Turning

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: turn=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Turning, n. 

•  The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a flexure; a meander.  [1913 Webster]

  "Through paths and turnings often trod by day."  [1913 Webster]
•  The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.  [1913 Webster]

  "It is preached at every turning."  [1913 Webster]
•  Deviation from the way or proper course.  Harmar.  [1913 Webster]
•  Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various forms by means of a lathe and cutting tools.  [1913 Webster]
•  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned; -- usually used in the plural.  [1913 Webster]
•  A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.  [1913 Webster]

Turning and boring mill, a kind of lathe having a vertical spindle and horizontal face plate, for turning and boring large work. -- Turning bridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. -- Turning engine, an engine lathe. -- Turning lathe, a lathe used by turners to shape their work. -- Turning pair. See the Note under Pair, n. -- Turning point, the point upon which a question turns, and which decides a case.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Turning, n.
1 a a road that branches off another. b a place where this occurs.
2 a use of the lathe. b (in pl.) chips or shavings from a lathe.

Idiom

turning-circle the smallest circle in which a vehicle can turn without reversing. turning-point a point at which a decisive change occurs.

THESAURUS

Turning

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Turning

Circuition

N circuition, circulation, turn, curvet, excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation, northwest passage, circuit, turning, wrench, evolution, coil, corkscrew, turning, circuitous, circumforaneous, circumfluent, round about, circuition, circulation, turn, curvet, excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation, northwest passage, circuit, turning, wrench, evolution, coil, corkscrew, turning, circuitous, circumforaneous, circumfluent, round about.