Dictionary entry details
• TURN OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Be shown or be found to be
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
prove; turn out; turn up
Context examples:
She proved to be right / The medicine turned out to save her life / She turned up HIV positive
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Prove to be in the result or end
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
It turns out that he was right
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Sentence frame:
It ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
This factory turns out saws
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Result or end
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
come out; turn out
Context example:
How will the game turn out?
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
eventuate (come out in the end)
work out (happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
How many people turned out that evening?
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
appear (come into sight or view)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Bring forth,
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
bear; turn out
Context examples:
The apple tree bore delicious apples this year / The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
fruit (bear fruit)
overbear (bear too much)
crop (yield crops)
seed (bear seeds)
spin off (produce as a consequence or an unplanned result)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Put out or expel from a place
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
turf out; eject; chuck out; expel; boot out; kick out; throw out; exclude; turn out
Context example:
The child was expelled from the classroom
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)
evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)
show the door (ask to leave)
bounce (eject from the premises)
bump; dislodge; displace (remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied)
exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Come and gather for a public event
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Outfit or equip, as with accessories
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
The actors were turned out lavishly
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Turn outward
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
splay; rotate; spread out; turn out
Context examples:
These birds can splay out their toes / ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
turn off; switch off; turn out; cut
Context examples:
Turn off the stereo, please / cut the engine / turn out the lights
Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):
flip; switch; throw (cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):
kill (cause to cease operating)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Get up and out of bed
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
get up; arise; uprise; rise; turn out
Context examples:
I get up at 7 A.M. every day / They rose early / He uprose at night
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue turn out
Antonym:
turn in (prepare for sleep)
