turn out

Verb

• get up and out of bed
  • I get up at 7 A.M. every day
    
  • They rose early
    
  • He uprose at night
    

• cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
  • Turn off the stereo, please
    
  • cut the engine
    
  • turn out the lights
    

• turn outward
  • These birds can splay out their toes
    
  • ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees
    

• outfit or equip, as with accessories
  • The actors were turned out lavishly
    

• come and gather for a public event
  • Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York
    

• put out or expel from a place
  • The unruly student was excluded from the game
    

• bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"
  • The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers
    

• come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
  • How many people turned out that evening?
    

• result or end
  • How will the game turn out?
    

• produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
  • This factory turns out saws
    

• prove to be in the result or end
  • It turns out that he was right
    

• be shown or be found to be
  • She proved to be right
    
  • The medicine turned out to save her life
    
  • She turned up HIV positive
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  get up , arise , uprise , rise , switch off , cut , turn off , splay , spread out , rotate , eject , chuck out , exclude , turf out , boot out , bear , come out , prove , turn up
• Antonyms: 
  switch on , turn on