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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive" [syn: prove, turn out, turn up]
2: prove to be in the result or end; "It turns out that he was right"
3: produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery; "This factory turns out saws"
4: result or end; "How will the game turn out?" [syn: turn out, come out]
5: come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons; "How many people turned out that evening?"
6: bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" [syn: bear, turn out]
7: put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" [syn: eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out]
8: come and gather for a public event; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York"
9: outfit or equip, as with accessories; "The actors were turned out lavishly"
10: turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" [syn: turn out, splay, spread out, rotate]
11: cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights" [syn: switch off, cut, turn off, turn out] [ant: switch on, turn on]
12: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 1546 transitive verb 1. a. expel, evict b. to put (as a horse) to pasture 2. a. to turn inside out <turning out his pockets> b. to empty the contents of especially for cleaning or rearranging; also clean 3. to produce often rapidly or regularly by or as if by machine <a writer turning out stories> 4. to equip, dress, or finish in a careful or elaborate way 5. to put out by or as if by turning a switch <turn out the lights> 6. to call (as the guard or a company) out from rest or shelter and into formation intransitive verb 1. a. to come or go out from home in or as if in answer to a summons <voters turned out in droves> b. to get out of bed 2. a. to prove to be in the result or end <the play turned out to be a flop> <it turned out that we were both wrong> b. to become in maturity <nobody thought he'd turn out like this> c. end <stories that turn out happily>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If something turns out a particular way, it happens in that way or has the result or degree of success indicated. If I had known my life was going to turn out like this, I would have let them kill me... Sometimes things don't turn out the way we think they're going to... I was positive things were going to turn out fine. = work out PHRASAL VERB: V P prep, V P n, V P adj 2. When you are commenting on pleasant weather, you can say that is has turned out nice or fine, especially if this is unexpected. (BRIT SPOKEN) It's turned out nice again. PHRASAL VERB: it V P adj 3. If something turns out to be a particular thing, it is discovered to be that thing. Cosgrave's forecast turned out to be quite wrong... It turned out that I knew the person who got shot. PHRASAL VERB: V P to-inf, it V-ed P that 4. When you turn out something such as a light or gas, you move the switch or knob that controls it so that it stops giving out light or heat. I'll just play until the janitor comes round to turn the lights out. = turn off PHRASAL VERB: V n P, also V P n (not pron) 5. If a business or other organization turns out something, it produces it. They have been turning out great blades for 400 years. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 6. If you turn someone out of a place, especially the place where they have been living, you force them to leave that place. Surely nobody would suggest turning him out of the house... It was previously a small monastery but the authorities turned all the monks out. = throw out PHRASAL VERB: V n P of/from n, V n P, also V P n (not pron) 7. If you turn out the contents of a container, you empty it by removing them or letting them fall out. Turn out the dough on to a floured surface... Turn the plants out of their pots. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P of/from n, also V n P 8. If people turn out for a particular event or activity, they go and take part in it or watch it. Thousands of people turned out for the funeral... It was no wonder the fans turned out. The matches yielded 259 goals. PHRASAL VERB: V P for n, V P 9. see also turnout, turned out

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. (Active.) 1. Expel, drive out, turn adrift. 2. Put to pasture, put out to pasture. 3. Produce, furnish, manufacture, make, accomplish, do. II. (Neuter.) 1. Bend outward, project. 2. Issue, result, prove, eventuate. 3. Get up, rise from bed.

Moby Thesaurus

abjure, accouter, appoint, arise, arm, attain fulfillment, attend, be so, be such, bear, become of, boot, boot out, bounce, break, brush aside, bump, bust, can, caparison, cashier, cast, cast out, chuck, chuck out, come about, come along, come of, come on, come out, come through, come to pass, come true, contemn, contradict, contrive, convert, costume, deck, decline, defenestrate, defrock, degrade, demote, deny, deplume, depose, deprive, despise, detrude, develop, disapprove, disbar, discard, discharge, disclaim, discount, disdain, disemploy, disguise, dislodge, dismiss, disown, displace, displume, dispossess, disregard, dress, drum out, eject, end, ensue, equip, eventuate, evert, evict, except, exclude, expel, extrude, fall out, fare, fire, fit, fit out, fit up, follow, forswear, furlough, furnish, gear, get along, get by, get on, get up, give the ax, give the gate, give the hook, go along, go on, greet the day, habit, heave out, heel, hit the deck, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse, invert, issue, jettison, junk, kick, kick downstairs, kick out, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, make out, make redundant, man, manage, masquerade, munition, obtrude, oust, outfit, pan out, pass by, pass up, pension off, pile out, prepare, produce, pronate, prove, prove to be, push aside, put out, read out of, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, release, remove, renounce, repel, replace, repudiate, repulse, result, resupinate, retire, reverse, revolve, rig, rig out, rig up, rise, roll out, rotate, sack, scout, separate forcibly, shape up, shove away, spurn, stack up, staff, strip, suit, superannuate, supinate, surplus, suspend, terminate, throw away, throw out, throw overboard, thrust out, toss out, transpose, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn down, turn in, turn inside out, turn off, turn over, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn upside down, unfold, unfrock, unhouse, uniform, unkennel, uprise, waive, work out, yield