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turn_about
turn about
See also: turnabout and turn-about
English
Noun
turn about (plural turn abouts)
- (rare) Alternative spelling of turnabout
Verb
- (obsolete, intransitive) To revolve.
- (dated, intransitive) To reverse one's position; to turn round.
- (obsolete, reflexive) To turn (oneself) around.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew ch. 8:
- Jesus tourned him about, and behelde her saynge: Doughter be off goode comforte, thy fayth hath made the safe.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew ch. 8:
- (transitive) To change or reverse the position of.
- (transitive) To turn (something) one way and then another; to move about.