turn over
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.25 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "They turned over the evidence to the authorities."
- "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."
- "They can turn over about three hundred units per hour."
- "The business turned over several million last year."
Etymology
From turn + over.