turn on
verb- To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve. · Turn on the tap/faucet.
- To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.). · Please turn the lights on so I can see what I'm reading.· Please turn on automatic updates.
- To start operating; to power up, to become on. · My computer won't turn on.
- To introduce (someone to something), and especially to fill them with enthusiasm (about it); to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement). · Attractive packaging can turn buyers on to a product.· Attractive showroom models can turn buyers on.
- To sexually arouse. · John's a maid fetishist. Maid outfits really turn him on.
- To take drugs.
- To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
- To aim at. · He turned the searchlight on the passing planes.· Cornered by the authorities, the shooter turned the gun on himself.
From the library
Albert left the cab in which he had come at the count’s door, intending to take a turn on foot.
The answer known, he had yielded to Albert’s wish to be introduced to Haydée, and allowed the conversation to turn on the death of Ali, and had not opposed Haydée’s recital (but having, doubtless, warned the young girl, in the few Romaic words he spoke to her, not to implicate Morcerf’s father).
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