turning

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/    美 /ˈtɝ.nɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A turn or deviation from a straight course. Ireland,UK
    — Take the second turning on the left.
  2. At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
  3. The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
  4. The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
    — Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.
  5. One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
    — Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president.
  6. Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe. plural,plural-only
    — The turnings get into your trouser turnups!
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of turn form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — The Earth is turning about its axis as we speak.

词形变化

turnings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
by-turning engine turning it's a long road that has no turning table-turning turning approver turning away turning-away turning-beam turning center turning circle turning evil turning gear turning joint turning number turning point turning post turning rest turning steel turning tool upturning woodturning

词源

词源 1
From Middle English turnyng, turnynge, from Old English tyrning, turnung, equivalent to turn + -ing.
词源 2
From Middle English turninge, turnynge, turninde, turnand, turnende, from Old English tyrnende, turniende, present participle of Old English tyrnan, turnian (“to turn”). Equivalent to turn + -ing.
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