turn oververb

• 1

  To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.

  • Turn over the box and look at the bottom.
  • The brakes were applied immediately, but the engine ran into a sand drag at approximately 20 m.p.h., plunged down the embankment, and turned over on its side at the bottom.
• 2

  To relinquish; give back.

  • They turned over the evidence to the authorities.
• 3

  To transfer.

  • But what is to be done with our manufacturing population […] This one thing, of doing for them by ‘underselling all people,’ and filling our own bursten pockets and appetites by the road; and turning over all care for any ‘population,’ or human or divine consideration except cash only, to the winds, with a “Laissez-faire” and the rest of it: this is evidently not the thing.
• 4

  To produce, complete, or cycle through.

  • They can turn over about three hundred units per hour.
• 5

  businessTo generate (a certain amount of money from sales).

  • The business turned over several million last year.
• 6

  To mull, ponder

  • Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff
• 7

  To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.

• 8

  hobbieslifestylesportsTo give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).

  • The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games.