'turn out' definitions:

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" [syn: prove, turn out, turn up]

Prove to be in the result or end; "It turns out that he was right"

Produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery; "This factory turns out saws"

Result or end; "How will the game turn out?" [syn: turn out, come out]

Come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons; "How many people turned out that evening?"

Bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" [syn: bear, turn out]

Put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" [syn: eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out]

Come and gather for a public event; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York"

Outfit or equip, as with accessories; "The actors were turned out lavishly"

Turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" [syn: turn out, splay, spread out, rotate]

Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights" [syn: switch off, cut, turn off, turn out] [ant: switch on, turn on]

Get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in]