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out of turn

out of turn prepositional phrase: when it is not one's turn.

Prepositional phrase

  1. When it is not one's turn.
    • There are also controls to select out-of-turn working or acknowledge a warning that the programme-roll description of a train and train-describer description are at variance, [...].[...] The machines can automatically take account of late running of trains and, if it exceeds a pre-determined...1960 December, “More L.T. progress with programme machines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 758

out of turn meaning in Tamil and Kannada

out of turn in Tamil

முறப்படி வராத மாறாக, முறை மீறிய, முறைக்குப் புறம்பாக, மாறாக

out of turn in Kannada

ಪಾಳಿ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿದ, ಪಾಳಿ ತಪ್ಪಿದ

Questions about out of turn

What does out of turn mean?
Out of turn means when it is not one's turn.
What is out of turn in Tamil?
Out of turn in Tamil is முறப்படி வராத மாறாக, முறை மீறிய, முறைக்குப் புறம்பாக. See Out of turn meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is out of turn?
Out of turn is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of turn in the dictionary

  1. out of time
  2. out of touch
  3. out of town
  4. out of true
  5. out of tune
  6. out of turn
  7. out of universe
  8. out of use
  9. out of view
  10. out of wack
  11. out of wedlock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out of turn (page history and authors); out of turn (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); out of turn (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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