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Turn on

verb

Cause to operate by flipping a switch. Synonym: switch on. "Turn on the stereo"

Be contingent on. Synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, ride. "Your grade will depends on your homework"

Produce suddenly or automatically. "Turn on the waterworks"

Become hostile towards.

Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused. Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse.

Stimulate sexually. Synonyms: arouse, excite, sex, wind up.

Get high, stoned, or drugged. Synonyms: get off, trip, trip out.

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"Turn on" Quotes from Famous Books

... since I chanced to have that conversation with Dr Johnson in my house, to which you refer, I have forgotten most of what then passed, but remember that I was both instructed and entertained by it. Among other subjects, the discourse happening to turn on modern Latin poets, the Dr expressed a very favourable opinion of Buchanan, and instantly repeated, from beginning to end, an ode of his, intituled Calendae Maiae (the eleventh in his Miscellaneorum Liber), beginning with ...

— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell

... necessary to turn on the Edge, on such Ground whereon the Flat would slip, and the Edge would not, if it were properly turned; but even in this Case, by turning it too much it would have no Hold of the Terrace, and therefore would be as dangerous as keeping ...

— The Art of Fencing - The Use of the Small Sword • Monsieur L'Abbat

... and laid him on the bed from which he was to rise with all that he had fought for overthrown, himself the blind victim of a hard fate. He had noticed the old man straighten himself with a spring and stand as though petrified when Ingolby said: "Why don't you turn on the light?" As he looked round in that instant of ghastly silence he had observed almost mechanically that the old man's lips were murmuring something. Then the thought of Fleda Druse shot into Rockwell's mind, and it harassed him during the hours Ingolby slept, and after the giant Gipsy had ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... to be sent to bed. Your eyes are too big and your colour too high. Stop this foolishness and let us take a turn on the river road. The moonlight is filling it—it's too ...

— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

... their paths intersecting at least once in every orbit. The problem was to estimate your opponent's orbital position, and then program your own ship so that you arrived at that position either behind or to one side of him. Then you could train your guns on him before he could turn on you. ...

— The Dueling Machine • Benjamin William Bova

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