BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Turn
- the difference between a market maker's bid and offer prices
Wiktionary Definition for: Turn
- To rotate (in driving usually 90°); spin.
- Ex: '''''Turn''' the knob clockwise.''
- To position by rotating, spinning or flipping.
- Ex: '''''Turn''' back the covers.''
- To change; transform.
- Ex: ''The leaves '''turn''' color in autumn.''
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- Ex: ''The prisoners '''turned''' on the warden.''
- To machine or shape by rotating the workpiece against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- Ex: ''She '''turned''' the table legs with care and precision.''
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- Ex: ''This milk has '''turned;''' it smells awful.''
- ''(usually with "over"):'' To complete.
- Ex: ''They say they can '''turn''' the parts in two days.''
- # cricket (''of a bowler'') to make the ball move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- # cricket (''of a ball'') to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- #(''professional wrestling'') In professional wrestling, to change personalities such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- A rotate rotation or spin.
- Ex:''Give the handle a full '''turn,''' then pull up on it.''
- The chance to use an item shared in sequence with others.
- Ex: ''They took '''turns''' playing with the new toy.''
- A figure in music, often notated ''~'', consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again (see w:Ornament.)
- ''(usually with "around"):'' The time required to complete a project.
- Ex: ''They quote a three-day '''turn''' on parts like those.''
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- Ex:''She took a '''turn''' for the worse.''
- # cricket a sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight)
- # poker The fourth communal card in Texas hold'em poker
- #(electric) the basic coil element that forms a single conducting loop comprised of one insulated conductor.
- first-person singular present tense of turnen; perform gymnastics
- tower
- #gymnastics
- tower
Additional Resources
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- News items 2009-08-18
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- News items 2009-10-28
- To everything, turn-by-turn.(TeleNav GPS Navigation)(BlackBerry)(Brief Article)
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- Research articles 2005-09-01
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- Research articles 2007-03-01
- I WOULD NOT TURN IN THE OMAGH BOMBERS; EXCLUSIVE: BBC writer's shock
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- Research articles 2000-10-15
- Herrick Lake turn lane coming, but not yet.(Neighbor)(Traffic Q & A)
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- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Industry Moves: Turn Gets New CEO In Bill Demas
- Ad network and targeting firm Turn has promoted Bill Demas to CEO. Demas pictured joined the company last December as president and COO; he’d been a board member since 2007. Demas is replacing Turn co-founder Jim Barnett, who will continue on as Chairman. Demas has over two decades of...
- External links 2009-09-10
- Teletrac creates turn-by-turn automated navigation system.(NEWS AND TRENDS)
- Teletrac, Inc. has announced the availability of the FleetDirector Turn-By-Turn vehicle-routing and navigation system. The TBT software module provides speed-calibrated, real-time, turn-by-turn, verbal directions to guide drivers to their selected destinations. As an integrated component of FleetDirector's proprietary eClient fleet-management software suite, TBT allows dispatchers...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Google Maps Navigation takes a turn
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- News items 2009-10-28
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- Research articles 2007-07-18
- U-Turn Media Group and Grupo ADI team up to offer a new enhanced version of their mobile tourist guides; Following the successful launch of the mobile tourist guides at last year's 3GSM World Congress, U-Turn and Grupo ADI will be distributing a new offli
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- Research articles 2008-02-05
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- Klein Tools said it has added a new QTR-Turn NM cable stripper /cutter (Cat. No. K1412-3) with Klein-Kurve handles to its existing line of strippers and cutters. The new cable stripper/cutter utilizes exclusive QTR-Turn technology to quickly remove the outer jacket of nonmetallic NM cable. The user places the cable...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Turn Key Services to Resell Artera Turbo; Available To Consumers At www.turn-keyservices.com Portal
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- Research articles 2003-02-20
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- Outlook Tip: Turn an E-mail Into an Appointment
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- TeleNav Launches Turn-by-Turn GPS Navigation on the RIM BlackBerry 7100i; Continues Focus to Bring Real-Time Navigation to Consumer Market
- SANTA CLARA, Calif. & WATERLOO, Ontario -- TeleNav Inc. today announced the availability of TeleNav's GPS Navigator, a Java-based GPS navigation application that offers visual and audible, turn-by-turn driving directions and mapping, on the BlackBerry 7100iTM from Research In Motion RIM (Nasdaq:RIMM).
- Research articles 2006-02-13
- Space savings. (Conveyors).(PSC Flo-Turn)(Brief Article)
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- Research articles 2006-02-08
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- Research articles 2006-09-12
