turn
Because it is a word with a single syllable, turn is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofturn
- (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.
Example: "They say they can turn the parts in two days."
- To make (money); turn a profit.
Example: "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.
Example: "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.
Example: "to turn the Iliad"
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
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