the.com/turn
the smallest commitment a direction can make and still mean everything.
means To move or cause to move around a point or axis, change direction, or become something different.
from From Old English 'tyrnan' and 'turnian,' meaning to rotate or revolve, drawn from Latin 'tornare' — to turn on a lathe — which itself comes from 'tornus,' a turner's tool, borrowed from Greek 'tornos,' a compass or instrument for drawing circles. So the word's deepest ancestor is a craftsman's tool tracing a perfect arc — every modern 'turn,' from a wheel to a phrase to a person changing their mind, still carries that ghost of something pivoting around a fixed center.
- war metaphor
- battles, tides, and lives all famously pivot on one
- physics
- turning means accelerating, even at constant speed
- language
- shares roots with 'tour,' both spinning from the same lathe
- sea law
- ships have right-of-way rules for who turns first
- chess
- a single turn skipped is illegal, never optional
turn of the screw — henry james novella published in 1898, one of the most debated works of english literature
turn back time — cher's 1989 hit single that won the academy award for best original song
turner prize — annual british art award established in 1984, given to artists under 50