apple turnover

apple turnover
a pastry dessert filled with pieces of sweetened apples, so named because the pastry is folded (turned) over to enclose the filling.

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  • apple turnover — noun turnover with an apple filling • Hypernyms: ↑turnover …   Useful english dictionary

  • Apple pie — Ap ple pie A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. [1913 Webster] {Apple pie bed}, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Apple-pie bed — Apple pie Ap ple pie A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. [1913 Webster] {Apple pie bed}, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Apple-pie order — Apple pie Ap ple pie A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. [1913 Webster] {Apple pie bed}, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • turnover — n. movement of goods 1) a brisk, rapid turnover filled pastry 2) an apple turnover * * * [ tɜːnəʊvə] rapid turnover [ filled pastry ] an apple turnover [ movement of goods ] a brisk …   Combinatory dictionary

  • turnover — turn|o|ver [ˈtə:nˌəuvə US ˈtə:rnˌouvər] n 1.) [singular, U] BrE the amount of business done during a particular period turnover of ▪ The illicit drugs industry has an annual turnover of some £200 bn. turnover rose/fell ▪ Turnover rose 9%. 2.)… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • turnover — noun 1 (singular) the amount of business done in a particular period, measured by the amount of money earned: an annual turnover of 5.6 million 2 (singular) the rate at which people leave an organization and are replaced by others: Low pay… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • apple-pie bed — noun : a bed in which as a joke the sheets are doubled like the cover of an apple turnover to prevent anyone from stretching at full length between them * * * a bed that has been short sheeted as a joke. Also called pie bed. [1770 80] * * * apple …   Useful english dictionary

  • turnover — {n.} 1. The proportion of expenditure and income realized in a business; the volume of traffic in a business. * /Our turnover is so great that in two short years we tripled our original investment and are expanding at a great rate./ 2. Triangular …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • turnover — {n.} 1. The proportion of expenditure and income realized in a business; the volume of traffic in a business. * /Our turnover is so great that in two short years we tripled our original investment and are expanding at a great rate./ 2. Triangular …   Dictionary of American idioms

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