turn upとは

意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

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

1. (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.

   Is this your t-shirt that turned up in my drawer?

   I don't like people turning up without an appointment.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward […]

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.

2. (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.

   I spent hours in the archives, but couldn't turn up anything on the alleged criminal.

3. (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.

   Turn up the radio and sing along.

4. (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.

   He turned up his collar against the cold.

5. (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.

   Turn up the main halyard.

6. (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.

   We're going to turn up at the concert tonight.

使用する際の注意点

• In senses 2, 3 and 4 the object is normally a thing, not a person. It may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

反意語

• (increase): turn down

上位語

• turn

派生語

• a bad penny always turns up
• turn it up
• turnt up
• turn up one's nose
• turn up the heat

語源

From the verb phrase turn up.

名詞

turn-up (複数形 turn-ups)

1. Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.

   Why does all this fluff acumulate in the turn-ups?

2. (dated) A fight or disturbance.
   • 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House 26:

     I was passable enough when I went with the tinker, though nothing to boast of then; but what with blowing the fire with my mouth when I was young, and spileing my complexion, and singeing my hair off, and swallering the smoke, and what with being nat’rally unfort’nate in the way of running against hot metal and marking myself by sich means, and what with having turn-ups with the tinker as I got older, almost whenever he was too far gone in drink—which was almost always—my beauty was queer, wery queer, even at that time.

3. (card games) The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.

   I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.

4. A stroke of good luck; something that appears unexpectedly; especially in turn up for the book.
   • 1896, Henry Smurthwaite, Racing Illustrated (volume 3, page 236)

     Despondent settled down favourite, but ran badly, and the fielders had a fine turn up by the success of Carlton Spring, on whom Allsopp jumped off in front and stayed there.

同意語

• (fabric turned up): cuff, trouser cuff (米国用法)

語源

From the verb phrase turn up.

名詞

turnup (複数形 turnups)

1. (Britain) The cuff on a trouser leg that is, or can be turned up.

   Why does all this fluff acumulate in the turnups?

2. The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.

   I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.

関連する語

• turn up

アナグラム

• upturn