Turn downとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

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

1. (idiomatic) To refuse, decline, or deny.

   He turned down all our offers of help.

   Antonym: take up

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 17:

     A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, "Have to get something better this trip, Edmund. Got to pull up somehow or buyers will be turnin' us down. Sales been gettin' worse and worse these last years."

   • 2022 August 24, Paul Clifton, “Many disabled passengers are excluded from using the route”, in RAIL, number 964, page 29:

     Govia Thameslink Railway declined to comment on the study and turned down our request for an interview to address the issues raised.

2. (idiomatic) To reduce the power, etc. of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.

   Turn down the television so I can hear myself think.

   When it starts to boil, turn down the heat to a simmer.

3. (idiomatic) To reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction; to double or fold down.

   Turn down the blankets to let them air out.

使用する際の注意点

In all senses the object 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 “refuse”): accept
• (antonym(s) of “reduce power”): turn up

関連する語

• turn over

参照

• “turn down”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• down-turn, downturn

名詞

turndown (plural turndowns)

1. A downturn.
   • 2009 January 3, Amy Zipkin, “Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.

2. A rejection.
3. (hotels) The service of turning down the bedcovers and often leaving chocolates, etc., on the pillow.
   • 2006, June Eveleigh Brown, Karen Brown, Lorena Aburto Ramirez, Karen Brown's Spain, page 38:

     Also, the amenities vary between the paradors: almost all that we visited had hairdryers, many had small refrigerators in the room, and some even had bathrobes and turndown service.

4. A downward pointing extension to a vehicle muffler.
5. (engineering) The operational range of a device.

形容詞

turndown (not comparable)

1. Capable of being turned down, or decreased in intensity.

   a turndown lamp

2. Made to wear with the upper part turned down.

   a turndown collar

アナグラム

• down-turn, downturn