Usually means: Changing direction or orientation physically.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word turning:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. turning: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. turning: Merriam-Webster
  3. turning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. turning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. turning: Collins English Dictionary
  6. turning: Vocabulary.com
  7. Turning, turning: Wordnik
  8. turning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. turning: Wiktionary
  10. turning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. turning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. turning: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. turning: Dictionary.com
  14. turning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Turning (short story collection), The Turning (stories), The Turning, Turning (album), Turning (disambiguation), Turning (film), Turning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Turning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. turning: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. turning: Rhymezone
  19. Turning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. turning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. turning: MyWord.info
  22. turning: FreeDictionary.org
  23. turning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. turning: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. turning: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turning: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. turning: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. turning: Legal dictionary
  3. turning: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turning: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. turning: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Turning: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turning: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the turning: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Furnishings Guide (No longer online)

(Note: See turn as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (UK, Ireland) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
noun:  (field hockey) 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:  The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
noun:  The act of turning (rotating or twisting).
noun:  One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that makes up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
noun:  (plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.

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