What is the meaning of turn out?

verb

  • Be shown or be found to be.
    • usage: "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"
  • Prove to be in the result or end.
    • usage: "It turns out that he was right"
  • Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery.
    • usage: "This factory turns out saws"
  • Result or end.
    • usage: "How will the game turn out"
  • Come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons.
    • usage: "How many people turned out that evening"
  • (v.) ()
  • Put out or expel from a place.
    • usage: "The unruly student was excluded from the game"
  • Come and gather for a public event.
    • usage: "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York"
  • Outfit or equip, as with accessories.
    • usage: "The actors were turned out lavishly"
  • Turn outward.
    • usage: "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
  • Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.
    • usage: "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights"
  • Get up and out of bed.
    • usage: "I get up at 7 A. M. Every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
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