TURNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turned mean? 

• TURNED (adjective)
  The adjective TURNED has 2 senses:

1. moved around an axis or center

2. in an unpalatable state

  Familiarity information: TURNED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moved around an axis or center

Similar:

inverted; upside-down (being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed)

overturned; upset; upturned (having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom)

reversed (turned inside out and resewn)

revolved; rotated (turned in a circle around an axis)

inside-out; wrong-side-out (with the inside surface on the outside)

Antonym:

unturned (not turned)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an unpalatable state

Synonyms:

off; sour; turned

Context example:

sour milk

Similar:

soured (having turned bad)

 Context examples 

He turned back and walked with me to the Pump Yard.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

My rage is unspeakable when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He looked with sudden suspicion at Madge, and added, "Only you must play fair. No persuadin' after my back is turned."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Pew,” he cried, “they've been before us. Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It also helps control how certain genes are expressed (turned on) in a cell.

(NMP22, NCI Dictionary)

He turned them over and looked at their faces.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I turned it over, and gave an exclamation of surprise.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then they turned over stool samples to the researchers who then looked for microplastics.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

The cook here turned to me, saying that Mrs. Fairfax was waiting for me: so I departed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Other approaches include: • Swapping an abnormal gene for a normal one • Repairing an abnormal gene • Altering the degree to which a gene is turned on or off

(Genes and Gene Therapy, Genetics Home Reference)