Commit and Turn

commit

(v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
(v.t.) To confound.
(v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
(v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
(v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
(v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
(v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

verb

Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- synonyms: invest, put, place
Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

turn

noun

A circular segment of a curve.
- usage: "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
- synonyms: bend, crook, twist
The act of changing or reversing the direction of the course.
- usage: "he took a turn to the right"
- synonyms: turning
Game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession. (
- usage: "it is my turn"; "it is still my play"
- synonyms: play
An unforeseen development.
- usage: "events suddenly took an awkward turn"
- synonyms: turn of events, twist
A movement in a new direction.
- usage: "the turning of the wind"
- synonyms: turning
The act of turning away or in the opposite direction.
- usage: "he made an abrupt turn away from her"
Turning or twisting around (in place. )
- usage: "with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room"
- synonyms: twist
A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else. )
- usage: "it's my go"; "a spell of work"
- synonyms: go, spell, tour
Sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive.
- synonyms: bout, round
A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program.
- usage: "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did"
- synonyms: act, routine, number, bit
A favor for someone.
- usage: "he did me a good turn"
- synonyms: good turn
Taking a short walk out and back.
- usage: "we took a turn in the park"

verb

Change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense.
- usage: "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs"
Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.
- usage: "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"
- synonyms: change state
Undergo a change or development.
- usage: "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor"
- synonyms: become
Cause to move around or rotate.
- usage: "turn a key"; "turn your palm this way"
Change to the contrary.
- usage: "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
- synonyms: change by reversal, reverse
Pass to the other side of.
- usage: "turn the corner"; "move around the obstacle"
- synonyms: move around
Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become.
- usage: "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry"
- synonyms: grow
Let (something) fall or spill from a container.
- usage: "turn the flour onto a plate"
- synonyms: release
Move around an axis or a center.
- usage: "The wheels are turning"
Cause to move around a center so as to show another side of.
- usage: "turn a page of a book"
- synonyms: turn over
To send or let go.
- usage: "They turned away the crowd at the gate of the governor's mansion"
To break and turn over earth especially with a plow.
- usage: "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"
- synonyms: plow, plough
Shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel.
- usage: "turn the legs of the table"; "turn the clay on the wheel"
Change color.
- usage: "In Vermont, the leaves turn early"
Twist suddenly so as to sprain.
- usage: "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days"
- synonyms: twist, sprain, wrench, wrick, rick
Cause to change or turn into something different; assume new characteristics.
- usage: "The princess turned the frog into a prince by kissing him"; "The alchemists tried to turn lead into gold"
Accomplish by rotating.
- usage: "turn a somersault"; "turn cartwheels"
Get by buying and selling.
- usage: "the company turned a good profit after a year"
Cause to move along an axis or into a new direction.
- usage: "turn your face to the wall"; "turn the car around"; "turn your dance partner around"
Channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something.
- usage: "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "people turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium"
Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form.
- usage: "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar"
- synonyms: flex, bend, deform, twist
Alter the functioning or setting of.
- usage: "turn the dial to 10"; "turn the heat down"
Direct at someone.
- usage: "She turned a smile on me"; "They turned their flashlights on the car"
Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to.
- usage: "She called on her Representative to help her"; "She turned to her relatives for help"
- synonyms: call on
Go sour or spoil.
- usage: "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned-we have to throw it out"
- synonyms: sour, ferment, work
Become officially one year older.
- usage: "She is turning 50 this year"

(v.t.) To make a turn about or around (something); to go or pass around by turning; as, to turn a corner.
(v.i.) To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.
(v.i.) To change from ebb to flow or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.
(n.) Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
(v.i.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
(n.) A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
(n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
(v.t.) To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
(n.) Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
(v.i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
(v.i.) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.
(v.i.) To be changed, altered or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
(v.t.) To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote.
(n.) Change of direction, course or tendency; different order, position or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.
(v.i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
(v.i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
(n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
(n.) A circuitous walk or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.
(n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
(v.t.) To change the form, quality, aspect or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.
(n.) One of the successive portions of a course or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
(v.i.) To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.
(n.) Monthly courses; menses.
(v.t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.
(v.t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.
(v.t.) Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt.
(v.i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
(v.i.) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
(v.t.) To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.
(v.i.) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
(n.) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
(n.) Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
(v.i.) To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
(n.) A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
(n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
(v.t.) To cause to move upon a center or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
(v.t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.
(n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus / or drawn thus /.
(v.t.) To give another direction, tendency or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

In the equities market, a reversal; unwind.

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