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RETURN
reappearance, return
(noun) the act of someone appearing again; “his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited”
return, homecoming
(noun) a coming to or returning home; “on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party”
restitution, return, restoration, regaining
(noun) getting something back again; “upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”
return
(noun) the act of going back to a prior location; “they set out on their return to the base camp”
return
(noun) (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
return
(noun) a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player; “he won the point on a cross-court return”
return, paying back, getting even
(noun) a reciprocal group action; “in return we gave them as good as we got”
rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback, counter
(noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); “it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher”
recurrence, return
(noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals); “the return of spring”
return, coming back
(noun) the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
(noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; “the average return was about 5%”
revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
(verb) go back to a previous state; “We reverted to the old rules”
retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin
(verb) answer back
return
(verb) submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority; “submit a bill to a legislative body”
render, deliver, return
(verb) pass down; “render a verdict”; “deliver a judgment”
return
(verb) make a return; “return a kickback”
render, yield, return, give, generate
(verb) give or supply; “The cow brings in 5 liters of milk”; “This year’s crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn”; “The estate renders some revenue for the family”
return
(verb) go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; “return to your native land”; “the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean”
return
(verb) return to a previous position; in mathematics; “The point returned to the interior of the figure”
refund, return, repay, give back
(verb) pay back; “Please refund me my money”
render, return
(verb) give back; “render money”
return
(verb) return in kind; “return a compliment”; “return her love”
reelect, return
(verb) elect again
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
return (third-person singular simple present returns, present participle returning, simple past and past participle returned)
(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
(intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
(intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
(transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
(transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
(transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
(tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
(card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
(cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
(transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
(intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
(transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
(transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
(transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
(by extension, UK) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
Noun
return (plural returns)
The act of returning.
A return ticket.
An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
An answer.
An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
Gain or loss from an investment.
(taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
(computing) A carriage return character.
(computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
(computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from central plant).
A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
(American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
(cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
(architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
Synonyms
• (the act of returning): gaincoming
Anagrams
• Turner, turner
Source: Wiktionary
Re-turn", v. t. & i.
Definition: To turn again.
Re*turn", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Returned; p. pr. & vb. n. Returning.] Etym: [OE. returnen, retournen, F. retourner; pref. re- re- + tourner to turn. See Turn.]
1. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." Chaucer. On their embattled ranks the waves return. Milton. If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. Locke. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19.
2. To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. With the year Seasons return; but not me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn. Milton.
3. To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned. Pope.
4. To revert; to pass back into possession. And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David. 1Kings xii. 26.
5. To go back in thought, narration, or argument. "But to return to my story." Fielding.
Re*turn", v. t.
1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye. Spenser.
2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite. The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head. 1 Kings ii. 44.
4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
5. To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am. Dryden.
6. To report, or bring back and make known. And all the people answered together, . . . and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord. Ex. xix. 8.
7. To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
8. Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. [Eng.]
9. To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
10. To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. Instead of a ship, he should llevy money, and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use. Clarendon.
11. (Tennis)
Definition: To bat (the ball) back over the net.
12. (Card Playing)
Definition: To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. To return a lead (Card Playing), to lead the same suit led by one's partner.
Syn.
– To restore; requite; repay; recompense; render; remit; report.
Re*turn", n.
1. The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary. At the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. 1 Kings xx. 22. His personal return was most required and necessary. Shak.
2. The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis. You made my liberty your late request: Is no return due from a grateful breast Dryden.
3. That which is returned. Specifically: (a) A payment; a remittance; a requital. I do expect return Of thrice three times the value of this bond. Shak.
(b) An answer; as, a return to one's question. (c) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information. (d) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. The fruit from many days of recreation is very little; but from these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great. Jer. Taylor.
4. (Arch.)
Definition: The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
5. (Law) (a) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. (b) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. (c) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. (d) A day in bank. See Return day, below. Blackstone.
6. (Mil. & Naval)
Definition: An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
7. pl. (Fort. & Mining)
Definition: The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. Return ball, a ball held by an elastic string so that it returns to the hand from which it is thrown, -- used as a plaything.
– Return bend, a pipe fitting for connecting the contiguous ends of two nearly parallel pipes lying alongside or one above another.
– Return day (Law), the day when the defendant is to appear in court, and the sheriff is to return the writ and his proceedings.
– Return flue, in a steam boiler, a flue which conducts flame or gases of combustion in a direction contrary to their previous movement in another flue.
– Return pipe (Steam Heating), a pipe by which water of condensation from a heater or radiator is conveyed back toward the boiler.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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