Meaning

• (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.

• (heading) To change condition or attitude.

• To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.

• (usually with over) To complete.

  "They say they can turn the parts in two days."

• To make (money); turn a profit.

  "We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme."

• Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.

• To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.

  "Ivory turns well."

• To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

• To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

• To translate.

  "to turn the Iliad"

• To magically or divinely attack undead.