advantage

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1.To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel. [1913 Webster]

The gate . . . on golden hinges turning.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact. [1913 Webster]

Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war.— Swift.[1913 Webster]

3.To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue. [1913 Webster]

If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and serve him faithfully, afflictions shall turn to our advantage.— Wake.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Turn from thy fierce wrath.— Ex. xxxii. 12.[1913 Webster]

Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways.— Ezek. xxxiii. 11.[1913 Webster]

The understanding turns inward on itself, and reflects on its own operations.— Locke.[1913 Webster]

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 Muslim. [1913 Webster]

I hope you have no intent to turn husband.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Cygnets from gray turn white.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

6.To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well. [1913 Webster]

7.Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc. [1913 Webster] (b) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain. [1913 Webster]

I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (c) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach. [1913 Webster] (d) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales. [1913 Webster] (e) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide. [1913 Webster] (f) (Obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. [1913 Webster]

8.(Print.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. [1913 Webster]

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 To turn 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 To turn 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; 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. [1913 Webster]

1.Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. [1913 Webster]

Give me advantage of some brief discourse.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

The advantages of a close alliance.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

2.Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. [1913 Webster]

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.— 2 Cor. ii. 11.[1913 Webster]

3.Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution. [1913 Webster]

4.Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

And with advantage means to pay thy love.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

5.(Tennis) The first point scored after deuce. [PJC]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]

What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? --Luke ix. 25. [1913 Webster]

To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]