📖 T — The English dictionary · page 55

turbulent — Everyday, meaning 1: Turbulent means wild, rough and disorderly, with a lot of movement.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Turbulent water is rough and tossed by strong waves or currents.↗ Example: The turbulent sea tossed the little boat.↗ · He sailed on vaster and more turbulent waves.↗ · The class became turbulent when the teacher left the room.↗

tureen — Everyday, meaning 1: A large deep bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A similar dish for serving vegetables or sauce.↗ Example: The waiter carried a steaming tureen of soup to the table.↗ · «Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, waiting in a hot tureen!»↗ · Gran's best china tureen is only used at Christmas.↗ · Lift the lid of the tureen carefully – it's hot.↗ · The giant poured soup from the tureen into his bowl.↗ · The tureen was painted with blue flowers.↗ · You notice that soup-tureen in the middle of the table?↗

turf — Everyday, meaning 1: Short grass and the layer of soil and roots under it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A square piece of this, cut to lay on the ground to make a lawn.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Your own area or place that you feel belongs to you, such as a gang's streets or a team's home ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To cover ground with turf.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (UK, informal verb) «turf out»: to throw someone or something out roughly.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Horse racing in general, «the turf».↗ Everyday, meaning 7: Turf can also mean dried peat cut from a bog and burned as fuel.↗ Example: The gardeners laid fresh turf on the football pitch.↗ · Dad bought twenty rolls of turf for the back garden.↗ · The team played well on their home turf.↗ · Keep off the new turf until it grows roots.↗ · The caretaker turfed us out of the hall at five.↗ · Two gangs fought a turf war in the film.↗ · Artificial turf does not need mowing.↗ · Next day Jack was to go clamp turf on the bog.↗

turkey — Everyday, meaning 1: A turkey is a large bird kept on farms, with a red wobbly piece of skin on its neck.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Turkey is the meat of this bird, often eaten at Christmas or Thanksgiving.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Turkey (with a capital T) is a country between Europe and Asia.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, US) A turkey is a failure, like a very bad film or show.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Go cold turkey» (informal) means to stop a habit suddenly and completely.↗ Example: We had roast turkey for Christmas dinner.↗ · The turkey gobbled at the farmer.↗ · Cook a turkey for 40 minutes for each kilogram.↗ · A turkey sandwich is my favourite lunch.↗ · Istanbul is the biggest city in Turkey.↗ · That film was a real turkey; nobody liked it.↗ · Dad gave up chocolate cold turkey.↗ · He was much larger than a turkey.↗

turkic — Everyday, meaning 1: Turkic describes a family of related languages, including Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uyghur and Tatar.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It also describes the peoples who speak these languages and their cultures.↗ Example: Turkish and Kazakh are both Turkic languages.↗ · Turkic peoples live from Turkey to Siberia.↗ · Many Turkic languages are written in Latin or Cyrillic letters.↗ · The Crimean Tatars speak a Turkic language.↗ · Words in Turkic languages are built by adding many endings.↗ · Uzbek is the Turkic language with the most speakers after Turkish.↗

turkish — Everyday, meaning 1: Turkish means from or to do with Turkey (Türkiye), a country partly in Europe and partly in Asia, or its people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Turkish is the language spoken in Turkey and by many people in Cyprus and around the world.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: It is used in names of foods and things.↗ e.g. Turkish delight (a soft sweet dusted with sugar), Turkish coffee, a Turkish bath.↗ Example: She speaks Turkish and English at home.↗ · Edmund ate Turkish delight in the story.↗ · We went to a Turkish restaurant for kebabs.↗ · Turkish coffee is very strong and thick.↗ · Istanbul is the biggest Turkish city.↗ · Turkish uses the same alphabet as English with some extra letters.↗ · It was easy to believe after this that the princess was really going to marry a Turkish angel.↗

turmeric — Everyday, meaning 1: Turmeric is a bright yellow-orange spice made from the dried and ground root of a plant in the ginger family.↗ It is used in curries and to colour food.↗ Example: Turmeric makes the rice yellow.↗ · Mum added a spoon of turmeric to the curry.↗ · Turmeric stained my fingers orange.↗ · Turmeric comes from a root, like ginger.↗ · In science, turmeric paper turned red with soap.↗ · Be careful, turmeric stains are hard to wash out.↗

turmoil — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A turmoil is a state of great confusion, worry or noisy disorder.↗ Example: Better is little with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure and turmoil therewith.↗ (Writings PRO.15.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Surely man walketh as a mere semblance; surely for vanity they are in turmoil; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.↗ (Writings PSA.39.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; nought cometh from them, nor from their tumult, nor from their turmoil, neither is there eminency among them.↗ (Prophets EZK.7.11, JPS 1917)↗ · The town was in turmoil after the storm.↗ · I looked down upon the turmoil of Paris.↗ · Amid all the noise and turmoil, she felt watched by mild eyes.↗

turn — Everyday, meaning 1: To turn means to move around a centre: the wheel turns.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To turn means to change direction: turn left.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A turn is your chance to do something in a game or in order: it's your turn.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To turn means to become: the leaves turn red; she turned 9 (became 9 years old).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To turn a page is to move it to see the next one.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A turn is a movement around: a quarter turn, a half turn, a full turn.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: To turn something on means to switch it on, like a light or a machine.↗ Example: Each player has 3 turns.↗ · She turned 20 pages.↗ · The wheel makes 10 turns a minute.↗ · Tom turned 9 last week.↗ · A quarter turn is a right angle.↗ · Take turns on the swing.↗ · Turn left at the corner.↗ · Please turn off the lights when you leave.↗ · In autumn the leaves turn orange.↗ · "Let's turn it on," she said.↗ · 'Ye have compassed this mountain long enough; turn you northward.↗ (Torah DEU.2.3, JPS 1917)↗ · and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; (Torah GEN.27.44, JPS 1917)↗ · Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people.↗ (Torah EXO.32.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Doth one turn away, and not return?↗ (Prophets JER.8.4, JPS 1917)↗ · He that pursueth words, they turn against him.↗ (Writings PRO.19.7, JPS 1917)↗ · When I would turn the captivity of My people, (Prophets HOS.6.11, JPS 1917)↗

turnest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «turnest» means «you turn», a form of «turn»: To turn means to move around a centre: the wheel turns.↗ Example: If thou turnest to flee, he will overtake thee.↗ (The Lilac Fairy Book)

turneth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «turneth» means «turns», a form of «turn»: To turn means to move around a centre: the wheel turns.↗ Example: And the soul that turneth unto the ghosts, and unto the familiar spirits, to go astray after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.↗ (Torah LEV.20.6, JPS 1917)

turning — Everyday, meaning 1: A bend or corner where a road or path changes direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The act of turning something round.↗ Example: The road had many turnings.↗ · Take the second turning on the left.↗ · The path wound through turnings and bends.↗ · The door is turning upon its hinges, and the sluggard is still upon his bed.↗ (Writings PRO.26.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the Turning, and fortified them.↗ (Writings 2CH.26.9, JPS 1917)↗ · After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion, from the house of Azariah unto the Turning and unto the corner.↗ (Writings NEH.3.24, JPS 1917)↗

turnip — Everyday, meaning 1: A turnip is a round root vegetable with white flesh and a white and purple skin.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK informal, old) Calling someone a turnip means they are stupid.↗ Example: Grandad grows turnips in his garden.↗ · The Enormous Turnip was too big to pull up.↗ · We had mashed turnip with our dinner.↗ · Sheep eat turnips in winter.↗ · Children carved scary faces in turnips for Halloween.↗ · A turnip is a root vegetable.↗ · Go! count the turnips in yonder meadow.↗

turnkey — Everyday, meaning 1: A jailer who unlocks and locks the doors of a prison.↗ Example: The turnkey locked the cell door.↗ · The turnkey spoke to his prisoners.↗ · I ran into the house of the turnkey.↗

turnout — Everyday, meaning 1: Turnout is the number of people who come to an event, or who vote in an election.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, old-fashioned) A turnout can also mean the way someone is dressed.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A turnout is a place at the side of a road where cars can pull over (USA).↗ Example: There was a great turnout for the school fair.↗ · Voter turnout was 67 per cent.↗ · Despite the rain, the turnout at the match was good.↗ · Low turnout means many people did not vote.↗ · We were pleased with the turnout at the bake sale.↗ · The truck stopped at a turnout on the mountain road.↗

turnpike — Everyday, meaning 1: A road with a toll gate, where travellers paid money to pass.↗ Example: The toll-keeper stood at the turnpike gate.↗ · Each carriage paid a toll at the turnpike.↗ · The coach stopped at the turnpike.↗

turnspit — Everyday, meaning 1: A servant, or a small dog, who turned a roasting spit over a kitchen fire.↗ Example: The turnspit ran after the chariot.↗ · The cook called the turnspit to turn the roast.↗ · The turnspit was covered with mud.↗

turntable — Everyday, meaning 1: A turntable is the round flat part of a record player that spins the record.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A turntable is any flat round platform that turns, such as one that turns trains around or a spinning plate in a microwave.↗ Example: Put the bowl in the middle of the microwave turntable.↗ · Grandma's old turntable plays vinyl records.↗ · The DJ spun records on two turntables.↗ · The steam engine was turned around on a turntable.↗ · The cake sits on a turntable so you can ice all sides.↗ · The turntable spins round and round.↗

turquoise — Everyday, meaning 1: A blue-green stone used in jewellery.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A blue-green colour.↗ Example: The clasp was set with turquoise.↗ · She wore a turquoise ring.↗ · The sea looked turquoise in the sun.↗

turret — Everyday, meaning 1: A small tower on the top of a castle or large building.↗ Example: The giantess looked out from the turret.↗ · The castle had four turrets.↗ · The great clock was in the turret.↗ · Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with turrets, whereon there hang a thousand shields, all the armour of the mighty men.↗ (Writings SNG.4.4, JPS 1917)↗ · If she be a wall, we will build upon her a turret of silver; and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.↗ (Writings SNG.8.9, JPS 1917)↗

turtle — Everyday, meaning 1: A turtle is a reptile with a hard shell on its back that covers its body; many turtles live in the sea or in rivers and ponds.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In American English, turtle is often used for any animal with this kind of shell, including tortoises.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A small wild dove, not a reptile.↗ Example: The sea turtle laid her eggs in the sand.↗ · Turtles pull their heads into their shells.↗ · Baby turtles crawl to the sea at night.↗ · A turtle must come up to breathe air.↗ · Plastic in the ocean harms turtles.↗ · Our class pet is a turtle called Speedy.↗ · The boat turned turtle in the storm.↗ · Turtles have no teeth but a sharp beak.↗ · The movement, gentle though it was, woke the turtle.↗ · And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for; (Torah LEV.14.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And if his offering to the LORD be a burnt-offering of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons.↗ (Torah LEV.1.14, JPS 1917)↗ · and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as his means suffice for; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering.↗ (Torah LEV.14.22, JPS 1917)↗ · O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the life of Thy poor for ever.↗ (Writings PSA.74.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; (Writings SNG.2.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the ordinance of the LORD.↗ (Prophets JER.8.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for;↗ (Torah LEV.14.30, JPS 1917) · "Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly!↗ (Grimm's Fairy Stories) · And if his offering to the LORD be a burnt-offering of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons.↗ (Torah LEV.1.14, JPS 1917)

turtledove — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A turtledove is a small, gentle wild bird like a pigeon.↗ Example: And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.↗ (Torah NUM.6.10, JPS 1917)↗