Dictionary entry details
• TURN OVER (verb)
Meaning:
Place into the hands or custody of
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
hand; pass on; turn over; pass; reach; give
Context examples:
hand me the spoon, please / Turn the files over to me, please / He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):
transfer (cause to change ownership)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):
commit; confide; entrust; intrust; trust (confer a trust upon)
free; give up; release; relinquish; resign (part with a possession or right)
deliver; fork out; fork over; fork up; get in; hand over; render; turn in (to surrender someone or something to another)
deal (give (a specific card) to a player)
slip; sneak (pass on stealthily)
give (leave with; give temporarily)
entrust; leave (put into the care or protection of someone)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Meaning:
Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
bowl over; knock over; tip over; tump over; overturn; turn over; upset
Context examples:
The cat knocked over the flower vase / the clumsy customer turned over the vase / he tumped over his beer
Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Cause:
overturn; tip over; tump over; turn over (turn from an upright or normal position)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
These cars won't turn over
Meaning:
Move by turning over or rotating
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
roll; turn over
Context examples:
The child rolled down the hill / turn over on your left side
Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):
turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):
rim (roll around the rim of)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Turn up, loosen, or remove earth
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
dig; delve; cut into; turn over
Context examples:
Dig we must / turn over the soil for aeration
Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):
trowel (use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work)
shovel (dig with or as if with a shovel)
spade (dig (up) with a spade)
root; rootle; rout (dig with the snout)
furrow; groove; rut (hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove)
burrow; tunnel (move through by or as by digging)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Do business worth a certain amount of money
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
The company turns over ten million dollars a year
Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):
transact (conduct business)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
turn over; turn
Context example:
turn a page of a book
Hypernyms (to "turn over" 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 over"):
evert (turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward)
leaf (turn over pages)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They turn over the coin
Meaning:
Turn from an upright or normal position
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
overturn; tip over; tump over; turn over
Context examples:
The big vase overturned / The canoe tumped over
Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):
turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):
capsize; turn turtle; turtle (overturn accidentally)
upend (become turned or set on end)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
flip over; flip; turn over
Context examples:
flip over the pork chop / turn over the pancakes
Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):
turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Think about carefully; weigh
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
deliberate; moot; debate; consider; turn over
Context examples:
They considered the possibility of a strike / Turn the proposal over in your mind
Hypernyms (to "turn over" is one way to...):
discuss; hash out; talk over (speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn over"):
see (deliberate or decide)
premeditate (consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand)
debate (argue with one another)
wrestle (engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate)
think twice (consider and reconsider carefully)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE
