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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Profit \Prof"it\, v. i. 1. To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance. I profit not by thy talk. --Shak. 2. To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. --Prov. xi 4. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Profit \Pro"fit\, n. [F., fr L. profectus advance, progress, profit, fr profectum See {Proficient}.] 1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. --Rambler. 2. Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as an office of profit, This I speak for your own profit. --1 Cor. vii. 35. If you dare do yourself a profit and a right --Shak. Syn: Benefit; avail; service; improvement; advancement; gain; emolument. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Profit \Prof"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Profited}; p. pr & vb n. {Profiting}.] [F. profiter. See {Profit}, n.] To be of service to to be good to to help on to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as truth profits all men. The word preached did not profit them --Heb. iv 2. It is a great means of profiting yourself to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Turn \Turn\, v. i. 1. To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel. The gate . . . on golden hinges turning. --Milton. 2. Hence to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as the decision turns on a single fact Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war. --Swift. 3. To result or terminate; to come about to eventuate; to issue. If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and serve him faithfully, afflictions shall turn to our advantage. --Wake. 4. To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as to turn from the road. Turn from thy fierce wrath. --Ex. xxxii 12. Turn ye turn ye from your evil ways. --Ezek. xxxiii 11. The understanding turns inward on itself and reflects on its own operations. --Locke. 5. To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also to become by a change or changes; to grow; as wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan. I hope you have no intent to turn husband. --Shak. Cygnets from gray turn white. --Bacon. 6. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as ivory turns well 7. Specifically: a To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc b To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain. I'll look no more Lest my brain turn. --Shak. c To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach. d To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales. e To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide. f (Obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. 8. (Print.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. {To turn about}, to face to another quarter; to turn around {To turn again}, to come back after going; to return. --Shak. {To turn against}, to become unfriendly or hostile to {To turn} {aside or away}. a To turn from the direct course; to withdraw from a company; to deviate. b To depart; to remove. c To avert one's face. {To turn back}, to turn so as to go in an opposite direction; to retrace one's steps. {To turn in}. a To bend inward. b To enter for lodgings or entertainment. c To go to bed. [Colloq.] {To turn into}, to enter by making a turn; as to turn into a side street. {To turn off}, to be diverted; to deviate from a course; as the road turns off to the left {To turn on} or {upon}. a To turn against; to confront in hostility or anger. b To reply to or retort. c To depend on as the result turns on one condition. {To turn out}. a To move from its place as a bone. b To bend or point outward; as his toes turn out c To rise from bed. [Colloq.] d To come abroad; to appear; as not many turned out to the fire. e To prove in the result; to issue; to result; as the crops turned out poorly. {To turn over}, to turn from side to side to roll; to tumble. {To turn round}. a To change position so as to face in another direction. b To change one's opinion; to change from one view or party to another. {To turn to}, to apply one's self to have recourse to to refer to ``Helvicus's tables may be turned to on all occasions.'' --Locke. {To turn to account}, {profit}, {advantage}, or the like to be made profitable or advantageous; to become worth the while {To turn under}, to bend, or be folded, downward or under {To turn up}. a To bend, or be doubled, upward. b To appear; to come to light; to transpire; to occur; to happen. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: profit n 1: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time [syn: {net income}, {net}, {net profit}, {lucre}, {profits}, {earnings}] 2: the advantageous quality of being beneficial [syn: {gain}] v 1: derive benefit from [syn: {gain}, {benefit}] 2: make a profit; gain money or materially [ant: {lose}, {break even}]
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