TURN OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turn over mean? 

• TURN OVER (verb)
  The verb TURN OVER has 9 senses:

1. place into the hands or custody of

2. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position

3. move by turning over or rotating

4. turn up, loosen, or remove earth

5. do business worth a certain amount of money

6. cause to move around a center so as to show another side of

7. turn from an upright or normal position

8. turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse

9. think about carefully; weigh

  Familiarity information: TURN OVER used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURN OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place into the hands or custody of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over

Context example:

He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers

Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):

transfer (cause to change ownership)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):

give (leave with; give temporarily)

slip; sneak (pass on stealthily)

deal (give (a specific card) to a player)

deliver; fork out; fork over; fork up; hand over; render; turn in (to surrender someone or something to another)

free; give up; release; relinquish; resign (part with a possession or right)

commit; confide; entrust; intrust; trust (confer a trust upon)

entrust; leave (put into the care or protection of someone)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bowl over; knock over; overturn; tip over; tump over; turn over; upset

Context example:

he tumped over his beer

Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Cause:

overturn; tip over; tump over; turn over (turn from an upright or normal position)

Verb group:

overturn; tip over; tump over; turn over (turn from an upright or normal position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

These cars won't turn over

Derivation:

turnover (the act of upsetting something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move by turning over or rotating

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

roll; turn over

Context example:

turn over on your left side

Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):

turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)

Verb group:

revolve; roll (cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):

rim (roll around the rim of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Turn up, loosen, or remove earth

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cut into; delve; dig; turn over

Context example:

turn over the soil for aeration

Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):

furrow; groove; rut (hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove)

root; rootle; rout (dig with the snout)

spade (dig (up) with a spade)

shovel (dig with or as if with a shovel)

trowel (use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work)

burrow; tunnel (move through by or as by digging)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Do business worth a certain amount of money

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The company turns over ten million dollars a year

Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):

transact (conduct business)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

turnover (the volume measured in dollars)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Cause to move around a center so as to show another side of

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

turn; turn over

Context example:

turn a page of a book

Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):

evert (turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward)

leaf (turn over pages)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They turn over the coin

Sense 7

Meaning:

Turn from an upright or normal position

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

overturn; tip over; tump over; turn over

Context example:

The canoe tumped over

Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):

turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)

Verb group:

bowl over; knock over; overturn; tip over; tump over; turn over; upset (cause to overturn from an upright or normal position)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):

capsize; turn turtle; turtle (overturn accidentally)

upend (become turned or set on end)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

turnover (the act of upsetting something)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

flip; flip over; turn over

Context example:

turn over the pancakes

Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):

turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

turnover (a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Think about carefully; weigh

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

consider; debate; deliberate; moot; turn over

Context example:

Turn the proposal over in your mind

Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):

discuss; hash out; talk over (speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion)

Verb group:

consider; study (give careful consideration to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):

premeditate (consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand)

debate (argue with one another)

wrestle (engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate)

think twice (consider and reconsider carefully)

see (deliberate or decide)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE

 Context examples 

I'd like to turn over to you a thousand dollars of what I don't value for what you gave me that night and which was beyond price.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Don't talk that way, turn over a new leaf and begin again, Teddy, my son.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I will read it to you, and in return you must turn over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I turn over the pages, I see my notes upon the repulsive story of the red leech and the terrible death of Crosby, the banker.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Turning over, as we are about to turn over, an entirely new leaf; and falling back, as we are now in the act of falling back, for a Spring of no common magnitude; it is important to my sense of self-respect, besides being an example to my son, that these arrangements should be concluded as between man and man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then there were the pebbles and stones that turned under him when he trod upon them; and from them he came to know that the things not alive were not all in the same state of stable equilibrium as was his cave—also, that small things not alive were more liable than large things to fall down or turn over.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)