turn outとは

意味・読み方・使い方

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動詞

turn out (三人称単数 現在形 turns out, 現在分詞 turning out, 過去形および過去分詞形 turned out)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To result; end up.
   • 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones suffers the fog of war in the battle against the dead (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     The thing we’ll all remember is Arya Stark, Supreme Badass Of The Seven Kingdoms. Not Jon Snow, not Daenerys, but the pint-size warrior who spends the first part of the fight just annihilating White Walkers one after the other, then turns out to be the one who deals the killing blow the the Night King.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

   I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better.

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

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

3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up.

   Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade.

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

   Turn out the lights before you leave.

   • 1854, Dickens, chapter 11, in Hard Times:

     The day grew strong, and showed itself outside, even against the flaming lights within. The lights were turned out, and the work went on.

5. (intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:

     The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice. As it turned out, it was a masterstroke. The striker was full of running, played with a more direct shoot-on-sight approach than normal and finished with two goals and an assist.

   It turns out that he just made a lucky guess.

6. (transitive, idiomatic) To produce; make.

   The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day.

7. (intransitive) To leave a road.

   Turn out at the third driveway.

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

   Turn out the dough onto a board and shape it.

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

   The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.

   The poor family were turned out of their lodgings at only an hour's notice.

10. (sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
    • 2008, Carolyn Maloney, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

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

    • 2008, Joseph B. Haggerty, Sr., Shame: The Story of a Pimp (page 361)

      Like I told you, I'm still turning this one bitch out. […] Sunday is three days away, if you ain't turned her out by then she ain't worth it.

    • 2012, Eyes . . . JB, If I Should Die Tonight: The Untold Stories (page 18)

      The nigga that turned her out was named Derek “Sweets” D. I despised that pimping motherfucker with passion.

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

参考

• come out
• crank out
• end up
• put out
• turn
• turn away
• turn off
• turn up
• turnout

アナグラム

• out-turn, outturn

アナグラム

• out-turn, outturn

名詞

turnout (複数形 turnouts)

1. The act of coming forth.
2. The number of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.
   • 2012, The Hyperink Team, Essential Tools For Managing A Restaurant Business, Hyperink Inc (→ISBN):

     Depending on the location of a restaurant, weekdays may equally experience low turnout.

   • 2016, Alistair Jones, Britain and the European Union, Edinburgh University Press (→ISBN), page 212:

     A country which has always had an exceptionally good turnout for its elections to the European Parliament is Belgium. Every single election has had a turnout of over 90 per cent. The reason for this is that there is compulsory voting in Belgium.

3. (US) A place to pull off a road.

   When towing a trailer, use the turnouts to let faster traffic pass.

   • 2011, Douglas Steakley, Photographing Big Sur: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them, The Countryman Press (→ISBN), page 56:

     This is a location that should not be missed, especially during late afternoons in winter. This field can be photographed from the narrow driveway that leads down to the restaurant or from the turnout south of the restaurant, ...

4. (rail transport, chiefly US) A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.
5. (dated) A quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike.
6. (dated) A striker.
   • 2002, Brian Lewis, The Middlemost and the Milltowns (page 86)

     Meanwhile on the eighteenth a party of soldiers dispersed a crowd in Over Darwen, and the following day a detachment came to protect the Hargreaves' large mill at Accrington, where one of the partners, anticipating a visit from the turnouts, had sworn in several hundred of the workpeople as special constables.

7. That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage.

   A man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turnout.

8. Net quantity of produce yielded.

同意語

• (roadside area): lay-by

派生語

• turnout gear

アナグラム

• out-turn, outturn