Turning vs. Volta

Turningnoun

(British) A turn or deviation from a straight course.

Turningnoun

(field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.

Turningnoun

The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.

Turningnoun

The act of turning.

Turningnoun

(plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.

Turningnoun

The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a flexure; a meander.

Turningnoun

The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.

Turningnoun

Deviation from the way or proper course.

Turningnoun

Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various forms by means of a lathe and cutting tools.

Turningnoun

The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned; - usually used in the plural.

Turningnoun

A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.

Turningnoun

the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course;

Turningnoun

act of changing in practice or custom;

Turningnoun

a movement in a new direction;

Turning

Turning is a machining process in which a cutting tool, typically a non-rotary tool bit, describes a helix toolpath by moving more or less linearly while the workpiece rotates. Usually the term is reserved for the generation of external surfaces by this cutting action, whereas this same essential cutting action when applied to internal surfaces (holes, of one kind or another) is called .

Voltanoun

(music) A turning; a time chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated.

Voltanoun

A volte

Voltanoun

(poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.

Voltanoun

A turning; a time; - chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.

Voltanoun

Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)