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Turn Around
- noun - cause to get better; "The new stategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son''s performance in math"
- get better; "Her performance in school picked up"
- improve dramatically; "The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"
- improve significantly; go from bad to good; "Her performance in school picked up"
- turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically; "He turned around to face his opponent"; "My conscience told me to turn around before I made a mistake"
- turning in an opposite direction or position; "the reversal of the image in the lens"
Turn Signal
- noun - a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn
Turn Turtle
- verb - overturn accidentally; "Don''t rock the boat or it will capsize!"
- overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!"
Turn-Buckle
- - A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc. (b) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.
Turnarounds
- noun - a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- act or process of unloading and loading and servicing a vessel or aircraft for a return trip
- an area sufficiently large for a vehicle to turn around
- time need to prepare a vessel or ship for a return trip
- turning in the opposite direction
Turnbuckles
- noun - an oblong metal coupling with a swivel at one end and an internal thread at the other into which a threaded rod can be screwed in order to form a unit that can be adjusted for length or tension
Turneresque
- unknown - description of work of Romanticist landscape painter early 19th century
Turningness
- - The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.
Turnvereins
- noun - a club of tumblers or gymnasts
Turpentines
- noun - obtained from conifers (especially pines)
- volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally