What does turn over mean?

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turn over

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, giveverb

    place into the hands or custody of

    "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

  2. overturn, tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, bowl over, tump oververb

    cause to overturn from an upright or normal position

    "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"

  3. roll, turn oververb

    move by turning over or rotating

    "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"

  4. dig, delve, cut into, turn oververb

    turn up, loosen, or remove earth

    "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"

  5. turn oververb

    do business worth a certain amount of money

    "The company turns over ten million dollars a year"

  6. turn, turn oververb

    cause to move around a center so as to show another side of

    "turn a page of a book"

  7. overturn, turn over, tip over, tump oververb

    turn from an upright or normal position

    "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"

  8. flip, flip over, turn oververb

    turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse

    "flip over the pork chop"; "turn over the pancakes"

  9. consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberateverb

    think about carefully; weigh

    "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"

Wiktionary

  1. turn oververb

    To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.

  2. turn oververb

    To relinquish; give back.

  3. turn oververb

    To transfer.

  4. turn oververb

    To produce, complete, or cycle through.

  5. turn oververb

    To mull, ponder

  6. turn oververb

    To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.

  7. turn oververb

    To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).

  8. Etymology: to turn + over

Wikipedia

  1. Turn Over

    Turn Over is the first live album of the Japanese rock group Show-Ya. It is a collection of live songs recorded during concerts from the "Date Line Tour" and "Immigration Tour" in 1987, and from the "Tour of the Immigrant" in 1988. The album reached position No. 36 in the Japanese Oricon chart.

ChatGPT

  1. turn over

    Turn over generally refers to the act of flipping, rotating, or reversing the position of an object so its opposite side is facing upward. In a business context, it often refers to the rate at which assets, employees, or inventory are replaced or cycled in a given period. It can also refer to the act of transferring control or possession of something to someone else. Additionally, it may indicate the amount of money taken by a business in a particular period through ordinary trading activities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of turn over in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of turn over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of turn over in a Sentence

  1. Caroline Scherbring:

    I struggled to turn over control of newborn activities, often pushing myself to an overwhelming state of exhaustion, pPD blunted my ability to bond with my newborn — and I felt like I could make up for this by doing it all.

  2. Jerry Nadler:

    If the President thinks the call was perfect and there is nothing to hide then he would turn over the thousands of pages of documents requested by Congress, allow witnesses to testify instead of blocking testimony with baseless privilege claims, and provide any exculpatory information that refutes the overwhelming evidence of his abuse of power.

  3. Ambassador Dean:

    I honestly believe Phnom Penh residents did not do enough. There was something better that could have come out other than a genocide of 1.7 million people, now you must understand, I was born in Germany and suffered under Nazi oppression, so how could I turn over a people to the butcher ?

  4. Steve Bannon:

    You turn over every document, and if he doesn't turn it over, you give him 24 hours. If he doesn't turn it over, I would fire him, and that's not obstruction of justice, that's giving a law enforcement officer a direct order to turn over documents to Capitol Hill, and if he doesn't do it, I would fire him.

  5. Jim Harbaugh:

    You can say it’s bad luck, you can see it’s a fluke, but I don’t think we have the luxury to live there, we’ve got to turn over every stone. We have to look at every possible avenue to do the best we can to make sure this doesn’t happen again. That’s what we plan on doing.


Translations for turn over

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  • OtočteCzech
  • umdrehenGerman
  • entregarSpanish
  • ympäri, pohtia, pyöritellä, pyörittää, luovuttaa, tuottaaFinnish
  • renverser, retournerFrench
  • capovolgere, consegnare, ribaltare, restituireItalian
  • ひっくり返す, 裏返すJapanese
  • перевернуться, переворачивать, перевернуть, переворачиватьсяRussian
  • överlämna, vändaSwedish

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