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# turning

«turning» in Mova's school dictionary: **A bend or corner where a road or path changes direction** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (turnings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bend or corner where a road or path changes direction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turning/#m1)

2) The act of turning something round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turning/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the bends of a long, winding way in a tale; «the way was full of turnings»

### examples

- The road had many turnings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turning/#x1)
- Take the second turning on the left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turning/#x2)
- The path wound through turnings and bends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turning/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [If you are really worried about a child being unsafe, tell a trusted adult instead of turning it into gossip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/21/)
- [Streaming plays the next episode automatically to keep you watching; turning off autoplay helps you decide when to stop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/13/)
- [Pointing the microphone away from the speakers or turning it down stops feedback.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/14/)
- [Condensation is water vapour turning back into liquid on a cold surface, which is why a cold can looks wet outside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing/8/)
- [Decoding (turning letters into words) and comprehension (understanding what you read) are two different skills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «turning» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turning/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.