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English
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Verb
[edit]turn in (third-person singular simple present turns in, present participle turning in, simple past and past participle turned in)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
- Synonyms: hand in; see also Thesaurus:give
- He turned in his paperwork to the main office.
- The actors turned in a formulaic performance.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
- Synonyms: capitulate, submit, relinquish, give up; see also Thesaurus:surrender
- Synonyms: inform, grass up, snitch; see also Thesaurus:rat out
- The thief finally turned himself in at the police station.
- My nosy next-door neighbor turned me in for building my garage without a permit.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To go to bed; to retire to bed.
- Synonyms: hit the sack, retire; see also Thesaurus:go to bed
- I'm tired, so I think I'll turn in early tonight.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 27:
- "Landlord," said I, "tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him.
- (soccer) To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
- 2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Guardian Online[1]:
- At that point Leicester were playing with drive and ambition but they were undone by two goals in three minutes. First, Vieira turned in a rebound after the defender Souleymane Bamba had blocked David Silva's shot on the line.
- (weaving) To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
Translations
[edit]to submit something
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to relinquish; to tell on someone to the authorities
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to go to bed
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to follow a technique used in weaving
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