do vs turn

do

verb
  • To finish. 

  • To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc. 

  • To suffice. 

  • To fare, perform (well or poorly). 

  • To have (as an effect). 

  • To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something). 

  • A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE. 

  • A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be. 

  • To take drugs. 

  • To exist with a purpose or for a reason. 

  • To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned. 

  • To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of. 

  • To be reasonable or acceptable. 

  • To have sex with. (See also do it) 

  • To have as one's job. 

  • To cook. 

  • To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate. 

  • To punish for a misdemeanor. 

  • To make or provide. 

  • A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods. 

  • To treat in a certain way. 

  • To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for. 

  • A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods. 

  • Let’s do New York also. 

  • To kill. 

  • To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note. 

  • To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time) 

  • To impersonate or depict. 

  • To injure (one's own body part). 

  • To perform; to execute. 

  • To cheat or swindle. 

num
  • The cardinal number occurring after el and before do one in a duodecimal system. Written 10, decimal value 12. 

noun
  • A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale. 

  • A homicide. 

  • A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality. 

  • Something that can or should be done. 

turn

verb
  • To complete. 

  • To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. 

  • To magically or divinely attack undead. 

  • To be nauseated; said of the stomach. 

  • To change the color of the leaves in the autumn. 

  • To sour or spoil; to go bad. 

  • To reach a certain age. 

  • To sicken; to nauseate. 

  • Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. 

  • To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc. 

  • To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds. 

  • To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated. 

  • To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt. 

  • To become (begin to be). 

  • To change fundamentally; to metamorphose. 

  • To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc. 

  • To make (money); turn a profit. 

  • Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. 

  • To navigate through a book or other printed material. 

  • To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation. 

  • To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle. 

  • Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself. 

  • To change one's direction of travel. 

  • Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. 

  • To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa. 

  • To become giddy; said of the head or brain. 

  • To undergo the process of turning on a lathe. 

  • To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe. 

  • To hinge; to depend. 

noun
  • The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em. 

  • A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others. 

  • A change in temperament or circumstance. 

  • A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again. 

  • One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players. 

  • A single loop of a coil. 

  • Character; personality; nature. 

  • A short skit, act, or routine. 

  • A fit or a period of giddiness. 

  • A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement. 

  • A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight). 

  • A pass behind or through an object. 

  • An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. 

  • A walk to and fro. 

  • A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule. 

  • The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices. 

  • A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice. 

  • A change of direction or orientation. 

  • A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation. 

  • The time required to complete a project. 

How often have the words do and turn occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )