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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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