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Turn on

verb

Cause to operate by flipping a switch. Synonym: switch on. "Turn on the stereo"

Be contingent on. Synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, ride. "Your grade will depends on your homework"

Produce suddenly or automatically. "Turn on the waterworks"

Become hostile towards.

Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused. Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse.

Stimulate sexually. Synonyms: arouse, excite, sex, wind up.

Get high, stoned, or drugged. Synonyms: get off, trip, trip out.

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"Turn on" Quotes from Famous Books

... here, the love-business in the Odyssey is artificial and described by one who had never felt it, whereas in the Iliad it is spontaneous and obviously genuine, as by one who knows all about it perfectly well. The love-business in fact of the Odyssey is turned on as we turn on the gas—when we cannot get on without it, but ...

— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler

... could connect all the spigots and control them by a single movement, so that once attached, he had only to press a button concealed in the woodwork to turn on all the taps at the same time and fill the mugs ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... wagon were not so shaky," said Mrs. Peterkin "we might drive over every morning for our bath. The road is very straight, and I suppose Agamemnon can turn on the beach." ...

— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale

... inside the door. It is particularly comforting when some stranger rings the doorbell late at night and one does not feel overpleased to be called upon to open the door to an invisible person. Other switch arrangements make it possible to turn on the upper hall lights from below, or the lower hall lights from above, and the lights in each room from the hall. When there are unseemly noises downstairs in the wee sma' hours it is much more agreeable to gaze over the balustrade into a bright hall than to ...

— The Complete Home • Various

... little to do with the deeper questions of morality; nor did its evil consist merely in the choice of subjects which are painful to study, and of questionable influence on the mind. Many of the finest plays of Ford and Massinger and Webster turn on sin and crime, the study of which it might reasonably be contended must always have the effect of disturbing the moral sense, if not of actually depraving the mind. But no one can pretend to find in the best of the Elizabethan ...

— A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) • Justin McCarthy

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