half-turn


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half′-turn`



n.
a 180-degree turn; a direct reversal of direction or orientation, as from front to back or left to right.
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The half-turn of the staircase cut off the view of the lobby.
The next moment she was back in the place she had started from, with another half-turn on his part, so that they came again into the same relative positions.
Away from thee did I spring, and from thy snaky tresses: then stoodst thou there half-turned, and in thine eye caresses.
For reply, the old man half-turned, and, on his crutch, swinging his stump of leg in the air, began sidling hippity-hop into the grass hut.
That single half-turn causes the teeth lining the sides of the tool to form all of the threads at once.
The ball looped to Otamendi who, making amends for his earlier mistake, showed great athleticism to volley home on the half-turn.
He said: "Gueye reads the game well, he never seems to give the ball away and he knows how to catch people on the half-turn. He has the makings of a very good player.
"But your first thought should be thinking of getting on a half-turn and looking forward and then driving forward, which he did brilliantly.

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