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Turn on

verb

Cause to operate by flipping a switch. Synonym: switch on. "Turn on the stereo"

Be contingent on. Synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, ride. "Your grade will depends on your homework"

Produce suddenly or automatically. "Turn on the waterworks"

Become hostile towards.

Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused. Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse.

Stimulate sexually. Synonyms: arouse, excite, sex, wind up.

Get high, stoned, or drugged. Synonyms: get off, trip, trip out.

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"Turn on" Quotes from Famous Books

... Turn on the lights! Let the besweated crowds Shriek as the music swells, now high, now low For all to-morrow slumber in their shrouds Who drained excitement's cup an hour ago! Watch flitting beauty, nymph-like, come ...

— The Minstrel - A Collection of Poems • Lennox Amott

... and in the end decided himself to defend Klitzing regardless of consequences. If he challenged the fellows fearlessly and cheekily they would be sure to turn on him, and he would be able to defend himself. At any rate he could better stand a good hard blow than ...

— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

... know just where he is. They know just where that wagon-train is, and up to last evening they knew just where we were, though they are puzzled now, I reckon. All I'm afraid of is that the moment they find we're not in supporting distance, they'll drop what they're after and turn on Wayne. He ought to be only forty odd miles down this valley,—considerably off their line,—and if he has kept close and not fooled away his time he is safe enough; but Wayne is Wayne, colonel, and I've known him to go poking off on side scouts and losing time 'topogging' over pretty ...

— Marion's Faith. • Charles King

... to explain the new definition of knowledge still remain to be considered. They all of them turn on the explanation of logos. The first account of the meaning of the word is the reflection of thought in speech—a sort of nominalism 'La science est une langue bien faite.' But anybody who is not dumb can say what he thinks; therefore mere speech cannot ...

— Theaetetus • Plato

... to the stand, or box, a bracket for one or more pots on either side of the window, about one-third or half-way up, will be desirable. The bracket should turn on a basal hinge or pivot, to admit of swinging it forward or backward. These bracket plants usually suffer for moisture, and ...

— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey

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