half-turn

[ haf-turn, hahf- ]

noun

1. a 180-degree turn; a direct reversal of direction or orientation, as from front to back or left to right.

Example Sentences

For the team of four horses ought not to move on the surface of the relief, but to appear as if it came out of it in a half-turn.

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But the old knight did but half turn round, and then spake peevishly: Tush, man!

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All you have got to do is, go down the first circular stairway you come to, and then make a half-turn.

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Under cover of this smoke the Germans changed course, and made a half-turn to the north.

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Make a half turn and come back by the same road as far as the Chapelle (p. 84) Sainte-Fine cross roads.

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