Buckle |
A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue. |
n. |
Buckle |
A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. |
n. |
Buckle |
A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled. |
n. |
Buckle |
A contorted expression, as of the face. |
n. |
Buckle |
To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness. |
n. |
Buckle |
To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted. |
n. |
Buckle |
To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively. |
n. |
Buckle |
To join in marriage. |
n. |
Buckle |
To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink. |
v. i. |
Buckle |
To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall. |
v. i. |
Buckle |
To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. |
v. i. |
Buckle |
To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend. |
v. i. |
Re-turn |
To turn again. |
v. t. & i. |
Sea turn |
A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea. |
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Turn |
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. |
Turn |
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. |
Turn |
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. |
v. t. |
Turn |
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. |
v. t. |
Turn |
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. |
v. t. |
Turn |
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. |
v. t. |