US /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/
noun 5

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noun

1

A turn or deviation from a straight course.

Take the second turning on the left.

Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.

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).

Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.

A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.

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.

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