TURNED ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turned on mean? 

• TURNED ON (adjective)
  The adjective TURNED ON has 1 sense:

1. feeling great sexual desire

  Familiarity information: TURNED ON used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURNED ON (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling great sexual desire

Synonyms:

aroused; horny; randy; ruttish; steamy; turned on

Context example:

feeling horny

Similar:

sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)

 Context examples 

These enzymes add or remove chemical tags, which indirectly controls if genes are turned on or off.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

Recent Cambridge-led advances in next-generation sequencing mean that scientists can now track which genes are turned on (being expressed) throughout a whole organism or tissue, at the resolution of individual cells.

(Scientists find new type of cell that helps tadpoles’ tails regenerate, University of Cambridge)

He abruptly turned on his heel and started forward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

By looking at the expression of genes known to be turned on during viral infection, they observed that one chemical, camptothecin (CPT), reduced virus-induced gene activation.

(Drug might help treat sepsis, NIH)

Holmes turned on his heel with a gesture of disgust.

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

He waved his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the crowd.

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

However, our understanding of the transcriptome—when and where genes are turned on—in the developing brain has been limited.

(An Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, NIH)

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

(NMP22, NCI Dictionary)

And with that he turned on his heel and rejoined the other two.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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)