The difference between Go and Turn

When used as nouns, go means the act of going, whereas turn means a change of direction or orientation.

When used as verbs, go means to move through space (especially to or through a place), whereas turn means of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.

check bellow for the other definitions of Go and Turn

  1. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To move: To move through space (especially to or through a place). To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. To leave; to move away. To walk; to travel on one's feet.

    Examples:

    "Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? There's no public transit where I'm going. Wow, look at him go!"

    "Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell."

    "Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library."

    "We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one."

    "We went swimming. Let's go shopping."

    "Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night."

  2. Go as a verb (intransitive, chiefly, of a, machine):

    To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

    Examples:

    "The engine just won't go anymore."

  3. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To start; to begin (an action or process).

    Examples:

    "Get ready, get set, go! [[on your marks, get set, go On your marks, get set, go]]! [[on your marks On your marks]], set, go!"

    "Here goes nothing. Let's go and hunt."

  4. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To take a turn, especially in a game.

    Examples:

    "It’s your turn; go."

  5. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attend.

    Examples:

    "I go to school at the schoolhouse. She went to Yale. They only go to church on Christmas."

  6. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To proceed: To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). To proceed (especially to do something foolish).

    Examples:

    "That went well. "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."

    "Why'd you have to go and do that?"

    "Why'd you have to go do that?"

    "He just went and punched the guy. "

  7. Go as a verb:

    To follow or travel along (a path): To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). To travel or pass along.

    Examples:

    "Let's go this way for a while."

    "She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was."

  8. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

    Examples:

    "This property goes all the way to the state line."

  9. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To lead (to a place); to give access to.

    Examples:

    "Does this road go to Fort Smith?"

  10. Go as a verb (copula):

    To become.

    Examples:

    "You'll go blind. I went crazy / went mad. After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight."

  11. Go as a verb:

    To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

  12. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To continuously or habitually be in a state.

    Examples:

    "I don't want my children to go hungry. We went barefoot in the summer."

  13. Go as a verb:

    To come to (a certain condition or state).

    Examples:

    "they went into debt'', ''she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock'', ''the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global"

  14. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

    Examples:

    " The traffic light went straight from green to red."

  15. Go as a verb:

    To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

    Examples:

    "How did your meeting with Smith go?"

  16. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To tend (toward a result).

    Examples:

    "Well, that goes to show you. These experiences go to make us stronger."

  17. Go as a verb:

    To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

    Examples:

    "qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter"

  18. Go as a verb (intransitive, of time):

    To pass, to be used up: To elapse, to pass; to slip away. To end or disappear. To be spent or used up.

    Examples:

    "The time went slowly."

    "After three days, my headache finally went."

    "His money went on drink."

  19. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To die.

  20. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be discarded.

    Examples:

    "This chair has got to go."

  21. Go as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    To be lost or out: To be lost. To be out.

  22. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To break down or apart: To collapse or give way, to break apart. To break down or decay.

    Examples:

    "This meat is starting to go off. My mind is going. She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go."

  23. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be sold.

    Examples:

    "Everything must go. The car went for five thousand dollars."

  24. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

    Examples:

    "The property shall go to my wife. The award went to Steven Spielberg."

  25. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

    Examples:

    "How long can you go without water? We've gone without your help for a while now. I've gone ten days now without a cigarette. Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!"

  26. Go as a verb (transitive, sports):

    To have a certain record.

    Examples:

    "They've gone one for three in this series. The team is going five in a row."

  27. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be authoritative, accepted, or valid: To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. To be accepted. To be valid.

    Examples:

    "Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?"

    "Anything goes around here."

  28. Go as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To say (something), to make a sound: To say (something, aloud or to oneself). To make the (specified) sound. To sound; to make a noise.

    Examples:

    "I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"

    "As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."

    "Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom"."

    "I woke up just before the clock went."

  29. Go as a verb:

    To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

    Examples:

    "The tune goes like this. As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic."

  30. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To resort (to).

    Examples:

    "I'll go to court if I have to."

  31. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To apply or subject oneself to: To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). To work (through or over), especially mentally.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to join a sports team.'' ''I wish you'd go and get a job.'' ''He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach."

    "He's going to leave town tomorrow''."

    "You didn't have to go to such trouble. I never thought he'd go so far as to call you. She went to great expense to help them win."

    "I've gone over this a hundred times. Let's not go into that right now."

  32. Go as a verb (intransitive, often followed by a preposition):

    To fit (in a place, or together with something): To fit. To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. To belong (somewhere).

    Examples:

    "Do you think the sofa will go through the door? The belt just barely went around his waist."

    "This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes. White wine goes better with fish than red wine."

    "My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe. This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side."

  33. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To date.

    Examples:

    "How long having they been going together? He's been going with her for two weeks."

  34. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attack: To fight or attack. To attack.

    Examples:

    "I went at him with a knife."

  35. Go as a verb:

    To be in general; to be usually.

    Examples:

    "As sentences go, this one is pretty boring."

  36. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

    Examples:

    "Let's go halves on this."

  37. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To yield or weigh.

    Examples:

    "Those babies go five tons apiece."

  38. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

    Examples:

    "That's as high as I can go. We could go two fifty."

    "I'll go a ten-spot. I'll go you a shilling."

  39. Go as a verb (transitive, colloquial):

    To enjoy.

    Examples:

    "I could go a beer right about now."

  40. Go as a verb (intransitive, colloquial):

    To urinate or defecate.

    Examples:

    "I really need to go. Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?"

  1. Go as a noun (uncommon):

    The act of going.

  2. Go as a noun:

    A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

    Examples:

    "You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go."

    "It’s your go."

  3. Go as a noun:

    An attempt, a try.

    Examples:

    "I’ll give it a go."

  4. Go as a noun:

    An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

    Examples:

    "We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go."

  5. Go as a noun:

    An act; the working or operation.

  6. Go as a noun (slang, dated):

    A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.

  7. Go as a noun (dated):

    The fashion or mode.

    Examples:

    "quite the go"

  8. Go as a noun (dated):

    Noisy merriment.

    Examples:

    "a high go"

  9. Go as a noun (slang, archaic):

    A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

  10. Go as a noun:

    Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

    Examples:

    "There is no go in him."

  11. Go as a noun (cribbage):

    The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

  12. Go as a noun:

    A period of activity.

    Examples:

    "ate it all in one go"

  13. Go as a noun (obsolete, British slang):

    A dandy; a fashionable person.

  1. Go as a noun (board game):

    A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.

  1. Turn as a verb:

    to make a non-linear physical movement. Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself. To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation. to change one's direction of travel. to change the course of. To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe. To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt. To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds. To navigate through a book or other printed material. Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.

    Examples:

    "the Earth turns;  turn on the spot"

    "'Turn the knob clockwise."

    "She turned right at the corner."

    "She turned the table legs with care and precision."

    "'turn the bed covers;  turn the pages"

    "'turn to page twenty;  turn through the book"

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  2. Turn as a verb (intransitive):

    To change condition or attitude. To become . To change the color of the leaves in the autumn. To change fundamentally; to metamorphose. # To sour or spoil; to go bad. # To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle. To reach a certain age. To hinge; to depend. To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated. To change personal condition. # To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa. # To become giddy; said of the head or brain. #* #*: I'll look no more; / Lest my brain turn. # To sicken; to nauseate. # To be nauseated; said of the stomach.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: become get"

    "The leaves turn brown in autumn. When I asked him for the money, he turned nasty."

    "The hillside behind our house isn't generally much to look at, but once all the trees turn it's gorgeous."

    "Midas made everything turn to gold.  He turned into a monster every full moon."

    "This milk has turned; it smells awful."

    "to turn cider or wine"

    "Charlie turns six on September 29."

    "The decision turns on a single fact."

    "The prisoners turned on the warden."

    "The sight turned my stomach."

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  3. Turn as a verb (obsolete, reflexive):

    To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.

  4. Turn as a verb (transitive, usually with '''over'''):

    To complete.

    Examples:

    "They say they can turn the parts in two days."

  5. Turn as a verb (transitive):

    To make (money); turn a profit.

    Examples:

    "We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme."

  6. Turn as a verb (transitive, soccer):

    Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.

  7. Turn as a verb:

    To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.

    Examples:

    "Ivory turns well."

  8. Turn as a verb (obstetrics):

    To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

  9. Turn as a verb (printing, dated):

    To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

  10. Turn as a verb (archaic):

    To translate.

    Examples:

    "to turn the Iliad"

  11. Turn as a verb (transitive, role-playing games):

    To magically or divinely attack undead.

  1. Turn as a noun:

    A change of direction or orientation.

    Examples:

    "Give the handle a turn, then pull it."

  2. Turn as a noun (geometry):

    A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation. A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.

  3. Turn as a noun:

    A single loop of a coil.

  4. Turn as a noun:

    A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.

    Examples:

    "They took turns playing with the new toy."

  5. Turn as a noun:

    The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.

    Examples:

    "I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes."

  6. Turn as a noun:

    One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.

  7. Turn as a noun:

    A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.

  8. Turn as a noun:

    (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.

    Examples:

    "They quote a three-day turn on parts like those."

  9. Turn as a noun:

    A fit or a period of giddiness.

    Examples:

    "I've had a funny turn."

  10. Turn as a noun:

    A change in temperament or circumstance.

    Examples:

    "She took a turn for the worse."

  11. Turn as a noun (cricket):

    A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).

  12. Turn as a noun (poker):

    The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.

  13. Turn as a noun (poker, obsolete):

    The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.

  14. Turn as a noun:

    A deed done to another.

    Examples:

    "One good turn deserves another."

    "I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunitynb...."

  15. Turn as a noun (rope):

    A pass behind or through an object.

  16. Turn as a noun:

    Character; personality; nature.

  17. Turn as a noun (soccer):

    An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.

  18. Turn as a noun (circus, theatre, especially, physical comedy):

    A short skit, act, or routine.

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