Turning

Noun

 * 1)  A turn or deviation from a straight course
 * 2) * Take the second turning on the left
 * 3) The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe
 * 4)  The shavings produced by turning something on a lathe
 * 5) * The turnings get into your trouser turnups

Derived terms

 * turning point

Verb
turning


 * 1) * The Earth is turning about its axis as we speak.
 * 2) * He made wooden soldiers by turning them on a hand lathe.
 * 1) * He made wooden soldiers by turning them on a hand lathe.

Adjectives for Turning
incessant; gentle; fateful; acute; accurate.

Thesaurus
S-curve, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, about-face, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, angle, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, axial motion, bend, bending, bias, bow, bowing, bowling, branching off, centrifugation, circling, circuition, circuitous, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambages, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circumgyration, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circummigration, circumnavigation, circumrotation, circumvolution, conflexure, convolution, convolutional, corner, crinkle, crinkling, crook, curve, declination, deflection, departing, departure, desultory, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, digression, digressive, discursion, discursive, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errant, errantry, erratic, excursion, excursive, excursus, exorbitation, flection, flex, flexuose, flexuosity, flexuous, flexuousness, flexure, full circle, geanticline, geosyncline, gyrating, gyration, gyre, gyring, hairpin, hairpin turn, indirect, indirection, inflection, intorsion, involute, involuted, involution, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meander, meandering, meandrous, obliquity, orbit, orbiting, out-of-the-way, oxbow, pererration, pivoting, planetary, rambling, reeling, reflection, reverse, reversion, revolution, revolving, right-about, rivose, rivulation, rivulose, roll, rolling, rotating, rotation, rotational motion, roundabout, roundaboutness, rounding, roving, ruffled, serpentine, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sinuate, sinuation, sinuose, sinuosity, sinuous, sinuousness, skew, slant, slinkiness, snakiness, snaky, spin, spinning, spiral, spiraling, stray, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, swirling, swiveling, tack, torsion, torsional, tortile, tortility, tortuosity, tortuous, tortuousness, trolling, trundling, turbination, turn, turnabout, twirling, twist, twisting, twisty, undirected, undulation, vagrant, variation, veer, veering, volte-face, volutation, volution, wandering, warp, wave, waving, wheeling, whir, whirling, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, yaw, zigzag

Noun

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 * Finnish: sorvaus, sorvaaminen