Turn upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

turn up (third-person singular simple present turns up, present participle turning up, simple past and past participle turned up)

1. (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.

   Is this your t-shirt that turned up in my drawer?

   I don't like people turning up without an appointment.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward […]

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.

2. (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.

   I spent hours in the archives, but couldn't turn up anything on the alleged criminal.

3. (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.

   Turn up the radio and sing along.

   • 2023 May 25, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, “Dance the Night”, in Barbie the Album‎, performed by Dua Lipa:

     Turn the rhythm up, don't you wanna just
     Come along for the ride?

4. (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.

   He turned up his collar against the cold.

5. (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).

   Turn up the main halyard.

6. (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.

   We're going to turn up at the concert tonight.

7. (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To acquit.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

     Thirty-six were cast for death, and only one was ‘topped’ (hanged), the very one that expected to be ‘turned up’ (acquitted) for highway robbery.

使用する際の注意点

• In senses 2, 3 and 4 the object is normally a thing, not a person. It may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “increase”): turn down

上位語

• turn

派生語

• a bad penny always turns up
• turn it up
• turnt up
• turn up the volume on
• turn up missing
• turn up one's nose
• turn up one's toes
• turn up the heat
• turn up trumps

名詞

turn up (plural turn ups)

1. Alternative spelling of turn-up

派生語

• turn up for the book

アナグラム

• upturn

語源

Deverbal from turn up.

名詞

turn-up (plural turn-ups)

1. Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.

   Synonyms: cuff, (US) trouser cuff

   Why does all this fluff accumulate in the turn-ups?

2. (dated) A fight or disturbance.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 26, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     I was passable enough when I went with the tinker, though nothing to boast of then; but what with blowing the fire with my mouth when I was young, and spileing my complexion, and singeing my hair off, and swallering the smoke, and what with being nat’rally unfort’nate in the way of running against hot metal and marking myself by sich means, and what with having turn-ups with the tinker as I got older, almost whenever he was too far gone in drink—which was almost always—my beauty was queer, wery queer, even at that time.

3. (card games) The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.

   I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.

4. (figurative) A stroke of good luck; something that appears unexpectedly; especially in turn up for the book.
   • 1896, Henry Smurthwaite, Racing Illustrated, volume 3, page 236:

     Despondent settled down favourite, but ran badly, and the fielders had a fine turn up by the success of Carlton Spring, on whom Allsopp jumped off in front and stayed there.

   • 2001 December 9, Andrew Martin, “We like drinking too much, so why do we do it so badly?”, in The Observer‎:

     I thought ‘now here's a turn up’, for I was not to know I would be invited to drinks every day for the next three years.

5. (historical) A book, intended for children, with flaps that can be lifted to reveal underlying text or images.
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 138:

     Books with flaps which lifted up and down and known as "turn-ups" came about in 1795 and were listed in Laurie and Whittle's catalogue.

Further reading

• “turn-up n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “Turn up” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary […], 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 331.

アナグラム

• upturn