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turn
(redirected from speaking out of turn)

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turn
1. Music a melodic ornament that makes a turn around a note, beginning with the note above, in a variety of sequences
2. Theatre chiefly Brit a short theatrical act, esp in music hall, cabaret, etc.

(messaging, protocol)TURN - An SMTP command with which a client asks the server to open an SMTP connection to the client, thus reversing their roles.

Superseded by ETRN.


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Speaking out of turn, too, apparently, was Pam Iorio, the Democratic elections supervisor of Florida's Hillsborough County; she cheerfully told a reporter, the day the Supreme Court stayed the last official recount, that her canvassing board had kept right on separating "under-vote" ballots that afternoon, the better to tally them expeditiously should the count resume.
Hirschfeld was warned numerous times by Judge Joseph Lisa to refrain from speaking out of turn or he would be forced to leave the hearing.
``I don't think I'm speaking out of turn when I tell you that it's going to be a little time as far as Dreif's concerned,'' Tracy said.
 
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