Definition of over-turn in English English dictionary
- To apply too much spin to the ball and not enough finger lift, preventing the ball from having proper action When the thumb stays in too long, the ball is said to be overturned The thumb should come out first, allowing the fingers to lift the ball forward and spin it to the side
- To put too much spin on the ball, usually resulting in too much of a hook, which is likely to cause a nose hit or a Brooklyn hit
- To put too much spin on the ball, usually resulting in too much of a hook, which can lead to a nose hit or even a Brooklyn hit
- overturn
- To turn over, capsize or upset (something)
- turn over
- To produce, complete, or cycle through
They can turn over about three hundred units per hour.
- turn over
- To flip over; to rotate top to bottom
Turn over the box and look at the bottom.
- turn over
- To relinquish; give back
They turned over the evidence to the authorities.
- turn over
- To transfer
But what is to be done with our manufacturing population This one thing, of doing for them by ‘underselling all people,’ and filling our own bursten pockets and appetites by the road; and turning over all care for any ‘population,’ or human or divine consideration except cash only, to the winds, with a “Laissez-faire” and the rest of it: this is evidently not the thing.
- turn over a new leaf
- To engage in self-improvement; to begin a good habit or shed a bad habit
Every year he resolves to turn over a new leaf and start exercising.
- overturn
- {v} to throw down, destroy, conquer
- turn over in one's grave
- (deyim) Fig. to show enormous disfavor for something that has happened after one's death
1. If our late father heard you say that, he'd turn over in his grave.
2. Please don't change the place around too much when I'm dead. I do not wish to be rolling in my grave all the time.
- overturn
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer
- overturn
- To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind
- overturn
- To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building
- overturn
- turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"
- overturn
- If something overturns or if you overturn it, it turns upside down or on its side. The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall Alex jumped up so violently that he overturned his glass of sherry a battered overturned boat
- overturn
- To overthrow or destroy something
- overturn
- Fall cooling and spring warming of surface water increases density and gradually makes temperature and density uniform from top to bottom This allows wind and wave action to mix the entire lake Mixing allows bottom waters to contact the atmosphere, raising the oxygen content of the water However, warming may occur too rapidly in the spring for mixing to be effective, especially in small sheltered kettle lakes
- overturn
- {f} turn over; overthrow; reverse the power of (as of a decision); subdue; defeat
- overturn
- One complete cycle of top to bottom mixing of previously stratified water masses This phenome- non may occur in spring or fall, or after storms, and results in uniformity of chemical and physical prop- erties of water at all depths
- overturn
- an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
- overturn
- the act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
- overturn
- change radically; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe"
- overturn
- If someone in authority overturns a legal decision, they officially decide that that decision is incorrect or not valid. His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins. = overrule
- overturn
- To overturn a government or system means to remove it or destroy it. He accused his opponents of wanting to overturn the government
- overturn
- cause the downfall of; of rulers; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class"
- overturn
- The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties
- overturn
- Fall cooling and spring warming of surface water increases density, and gradually makes temperature and density uniform from top to bottom This allows wind and wave action to mix the entire lake Mixing allows bottom waters to contact the atmosphere, raising the water's oxygen content However, warming may occur too rapidly in the spring for mixing to be effective, especially in small sheltered kettle lakes
- overturn
- The almost spontaneous mixing of all layers of water in a reservoir or lake when the water temperature becomes similar from top to bottom This may occur in the fall/winter when the surface waters cool to the same temperature as the bottom waters and also in the spring when the surface waters warms after the ice melts
- overturn
- an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath" turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over" cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer
- overturn
- annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
- overturn
- To overpower; to conquer
- overturn
- To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow
- overturn
- One complete cycle of top to bottom mixing of previously stratified water masses This phenomenon may occur in spring or fall, or after storms, and results in uniformity of chemical and physical properties of water at all depths
- overturn
- rule against; "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"
- turn over
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"
- turn over
- If you turn over a job or responsibility that you have, you give it to someone else, so that you no longer have it. The King may turn over some of his official posts to his son
- turn over
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; "turn a page of a book"
- turn over
- place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
- turn over
- An engine is said to turn over when the starter has caused the crankshaft to begin to turn, which starts the pistons moving so that combustion can begin to take place in the cylinders, providing power to move the car
- turn over
- In football and basketball and other team sports, to lose possession of the ball through a mistake (as a fumble or intercepted pass) or an infraction of the rules (such as stepping out of bounds or traveling!
- turn over
- think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
- turn over
- Losing possession of the ball, typically by error
- turn over
- do business worth a certain amount of money; "The company turns over ten million dollars a year"
- turn over
- turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"
- turn over
- If you turn something over in your mind, you think carefully about it. Even when she didn't say anything you could see her turning things over in her mind
- turn over
- If you turn something over to someone, you give it to them when they ask for it, because they have a right to it. I would, indeed, turn the evidence over to the police The lawyer turned over the release papers. = hand over
- turn over
- If you turn something over, or if it turns over, it is moved so that the top part is now facing downwards. Liz picked up the blue envelope and turned it over curiously I don't suppose you thought to turn over the tape, did you? The buggy turned over and Nancy was thrown out
- turn over
- If you turn over when you are watching television, you change to another channel. Whenever he's on TV, I turn over. see also turnover
- turn over
- change direction; exchange; submit; (Slang) rob
- turn over
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse; "flip over the pork chop"; "turn over the pancakes"
- turn over
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
- turn over
- do business worth a certain amount of money; "The company turns over ten million dollars a year
- turn over
- move by turning over or rotating; "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"
- turn over
- If you turn over, for example when you are lying in bed, you move your body so that you are lying in a different position. Ann turned over in her bed once more
- turn over a new leaf
- start over, make a new beginning
- turn over in the mind
- consider carefully, think about a lot, meditate on
- turn over to
- If you turn something over to a different function or use, you change its function or use. When he first leased the land in the late 1970s, he planned to turn it over to cereal production