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1 take turns
((of two or more people) to do something one after the other, not at the same time: They took turns to look after the baby.) skiptast á -
2 by turns
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3 turn
[tə:n] 1. verb1) (to (make something) move or go round; to revolve: The wheels turned; He turned the handle.) snúa(st)2) (to face or go in another direction: He turned and walked away; She turned towards him.) snúa sér við/að3) (to change direction: The road turned to the left.) beygja4) (to direct; to aim or point: He turned his attention to his work.) beina5) (to go round: They turned the corner.) fara/beygja fyrir6) (to (cause something to) become or change to: You can't turn lead into gold; At what temperature does water turn into ice?) breyta(st)7) (to (cause to) change colour to: Her hair turned white; The shock turned his hair white.) verða, breyta2. noun1) (an act of turning: He gave the handle a turn.) snúningur2) (a winding or coil: There are eighty turns of wire on this aerial.) vafningur, snúningur3) ((also turning) a point where one can change direction, eg where one road joins another: Take the third turn(ing) on/to the left.) beygja4) (one's chance or duty (to do, have etc something shared by several people): It's your turn to choose a record; You'll have to wait your turn in the bathroom.) tækifæri, skipti5) (one of a series of short circus or variety acts, or the person or persons who perform it: The show opened with a comedy turn.) atriði•- turnover
- turnstile
- turntable
- turn-up
- by turns
- do someone a good turn
- do a good turn
- in turn
- by turns
- out of turn
- speak out of turn
- take a turn for the better
- worse
- take turns
- turn a blind eye
- turn against
- turn away
- turn back
- turn down
- turn in
- turn loose
- turn off
- turn on
- turn out
- turn over
- turn up -
4 alternate
1. ['o:ltəneit] verb(to use, do etc by turns, repeatedly, one after the other: John alternates between teaching and studying; He tried to alternate red and yellow tulips along the path as he planted them.) skiptast á, hafa til skiptis2. [o:l'tə:nət] adjective1) (coming, happening etc in turns, one after the other: The water came in alternate bursts of hot and cold.) sem skiptist á2) (every second (day, week etc): My friend and I take the children to school on alternate days.) annar hver•- alternation -
5 axis
['æksis]plural - axes; noun1) (the real or imaginary line on which a thing turns (as the axis of the earth, from North Pole to South Pole, around which the earth turns).) möndull, öxull2) (a fixed line used as a reference, as in a graph: He plotted the temperatures on the horizontal axis.) ás -
6 after all
1) ((used when giving a reason for doing something etc) taking everything into consideration: I won't invite him. After all, I don't really know him.) þegar öllu er á botninn hvolft2) (in spite of everything that has/had happened, been said etc: It turns out he went by plane after all.) þrátt fyrir allt -
7 axle
['æksl](the rod on which a wheel turns: the back axle of the car.) öxull -
8 button
1. noun1) (a knob or disc used as a fastening: I lost a button off my coat.) hnappur, tala2) (a small knob pressed to operate something: This button turns the radio on.) hnappur, takki2. verb((often with up) to fasten by means of buttons.) hneppa3. verb(to catch someone's attention and hold him in conversation: He buttonholed me and began telling me the story of his life.) negla, tefja með masi -
9 camera
['kæmərə]1) (an apparatus for taking still or (movie-camera) moving photographs.) ljósmyndavél; kvikmyndatökuvél2) (in television, an apparatus which receives a picture and turns it into electrical impulses for transmitting.) sjónvarpstökuvél -
10 curd
[kə:d]((also curds noun plural) the solid substance formed when milk turns sour, used in making cheese.) ystingur -
11 do (someone) a good turn
(to do something helpful for someone: He did me several good turns.) gera (e-m) greiða -
12 do (someone) a good turn
(to do something helpful for someone: He did me several good turns.) gera (e-m) greiða -
13 flip
[flip] 1. past tense, past participle - flipped; verb1) (to throw (something) in the air (so that it turns): They flipped a coin to see which side it landed on.) kasta upp2) ((sometimes with over) to turn over quickly: She flipped over the pages of the book.) fletta, snúa við2. noun(an act of flipping.) fletting -
14 grindstone
noun (a wheel-shaped stone against which knives are sharpened as it turns.) hverfisteinn -
15 hinge
[hin‹](the joint by means of which a door is fastened to a door-frame, a lid is fastened to a box etc and on which the door, lid etc turns when it opens or closes: I must oil the hinges.) hjör, löm- hinge on -
16 into
['intu]1) (to or towards the inside of; to within: The eggs were put into the box; They disappeared into the mist.) inn í, í2) (against: The car ran into the wall.) inn í3) (to the state or condition of: A tadpole turns into a frog; I've sorted the books into piles.) í4) (expressing the idea of division: Two into four goes twice.) (deildur) í -
17 inwards
adverb (towards the inside or the centre: When one of the eyes turns inwards, we call the effect a squint.) inn, inn á við -
18 lathe
[leið](a machine for shaping wood, metal etc, which turns the piece of wood etc which is to be shaped round and round against a tool held steady by the operator.) rennibekkur -
19 millwheel
noun (a wheel that provides power to a mill as it turns.) -
20 pivot
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