Give me advantage of some brief discourse. --Shak.
The advantages of a close alliance. --Macaulay.
2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. --2 Cor.
ii. 11.
3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit;
gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth
in the baker's dozen). [Obs.]
And with advantage means to pay thy love. --Shak.
{Advantage ground}, vantage ground. [R.] --Clarendon.
{To have the advantage of} (any one), to have a personal
knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge.
``You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to
have had the honor.'' --Sheridan.
{To take advantage of}, to profit by; (often used in a bad
sense) to overreach, to outwit.
Syn: {Advantage}, {Advantageous}, {Benefit}, {Beneficial}.
Usage: We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial,
when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits
of early discipline; the beneficial effects of
adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as
advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting
forward, and places us on a ``vantage ground'' for
further effort. Hence, there is a difference between
the benefits and the advantages of early education;
between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of
money.
The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and
averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged
his adversaries against him. --Fuller.
What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world,
and lose himself, or be cast away? --Luke ix. 25.
{To advantage one's self of}, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]
The gate . . . on golden hinges turning. --Milton.
2. Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge;
to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of
war. --Swift.
3. To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to
issue.
If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and
serve him faithfully, afflictions shall turn to our
advantage. --Wake.
4. To be deflected; to take a different direction or
tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently
applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.
Turn from thy fierce wrath. --Ex. xxxii.
12.
Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways. --Ezek.
xxxiii. 11.
The understanding turns inward on itself, and
reflects on its own operations. --Locke.
5. To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become
transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to
grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one
color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
I hope you have no intent to turn husband. --Shak.
Cygnets from gray turn white. --Bacon.
6. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory
turns well.
7. Specifically:
(a) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
(b) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn. --Shak.
(c) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
(d) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of
scales.
(e) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; --
said of the tide.
(f) (Obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the
womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
8. (Print.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as
temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
{To turn about}, to face to another quarter; to turn around.
{To turn again}, to come back after going; to return. --Shak.
{To turn against}, to become unfriendly or hostile to.
{To turn} {aside or away}.
(a) To turn from the direct course; to withdraw from a
company; to deviate.
(b) To depart; to remove.
(c) To avert one's face.
{To turn back}, to turn so as to go in an opposite direction;
to retrace one's steps.
{To turn in}.
(a) To bend inward.
(b) To enter for lodgings or entertainment.
(c) To go to bed. [Colloq.]
{To turn into}, to enter by making a turn; as, to turn into a
side street.
{To turn off}, to be diverted; to deviate from a course; as,
the road turns off to the left.
{To turn on} or {upon}.
(a) To turn against; to confront in hostility or anger.
(b) To reply to or retort.
(c) To depend on; as, the result turns on one condition.
{To turn out}.
(a) To move from its place, as a bone.
(b) To bend or point outward; as, his toes turn out.
(c) To rise from bed. [Colloq.]
(d) To come abroad; to appear; as, not many turned out to
the fire.
(e) To prove in the result; to issue; to result; as, the
crops turned out poorly.
{To turn over}, to turn from side to side; to roll; to
tumble.
{To turn round}.
(a) To change position so as to face in another direction.
(b) To change one's opinion; to change from one view or
party to another.
{To turn to}, to apply one's self to; have recourse to; to
refer to. ``Helvicus's tables may be turned to on all
occasions.'' --Locke.
{To turn to account}, {profit}, {advantage}, or the like, to
be made profitable or advantageous; to become worth the
while.
{To turn under}, to bend, or be folded, downward or under.
{To turn up}.
(a) To bend, or be doubled, upward.
(b) To appear; to come to light; to transpire; to occur;
to happen.