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tourner in English:

1. spin spin


My head is spinning.
After dinner, we took a spin around town in my car.
Silkworms spin cocoons.
I drank too much and the ground seemed to spin under my feet.
Can you spin a basketball on your fingertip?
The room started to spin after I drank too much.
I learned how to spin wool from watching my grandmother.
I saw the room spin and then I fainted.
The skater performed a spectacular spin. Mars spins on its axis at approximately the same rate as Earth.
I hit something on the road, which sent the car into a spin. Suddenly, the plane went into a spin.
I felt dizzy and the whole world was spinning.
An example of fallacy is the idea that the sun spins around the earth.
I think I've drunk too much. It seems to me the world is spinning.
That popular television series is going to spin off two new shows in the fall.
I'm so busy these days it makes my head spin. I don't even have time to watch a video.

English word "tourner"(spin) occurs in sets:

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2. to turn to turn


You need to turn left to get to the nearest cash machine.
Don't forget to turn right.

English word "tourner"(to turn) occurs in sets:

500 most important French verbs 101 - 125
Travelling and tourism - Voyage et tourisme
La cité et les moyens des transports
Basic verbs - Verbes basiques
Traffic - La circulation

3. revolve revolve


The earth revolves on its axis.
The world doesn't revolve around you.
The planets revolve around the sun.
Earth revolves around the sun
As if the world revolves around you.
The way all of this is going to turn out revolves around Bob. The success of the picnic revolves around the weather.
the gear revolves, it turns the other gears. The Earth revolves on its axis. The software allows you to revolve images.
revolve = rotate
i still revolve around you without a name.
There are a number of answers to this question, but generally they tend to revolve around three central points:

English word "tourner"(revolve) occurs in sets:

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4. rotate rotate


The satellite slowly rotates as it circles the Earth.
He rotated the picture

English word "tourner"(rotate) occurs in sets:

TOEFL - Most important words 401 - 425
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