turningnoun詞源 1/ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/

• 1

  A turn or deviation from a straight course.

  • Take the second turning on the left.
  • Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.
• 2

  At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.

• 3

  The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.

• 4

  The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).

  • Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.
  • A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
• 5

  One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.

  • Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president.
• 6

  Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.

  • The turnings get into your trouser turnups!

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• turn