| means | (noun) a single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"
gyration, revolution, rotation |
| means | (noun) a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns
twiddle |
| means | (noun) the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"
rotation, rotary motion |
| means | (verb) move by turning over or rotating; "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"
turn over, roll |
| means | (verb) change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs"
turn |
| means | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
revolve, go around, rotate |
| means | (verb) turn on a pivot
pivot, swivel |
| means | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"
rotate, circumvolve |
| means | (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
whirl, reel, gyrate, spin, spin around |
| means | (verb) make a turn; "turn off at the parking area"
turn off |
| means | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
sheer, curve, slew, cut, trend, swerve, veer, slue |
| means | (verb) change direction; "The road bends"
bend |
| means | (verb) turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"
tump over, overturn, turn over, tip over |
| means | (verb) move around an axis or a center; "The wheels are turning"
turn |
| means | (verb) turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
splay, turn out, spread out, rotate |
| means | (verb) pass to the other side of; "turn the corner"; "move around the obstacle"
move around, turn |
| means | (verb) turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically; "He turned around to face his opponent"; "My conscience told me to turn around before I made a mistake"
swing about, swing around, turn around |
| means | (verb) turn a corner; "the car corners"
corner |
| means | (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
gyrate, coil, spiral |
| means | (verb) change directions as if revolving on a pivot; "They wheeled their horses around and left"
wheel around, wheel |
| means | (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"
twirl, twiddle, whirl, swirl |
| means | (verb) cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion; "drive in screws or bolts"
drive in, screw |
| means | (verb) fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air"
tumble, whirl, whirl around |
| means | (verb) turn like a screw
screw |
| means | (verb) wind around; move along a circular course; "round the bend"
round |
| means | (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
flip, twitch |
| means | (verb) change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
turn, change by reversal, reverse |
| means | (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"
roll, wheel |
| means | (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"
revolve, roll |
| means | (verb) cause to move around or rotate; "turn a key"; "turn your palm this way"
turn |
| means | (verb) cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; "turn a page of a book"
turn, turn over |
| means | (verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry"
turn, grow |
| means | (verb) arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
roll, wrap, twine, wind |
| means | (verb) move an implement through; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil"
stir |
| means | (verb) cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights"
cut, turn off, switch off, turn out |
| means | (verb) undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
change |
| means | (verb) move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
orb, orbit, revolve |
| means | (verb) cause to spin; "spin a coin"
whirl, twirl, birl, spin |
| means | (verb) roll over and over, back and forth
tumble |
| means | (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
turn over, upset, knock over, tip over, tump over, overturn, bowl over |
| means | (verb) undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor"
become, turn |
| means | (verb) become hostile towards; "The dog suddenly turned on the mailman"
turn on |
| means | (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
meander, weave, wander, wind, thread |