turn on

Questions about turn on

What does turn on mean?

turn on means "cause to operate by flipping a switch". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for turn on?

Close synonyms include switch on, depend on, devolve on, depend upon, ride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turn on a common word?

turn on is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.