Turning: Definition and part of speech

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Turning

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Turn
  2. n. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.
  3. n. The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.
  4. n. Deviation from the way or proper course.
  5. n. Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
  6. n. The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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