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| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | revolve, curve |
| Synonyms: | arc, bend, circle, circulate, corner, cut, eddy, ground, gyrate, incline, loop, negotiate, orbit, oscillate, pass, pivot, roll, rotate, round, spin, sway, swing, swivel, twirl, twist, vibrate, weave, wheel, whirl, wind, yaw, circumduct, come around, go around, go round, gyre, hang a left, hang a right, make a left, make a right, move in a circle, pass around, pirouette, take a bend |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reverse; change course |
| Synonyms: | about-face, aim, alter, alternate, backslide, call off, capsize, change, convert, curve, depart, detour, detract, deviate, digress, direct, diverge, double back, go back, incline, inverse, invert, loop, move, pivot, recoil, regress, relapse, retrace, return, revert, sheer, shift, sidetrack, subvert, sway, swerve, swing, swirl, switch, tack, transform, twist, upset, vary, veer, wheel, whip, whirl, zigzag, change position, face about, rechannel, redirect, shunt, shy away, volte-face |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adapt, fit |
| Synonyms: | alter, become, change, come, convert, divert, fashion, form, get, go, metamorphose, modify, mold, mutate, put, remodel, render, run, shape, transform, translate, transpose, vary, wax, change into, grow into, pass into, refashion, remake, transfigure, transmute |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become sour or tainted |
| Synonyms: | crumble, curdle, decay, decompose, disintegrate, dull, ferment, molder, putrefy, rot, sour, spoil, taint, acidify, become rancid, break down, go bad |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use; resort to |
| Synonyms: | address, appeal, apply, approach, be predisposed to, bend, devote, direct, employ, favor, give, go, have recourse, incline, lend, look, prefer, recur, repair, run, tend, throw, turn one's energies to, turn one's hand to, undertake, utilize |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sicken |
| Synonyms: | derange, discompose, disgust, disorder, nauseate, revolt, unbalance, undo, unhinge*, unsettle, upset, make one sick |
| Antonyms: | make well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change one's mind; defect |
| Synonyms: | desert, go over, influence, persuade, prejudice, rat*, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, tergiversate, apostatize, bring round, change sides, prevail upon, talk into, tergiverse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist a body part |
| Synonyms: | bruise, crick, dislocate, hurt, sprain, strain, wrench |
| Main Entry: | circuit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | revolution, track, boundary |
| Synonyms: | ambit, area, circle, circulation, circumference, compass, course, cycle, district, journey, lap, limit, line, orbit, perimeter, periphery, range, region, round, route, tour, tract, turn, twirl, way, wheel, whirl, wind, winding, zone, bounds, circling, circumnavigation, circumscription, circumvolution, gyration, gyre, perambulation, turning |
| Main Entry: | conversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, adaptation |
| Synonyms: | about-face*, alteration, change of heart, changeover, exchange, flip-flop*, flux, growth, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, novelty, passage, passing, permutation, progress, qualification, reclamation, reconstruction, reformation, reorganization, resolution, reversal, switch, transformation, translation, transmutation, born again, metanoia, metasis, proselytization, regeneration, remodelling, resolving, see the light, transfiguration, transmogrification, turning, turning around |
| Antonyms: | idleness, sameness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, variance, variation, deflection, hereticism, turning |
| Antonyms: | conformity, sameness, uniformity, straightforwardness |
| Main Entry: | divergence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branching out; difference |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, crotch, departure, detour, deviation, digression, disagreeing, discrepancy, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, diversity, division, fork, mutation, parting, radiation, ramification, separation, variety, varying, alterity, deflection, dissemblance, dissimilitude, divagation, divergency, otherness, turning, unlikeness |
| Antonyms: | accord, agreement, concord, convergence, harmony, sameness |
| Main Entry: | featuring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | giving prominence to |
| Synonyms: | pushing, showing, calling attention to, displaying, drawing attention to, giving center stage to, headlining, highlighting, making much of, pointing up, presenting, promoting, recommending, showing off, starring, turning, turning the spotlight on |
| Main Entry: | whirling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swirling |
| Synonyms: | revolving, vertiginous, rotating, spinning, turning |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
| Synonyms: | alive, astir, effective, efficacious, flowing, hasty, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, simmering, speedy, traveling, walking, working, at work, bustling, exertive, functioning, going, impelling, in force, in play, in process, shifting, speeding, streaming, swarming, turning |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish, abeyant |
| Main Entry: | adjustment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adaptation |
| Synonyms: | alteration, arrangement, fitting, fixing, improvement, mending, modification, organization, orientation, readjustment, redress, regulation, setting, standardization, acclimation, acclimatization, balancing, conformance, correcting, ordering, organizing, regulating, repairing, shaping, turning |
| Main Entry: | angle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shape formed by two lines meeting at a point |
| Synonyms: | bend, corner, crook, crotch, cusp, decline, divergence, dogleg, edge, elbow, flare, fork, incline, intersection, knee, nook, notch, point, slant, turn, twist, V, Y, flection, flexure, obliquity, turning |
| Main Entry: | bow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bend from waist |
| Synonyms: | angle, arc, arch, bend, bending, bob, curtsy, curvature, curve, inclination, kowtow*, nod, obeisance, round, salaam, turn, curvation, flection, flexure, genuflection, turning |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | diversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change in a course, path |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, departure, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, red herring*, variation, deflection, fake out, turning |
| Antonyms: | conforming, staying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reverse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opposite |
| Synonyms: | about-face, antithesis, back, bottom, contradiction, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, flip side*, flip-flop*, inverse, rear, retrogression, reversal, reversion, switch, turn, turnabout, underside, antipode, antipole, change of mind, contra, counterpole, other side, overturning, regression, retroversion, reversement, turn around, turning, verso, volte-face, wrong side |
| Antonyms: | identical, same |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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