turn on

(verb)

cause to operate by flipping a switch

All clip examples

• Christopher, turn on the lights. Christopher! (Scarlet Street)
• He'll walk again when I turn it on. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
• Then cut off the electrokinetic and turn on your ship's decomposure ray. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
• I'll turn on the dictorobitary so we may converse with them. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
• I was only going to turn on the televisor so you could see her movements. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)