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"
- synonyms: turn out
- Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery.
- usage: "This factory turns out saws"
- synonyms: turn out
- 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"
- synonyms: turn out
- (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"
- synonyms: turn out
- Outfit or equip, as with accessories.
- usage: "The actors were turned out lavishly"
- synonyms: turn out
- Turn outward.
- usage: "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
- synonyms: turn out, splay, spread out, rotate
- Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.
- usage: "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights"
- synonyms: switch off, cut, turn off, turn out
- Get up and out of bed.
- usage: "I get up at 7 A. M. Every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
adjective
- Dressed well or smartly.
- usage: "the girls were well turned out and smart"
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