Meanings of turn base in English

On completion of this task, she will, no doubt, go on to turn base metals into gold.

For many centuries the attempt to turn base metal into gold occupied a leading place in the researches of Chinese philosophers.

Using the formulae, he had learned how to turn base metal into gold and coal into diamonds, but there was very little magic involved.

Combat is turned based - you can either attack, defend or recharge.

We really take turns based on what opportunities are presented.

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the foreign minister, was sacked for demanding a new turn based on bilateral relations.

It's likely the source of myths about alchemy -the practise of turning base metals into gold, Miodownik says.

This game is one in which points are scored every turn based upon the amount of territory you occupy, plus bonuses.

The pails, as we will call them, were something like sugar loaves, with the tops cut off and turned base upwards.

The novel is in turn based loosely on a real-life Naples teenager, and the film is told with an unnerving matter-of-factness.

The Department for Communities and Local Government bases its funding decisions on population estimates which are in turn based on the census.

It mixes turn based play with base and resource management making each player pull out all their skills in order to succeed.

"You mean you can turn base metal into gold?"

Barbie was originally modelled on a German doll called Lillie, who was in turn based on a comic strip character described as a "gold-digging prostitute".