TURN OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turn out mean? 

• TURN OUT (verb)
  The verb TURN OUT has 12 senses:

1. be shown or be found to be

2. prove to be in the result or end

3. produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery

4. result or end

5. come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons

6. bring forth

7. put out or expel from a place

8. come and gather for a public event

9. outfit or equip, as with accessories

10. turn outward

11. cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch

12. get up and out of bed

  Familiarity information: TURN OUT used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURN OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be shown or be found to be

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

prove; turn out; turn up

Context example:

She turned up HIV positive

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):

ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prove to be in the result or end

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

It turns out that he was right

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Sentence frame:

It ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

This factory turns out saws

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

turnout (what is produced in a given time period)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Result or end

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

come out; turn out

Context example:

How will the game turn out?

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):

eventuate (come out in the end)

work out (happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

How many people turned out that evening?

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Bring forth

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

bear; turn out

Context example:

The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):

spin off (produce as a consequence of something larger)

seed (bear seeds)

crop (yield crops)

overbear (bear too much)

fruit (bear fruit)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Put out or expel from a place

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out

Context example:

The unruly student was excluded from the game

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):

evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)

evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)

show the door (ask to leave)

bounce (eject from the premises)

exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 8

Meaning:

Come and gather for a public event

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

turnout (attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election))

turnout (the group that gathers together for a particular occasion)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Outfit or equip, as with accessories

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The actors were turned out lavishly

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

turnout (a set of clothing (with accessories))

Sense 10

Meaning:

Turn outward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

rotate; splay; spread out; turn out

Context example:

ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

turnout ((ballet) the outward rotation of a dancer's leg from the hip)

Sense 11

Meaning:

Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cut; switch off; turn off; turn out

Context example:

turn out the lights

Hypernyms (to "turn out" is one way to...):

flip; switch; throw (cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn out"):

kill (cause to cease operating)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 12

Meaning:

Get up and out of bed

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; turn out; uprise

Context example:

He uprose at night

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue turn out

Antonym:

turn in (prepare for sleep)

 Context examples 

If so, you will be happy with the way things turn out.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But it can't be helped now, and I never expected it would turn out this way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Some areas may turn out to have further subdivisions or be subunits of other areas, in light of new data.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

I begin to be afraid that the fault is not entirely on one side, but that these people all turn out ill because we don't turn out very well ourselves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I hope she will turn out well.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It may turn out to be of more interest than you think.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"But surely you will think more of me when you hear the splendid thoughts my new brain is going to turn out."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Emma thought at least it would turn out so.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But they also revealed what could turn out to be an unexpected variety in the individual details of these cataclysmic stellar events.

(Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star, NASA)

The surface texture has yet to be resolved simply because we are still too far away; any apparent brighter or darker regions may turn out to be false interpretations at this early stage.

(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)