Definitions for TURN ON
turn on

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. turn-onverb

   something causing excitement or stimulating interest

2. switch on, turn onverb

   cause to operate by flipping a switch

   "switch on the light"; "turn on the stereo"

3. depend on, devolve on, depend upon, ride, turn on, hinge on, hinge uponverb

   be contingent on

   "The outcomes rides on the results of the election"; "Your grade will depends on your homework"

4. turn onverb

   produce suddenly or automatically

   "Turn on the charm"; "turn on the waterworks"

5. turn onverb

   become hostile towards

   "The dog suddenly turned on the mailman"

6. agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge upverb

   cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

   "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

7. arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind upverb

   stimulate sexually

   "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

8. trip, trip out, turn on, get offverb

   get high, stoned, or drugged

   "He trips every weekend"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. turn onverb

   To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject.

2. turn onverb

   To set a flow of (water, gas, electricity etc.) running

3. turn onverb

   to power up (a device), to start, to cause to start operating.

4. turn onverb

   To start operating; to power up, to become on.

5. turn onverb

   To violently rebel against; to suddenly attack.

6. turn onverb

   To fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).

7. turn onverb

   To sexually arouse.

8. turn onverb

   to cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Produce
   • Switch

How to pronounce TURN ON?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say TURN ON in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of TURN ON in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of TURN ON in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of TURN ON in a Sentence

1. Nan Thomas:

   We could hear it in her voice, she was getting desperate, [Even with] me, who was going to her window to talk to her every weekend, my mother could no longer raise the blinds, she could no longer answer the phone so I could talk to her through the window. She forgot how to dial the phones, she forgot to turn on and off her TV.

2. Corey Saylor:

   Daesh wants Americans to turn on each other, and with November seeing the highest number of mosque incidents since we started keeping data, it seems they are getting their wish.

3. Claudio Semini:

   If we have a moving mass in front, that creates also a disturbance in the legs. So what we're developing is algorithms that can take into account that external disturbance from the payload or from the arm. And then servo the legs, control the legs in a way to compensate for these disturbances. And we've managed to do this very well; there's an example where we moved the arm left and right relatively fast, and if we don't use the smart controller the robot moves a lot. But if we turn on the smart controller, the torque and forces in the cylinders and joints are optimized so that the robot is relatively firm and rejects all these external disturbances.

4. Simon Maddocks:

   It's come up all around the house but my ability to turn on irrigation systems from my phone in Darwin and the fact that I had neighbors patrolling with fire units, I think we're lucky we got away with a house.

5. Ryan Reynolds:

   When the curtain opens, I turn on this knucklehead, and he kind of takes over and goes away again once I walk off set, that’s that great self-defense mechanism.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=TURN ON
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Turn_on