1. (使)翻转;(使)颠倒;(使)倾覆
If you turn something over, or if it turns over, it is moved so that the top part is now facing downwards.
2. 翻身
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.
3. (在脑子里)仔细考虑,深思熟虑,细想
If you turn something over in your mind, you think carefully about it.
4. (向有权获得某物的人)移交,交托
If you turn something over to someone, you give it to them when they ask for it, because they have a right to it.
5. 移交(职位、责任)
If you turn over a job or responsibility that you have, you give it to someone else, so that you no longer have it.
6. 换频道;转台
If you turn over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
1. think about carefully
weigh
e.g. They considered the possibility of a strike
Turn the proposal over in your mind
Synonym: considerdebatemootdeliberate
2. turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
e.g. flip over the pork chop
turn over the pancakes
3. turn up, loosen, or remove earth
e.g. Dig we must
turn over the soil for aeration
4. move by turning over or rotating
e.g. The child rolled down the hill
turn over on your left side
Synonym: roll
5. turn from an upright or normal position
e.g. The big vase overturned
The canoe tumped over
Synonym: overturntip overtump over
6. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
e.g. The cat knocked over the flower vase
the clumsy customer turned over the vase
he tumped over his beer
Synonym: overturntip overupsetknock overbowl overtump over
7. cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
e.g. turn a page of a book
Synonym: turn
8. place into the hands or custody of
e.g. hand me the spoon, please
Turn the files over to me, please
He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
Synonym: passhandreachpass ongive
9. do business worth a certain amount of money
e.g. The company turns over ten million dollars a year