turning

«turning» in Mova's school dictionary: A bend or corner where a road or path changes direction — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (turnings)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bend or corner where a road or path changes direction. tree →

2) The act of turning something round. tree →

sense in the lessons

the bends of a long, winding way in a tale; «the way was full of turnings»

examples

• The road had many turnings. tree →
• Take the second turning on the left. tree →
• The path wound through turnings and bends. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• If you are really worried about a child being unsafe, tell a trusted adult instead of turning it into gossip.
• Streaming plays the next episode automatically to keep you watching; turning off autoplay helps you decide when to stop.
• Pointing the microphone away from the speakers or turning it down stops feedback.
• Condensation is water vapour turning back into liquid on a cold surface, which is why a cold can looks wet outside.
• Decoding (turning letters into words) and comprehension (understanding what you read) are two different skills.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «turning» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.