turning
/ˈtɝ.nɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president."
- "The turnings get into your trouser turnups!"
Etymology
From Middle English turnyng, turnynge, from Old English tyrning, turnung, equivalent to turn + -ing.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɝ.nɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/
Usage
- British usage