"turn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

turn verbo

turn + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 304
turn tail • turn red • turn Point • turn things • turn northeast • turn southeast • turn people • turn one's attention • turn one's head • ...
verbo + turn
Kolokacji: 68
begin turning • start turning • help turn • keep turning • cause to turn • try to turn • manage to turn • threaten to turn • plan to turn • ...
turn + preposición
Kolokacji: 115
turn out • turn into • turn up • turn down • turn over • turn off • turn around • turn back • turn toward • turn towards • turn onto • ...
turn + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 340
turn away • quickly turn • turn slowly • turn red • suddenly turn • turn sour • turn aside • turn abruptly • turn left • turn violent • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 83
(1) away, aside, out
Kolokacji: 3
(6) left, right, eagerly
Kolokacji: 3
(10) gray, old
Kolokacji: 2
(15) nasty, fearfully, vengeful
Kolokacji: 3
(18) eventually, finally, initially
Kolokacji: 3
(21) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(22) later
Kolokacji: 3
(23) westward, westwards
Kolokacji: 2
(24) actually, practically
Kolokacji: 2
(25) upward, down, downward
Kolokacji: 3
(27) automatically, reflexively
Kolokacji: 2
(29) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(30) angrily, angry, gangrenous
Kolokacji: 3
(33) southward, southwards
Kolokacji: 2
(35) loose, harsh, freely, glassy
Kolokacji: 4
(36) grim, dark, low, forth, gloomy
Kolokacji: 5
(38) hard, firmly, laboriously
Kolokacji: 3
1. turn invisible = obracać się niewidoczny turn invisible
2. discreetly turn = dyskretnie obróć się discreetly turn
  • All the chimps, when eating, discreetly turned their backs and I began to feel a bit unwelcome.
  • The two reliefs on the flanking sides discreetly turn their backs to the mystery of the central subject.
  • The travel-worn Pullings, discreetly turned to the window as Jack read his letter, spun about at the cry.
  • He does so, and hands the slip of paper to the Professor's Son, who discreetly turns away.
  • When the chorus travels we become show people, even changing together in communal dressing rooms (backs turned discreetly).
  • "After each shot, he would discreetly turn to Alma and ask: 'Was that all right?' "
  • In another, he sits facing Ingres's bather - her back, as always discreetly turned -with his camera raised.
  • A suppressed curse escaped from Marshall as he turned discreetly away from them.
  • Taking the point, Helward moved some distance away, keeping his back turned discreetly while she fed the baby.
  • But heads turned discreetly back again at her daughters' school, where the actress takes her place as a parent and can relax a bit.
3. imperceptibly turn = niepostrzeżenie obracać się imperceptibly turn
(41) inward, inside
Kolokacji: 2
(42) reluctantly, defiantly
Kolokacji: 2
(43) effectively, lazily, idly
Kolokacji: 3
(45) backward, backwards
Kolokacji: 2
(46) briefly, shortly
Kolokacji: 2
(47) inwards, outwards
Kolokacji: 2
(48) hastily, hurriedly
Kolokacji: 2
(52) barely, hardly
Kolokacji: 2
(53) obediently, willingly, gladly
Kolokacji: 3
(54) forward, ahead
Kolokacji: 2
(56) calmly, casually, nonchalantly
Kolokacji: 3
(58) smartly, briskly, cleverly
Kolokacji: 3
(59) quietly, ostentatiously, quiet
Kolokacji: 3
(60) pointedly, straight, squarely
Kolokacji: 3
(61) politely, rudely
Kolokacji: 2
(67) dry, wry
Kolokacji: 2
(68) bearish, bullish
Kolokacji: 2
(69) impatiently, excitedly
Kolokacji: 2
(70) officially, regularly
Kolokacji: 2
(71) silently, silent
Kolokacji: 2
(75) involuntarily, voluntarily
Kolokacji: 2
(77) frantically, wildly
Kolokacji: 2
(80) inexplicably, mysteriously
Kolokacji: 2
(81) nervously, skittish
Kolokacji: 2
(82) downstream, upstream
Kolokacji: 2
(83) grandly, majestically
Kolokacji: 2

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