What does turn over mean?
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turn over
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Princeton's WordNet
pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, giveverb
place into the hands or custody of
"hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
overturn, tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, bowl over, tump oververb
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"
roll, turn oververb
move by turning over or rotating
"The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"
dig, delve, cut into, turn oververb
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
"Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"
turn oververb
do business worth a certain amount of money
"The company turns over ten million dollars a year"
turn, turn oververb
cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
"turn a page of a book"
overturn, turn over, tip over, tump oververb
turn from an upright or normal position
"The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"
flip, flip over, turn oververb
turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
"flip over the pork chop"; "turn over the pancakes"
consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberateverb
think about carefully; weigh
"They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
Wiktionary
turn oververb
To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
turn oververb
To relinquish; give back.
turn oververb
To transfer.
turn oververb
To produce, complete, or cycle through.
turn oververb
To mull, ponder
turn oververb
To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
turn oververb
To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
Etymology: to turn + over
Wikipedia
Turn Over
Turn Over is the first live album of the Japanese rock group Show-Ya. It is a collection of live songs recorded during concerts from the "Date Line Tour" and "Immigration Tour" in 1987, and from the "Tour of the Immigrant" in 1988. The album reached position No. 36 in the Japanese Oricon chart.
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turn over
Turn over generally refers to the act of flipping, rotating, or reversing the position of an object so its opposite side is facing upward. In a business context, it often refers to the rate at which assets, employees, or inventory are replaced or cycled in a given period. It can also refer to the act of transferring control or possession of something to someone else. Additionally, it may indicate the amount of money taken by a business in a particular period through ordinary trading activities.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of turn over in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of turn over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of turn over in a Sentence
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson:
We're in the middle of a serious crime fight, and we're finally making real progress, so I don’t know how you can turn over crime strategy and every policing decision to some group of people who have absolutely no law enforcement experience.
If Mr. Barr agrees to turn over what we've requested in a reasonable way, no one on the committee is interested in moving forward.
All I can say is the Justice Department has to turn over the documents, and The President can decide whether Justice Department should or not. The President should make that decision.
Every time we have faced adversity whether it is down in games or lose guys, everyone just steps up, we have to do the same things (going home) we did tonight, try to dictate the play, make them turn over pucks.
Is it premature to ask what happens to Amazon when Jeff Bezos chooses to turn over the day-to-day running of the company he founded? his announced divorce gives me pause for thought.
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