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Turn out

verb

Be shown or be found to be. Synonyms: prove, turn up. "The medicine turned out to save her life" , "She turned up HIV positive"

Prove to be in the result or end.

Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery.

Result or end. Synonym: come out.

Come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons.

Bring forth,. Synonym: bear. "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"

Put out or expel from a place. Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, eject, exclude, turf out.

Come and gather for a public event.

Outfit or equip, as with accessories.

10.

Turn outward. Synonyms: rotate, splay, spread out. "Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

11.

Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch. Synonyms: cut, switch off, turn off. "Cut the engine" , "Turn out the lights"

12.

Get up and out of bed. Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, uprise. "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"

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"Turn out" Quotes from Famous Books

... mean anything, sir. But when one has heard such news as this, how is it possible that one should compose oneself? It's a sort of thing that never happened before,—that one's own particular friend should turn out to be the Duca di Crinola. Did anybody ever read anything like it in a novel? Wouldn't it act well? Can't I see the first meeting between myself and the Duke at the Haymarket! 'Duke,' I should say—'Duke, I congratulate you on having come to your august ...

— Marion Fay • Anthony Trollope

... old debt (of the settlement of which they had, on account of my position, the very remotest chance) to be in these hopeless circumstances a sacrifice on their part, but that at the same time I expressed my conviction that in case, against all expectation, "Lohengrin" should turn out a success, and its publication a good speculation, they would think of me in a generous manner—in case of all this these gentlemen will not consider it unfair or inopportune if I look upon the circumstances as changed ...

— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... shall be able to properly account for them when I return from a little trip that I am about to take to-day," said he. "That is," as a sort of afterthought, "if some things turn out as I ...

— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre

... She could turn out Waffles as long as there was a Customer in sight. The Biscuit on which she specialized were ...

— Ade's Fables • George Ade

... settled our business, von der Lancken talked to me for half an hour or so about the war in general. He said they had just received a telegram that Reims is in flames, cathedral and all. It is a terrible thing to think of, and I suppose may turn out to be another Louvain before we get through. Von der Lancken explained it on the ground that French troops had come up and occupied the town, and that it was necessary to take it by storm—that troops ...

— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson

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