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TURNED OUT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dressed well or smartly
Example:
the girls were well turned out and smart
Classified under:
Similar:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples:
Nothing, as things turned out, but everything had they gone another way.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Blood tests on the affected children had shown high levels of interferon-induced proteins,” Goldbach-Mansky notes, “so we were not surprised when the mutated gene turned out to be related to interferon signaling.”
(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)
Even though some cortex areas turned out to be atypically located in a small minority of subjects, the data-derived algorithms incorporated into the software were able to successfully map them.
(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)
It turned out that they could, which caused the team to wonder if the accelerometers in standard smartphones would also work.
(Heart-Checking App May Help Prevent Strokes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Mr. Arrow, first of all, turned out even worse than the captain had feared.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The people who had turned out were the girl’s own family; and pretty soon, the doctor, for whom she had been sent put in his appearance.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
As it turned out, modern tomatoes lack sufficient sugars and volatile chemicals critical to better flavor.
(Scientists develop genetic path to tastier tomatoes, NSF)
At a certain time each morning the cooks turned out, fires were built, and breakfast was eaten.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
This lady, ma'am, he answered, turned out to be Mr. Rochester's wife!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
For then the Marches, Laurences, Brookes and Bhaers turned out in full force and made a day of it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
