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verb

  • To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.

    "Turn on the tap"

  • To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).

    "Please turn on automatic updates."

  • (of a device) To start operating; to power up, to become on.

    "My computer won't turn on."

  • To fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).

    "Attractive packaging can turn buyers on to a product."

  • To sexually arouse.
  • To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
  • To violently rebel against; to suddenly attack (this is the intransitive verb turn, with on functioning as a preposition not as an adverbial particle).

    "Suddenly all his friends turned on him."

  • To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject (this is the intransitive verb turn, with on functioning as a preposition not as an adverbial particle).

    "The argument turned on the question of whether or not jobs would be lost."

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