Talk:turn

What about this meaning: "I just turned 18", or "not until you turn 18". How to formulate that one?

1. (intransitive) To become of (a) certain age

   I just turned 18

And what about the meaning "to focus/concetrate on". Check this headline for an example. It would be like this:

1. (transitive) To focus on

   Iraqis' thoughts turn to matters of weight.

   He turned our attention to... etc.

Any help would be appreciated guitardemon (user talk) 14:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

We have those. The first sense is "To become", and the second one is "To change direction or orientation". Equinox ◑ 14:08, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

OK, thanks! I asked because I wanted to add the Macedonian and Greek equivalents of to become of a certain age, but the thing is that in both Greek and Macedonian the verb that is used to say "I turned 18", is different that the verb used for "to become", so if I add the translations to the "To become" part, it might be confusing (because as I said it's only used for age, and 'to become sth' is a different verb). Do I add both translations in the same section with the meaning in parenthesis for each one of them, or I should just let it go? :)

Or maybe the age meaning should be listed as a different meaning because in quite a few languages I speak "to turn brown" and "to turn 18" is expressed using different verbs. guitardemon (user talk) 14:31, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

We try to remind ourselves that we need to be a great and usable monolingual English dictionary, a great English dictionary of all words in all languages, and a translating dictionary from English to other languages. To offer a sense to facilitate translation (in an unknown number of languages) could lead us to become very hard to use as a monolingual dictionary. It is quite possible to include all the Macedonian and Greek words required to accommodate the "become" sense in the translation table, separated by commas, with qualifiers in italics and/or parentheses. DCDuring TALK 15:29, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

I also think that a separation of the sense concerning aging is recommendable, since in Bulgarian and Russian the verbs for I turned x (years). do not have much in common with the notion of acquisition - навърших х години and мне исполнилось х лет (and the Bulgarian verb is transitive unlike become ! ). The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 21:37, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

I tried to find the translations for "It is my turn" (English) = "Ich bin dran" (German) etc.

Vampires

In vampire fiction (bleurgghh...) it is often said that somebody has been "turned" if they have been bitten etc. and made into a vampire. But it will just say "he/she was turned". Possible subsense there. Equinox ◑ 22:57, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

There’s a similar concept in zombie fiction: becoming a zombie after being bitter. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 23:00, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done Equinox ◑ 11:48, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

turn to account

does turn to account deserve an entry of its own? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:37, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

to take it in turn(s) to do sth

Are the singular and plural used as alternatives here? to take it in turn(s) to do sth --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:08, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

spell of illness

A short period of feeling unwell or faint
She had a nasty turn, but she's OK now.

--Backinstadiums (talk) 11:21, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Turn (noun) in academia

How about the addition of 'turn' in the sense of "the Cultural Turn" or the "Linguistic Turn" meaning a sort of new wave of research in academia

PitterPatter533 (talk) 18:04, 6 November 2021 (UTC)