TURNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Turner mean? 

• TURNER (noun)
  The noun TURNER has 8 senses:

1. United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)

2. United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)

3. English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)

4. United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)

5. a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein

6. a lathe operator

7. one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope

8. cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food

  Familiarity information: TURNER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Nat Turner; Turner

Instance hypernyms:

freedom fighter; insurgent; insurrectionist; rebel (a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions))

slave (a person who is owned by someone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Hubert Turner; Turner

Instance hypernyms:

endocrinologist (physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Joseph Mallord William Turner; Turner

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Frederick Jackson Turner; Turner

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A tumbler who is a member of a turnverein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("turner" is a kind of...):

tumbler (a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.)

Holonyms ("turner" is a member of...):

turnverein (a club of tumblers or gymnasts)

Derivation:

turn (accomplish by rotating)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A lathe operator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("turner" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Derivation:

turn (shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel)

Sense 7

Meaning:

One of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("turner" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

food turner; turner

Hypernyms ("turner" is a kind of...):

cooking utensil; cookware (a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "turner"):

fish slice (a food turner with a broad blade used for turning or serving fish or other food that is cooked in a frying pan)

pancake turner (turner for serving or turning pancakes)

spatula (a turner with a narrow flexible blade)

Derivation:

turn (cause to move around a center so as to show another side of)

 Context examples 

I have been to Turner's about your mess; it is all in a way to be done.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I see the direction in which all this points. The culprit is— “Mr. John Turner,” cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor.

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

Clinical signs of the symmetrical form are identical to those of Turner syndrome and include bilateral webbing of the neck and edema of the extremities.

(Bonnevie-Ullrich Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Commonly observed at birth in Turner Syndrome and NOONAN SYNDROME; EDEMA of the extremities usually recedes by one year and is an early sign of Turner syndrome, especially in female neonates.

(Bonnevie-Ullrich Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Sketches of boxers, of ballet-girls, and of racehorses alternated with a sensuous Fragonard, a martial Girardet, and a dreamy Turner.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Swarthy boys and dark-eyed Madonnas, staring at you from one corner of the studio, suggested Murillo; oily brown shadows of faces with a lurid streak in the wrong place, meant Rembrandt; buxom ladies and dropiscal infants, Rubens; and Turner appeared in tempests of blue thunder, orange lightning, brown rain, and purple clouds, with a tomato-colored splash in the middle, which might be the sun or a bouy, a sailor's shirt or a king's robe, as the spectator pleased.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner,” said Sherlock Holmes.

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

I enjoyed the trips to Hampton Court and the Kensington Museum more than anything else, for at Hampton I saw Raphael's cartoons, and at the Museum, rooms full of pictures by Turner, Lawrence, Reynolds, Hogarth, and the other great creatures.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner made his money.

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

“I cannot admire his taste,” I remarked, “if it is indeed a fact that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as this Miss Turner.”

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