English Dictionary

turn out

verb

(intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result. / (intransitive, by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well. / (intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up.

The party turned out to be a great success.

意味（1）

(intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result.

I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better.

意味（2）

(intransitive, by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well.

I'm afraid the cake didn't turn out.

意味（3）

(intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up.

Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade.

意味（4）

(intransitive, dated) To go out; to leave one's home.

But then one of Mr. Knott's men would have had to put on his coat and hat and turn out, as likely as not in the pitch dark, and in torrents of rain in all probability, and grope his way in the dark in the pours of rain, with the pot of food in his hand, a wretched and ridiculous figure, to where the dog lay.

意味（5）

(transitive, idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device

Turn out the lights before you leave.

意味（6）

(intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out

As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.

意味（7）

(transitive, idiomatic) To produce; make.

The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To leave a road.

Turn out at the third driveway.

意味（9）

(transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc.

Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it.

意味（10）

(transitive) To empty for inspection.

Please turn out your pockets.

意味（11）

(transitive, idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.

The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.

意味（12）

(sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.

He then turned her out onto the streets of Chicago with a quota to meet: $500 for a night's work.

意味（13）

(sex, transitive, prison slang) To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.

意味（14）

(transitive) To put (cattle) out to pasture.

意味（15）

(transitive) To convince to vote

turn out potential voters

意味（16）

(intransitive) To leave one's work to take part in a strike.

意味（17）

(intransitive, colloquial) To get out of bed; get up.