Return
[rɪ'tɜːn] or [rɪ'tɝn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a coming to or returning home; 'on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party'.
(noun.) the act of going back to a prior location; 'they set out on their return to the base camp'.
(noun.) (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble.
(noun.) a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player; 'he won the point on a cross-court return'.
(noun.) a reciprocal group action; 'in return we gave them as good as we got'.
(noun.) the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction.
(noun.) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; 'the average return was about 5%'.
(verb.) submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority; 'submit a bill to a legislative body'.
(verb.) make a return; 'return a kickback'.
(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'.
(verb.) return to a previous position; in mathematics; 'The point returned to the interior of the figure'.
(verb.) return in kind; 'return a compliment'; 'return her love'.
(verb.) bring back to the point of departure.
整理:雷蒙德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
(v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
(v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
(v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.
(v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
(v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
(v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
(v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
(v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
(v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
(v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
(v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
(v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which is returned.
(n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital.
(n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
(n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.
(n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
(n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
杰里手打
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Revert, recur, turn back, go or come back, get back.
v. a. [1]. Restore, give back, send back.[2]. Repay, refund.[3]. Report, communicate, give or render an account of.
n. [1]. Repayment, reimbursement.[2]. Recompense, reward, requital.[3]. Advantage, benefit, profit, interest.[4]. Official account.
布丽奇特編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Recur, revert, reappear, come_back, repay, requite, recompense, retaliate,render, restore, yield, produce, give_back, repay
ANT:Depart, remove, vanish, disappear, retain, appropriate, misappropriate,alienate, withhold
弗朗西丝編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to come back to the same place or state: to answer: to retort: to turn back: to repeat: to revert: to recur: to reappear.—v.t. to bring or send back: to transmit: to give back: to repay: to give back in reply: to report: to give an account: to cast back: to reflect: to re-echo: to revolve: to restore: to requite: to return a call: to elect as a member of parliament: in card-playing to lead back in response to the lead of one's partner: in tennis to bat the ball back over the net: in fencing to give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.—n. the act of going back: revolution: periodic renewal: the act of bringing or sending back: restitution: repayment: the profit on capital or labour: a reply: a report or account esp. official: (pl.) a light-coloured and mild kind of tobacco: (law) the rendering back of a writ to the proper officer: (mil.) the return of the men fit for duty: (archit.) the continuation in a different direction of the face of a building as a moulding.—adj. Retur′nable legally requiring to be returned.—ns. Return′-bend a pipe-coupling in the shape of the letter ; Return′-car′go a cargo brought back in place of merchandise previously sent out; Return′-check a ticket for readmission; Return′-day the day fixed when the defendant is to appear in court; Retur′ner; Retur′ning-off′icer the officer who makes returns of writs &c.: the presiding officer at an election.—adj. Return′less.—ns. Return′-match a second match played by the same set of players; Return′-shock an electric shock due to the action of induction sometimes felt after a lightning-flash; Return′-tag a tag attached to a railway-car as evidence of its due arrival; Return′-tick′et a ticket issued by a company for a journey and its return usually at a reduced charge; Return′-valve a valve which opens to allow reflux of a fluid in case of overflow.
手打:西摩
例句/造句/用法:
- If it is possible I will return to the Abruzzi. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- A hard-working man, and not overstrong, he would return to his home from the machine-shop where he was employed, and throw himself on the bed night after night to rest. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I went there on my return from Havre. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Since that, we have quarrelled, and I have vainly asked him to return me my farce or pay me for it. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Had they not better throw these bodies to the plant men and then return to their quarters, O Mighty One? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I don't know how it is, said he, but I had hoped for so much from his return. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He told me, in return, that he wondered I had arrived at my time of life, without knowing that a doctor's skin was waterproof. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- No, indeed, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a gentle melancholy upon her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Your decisions are perfectly judicious, madam, returned Mr. Brocklehurst. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It's simmering now, so I hope he'll keep out of my way, returned Jo, biting her lips as she glowered at Fred from under her big hat. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- His strength returned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been seen walking about the garden. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- We shall see,' returned the old gentleman with a searching glance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I made the first civil excuse that occurred to me for leaving Mr. Gilmore, and returned at once to the house. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- No, guardian, I returned, fearful of the light that dimly broke upon me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants' dinner; he knew what it was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He had met her before breakfast as he was returning from a walk with his little boys, when it had been just beginning to rain. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Emma turned round to look at her in consternation, and hastily said, Have you any idea of Mr. Knightley's returning your affection? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He had now announced his intention of returning to the scene of his exploits, and of penetrating into regions left still unexplored. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- On returning from Mrs. Vesey's, I instructed Marian to write (observing the same caution which I practised myself) to Mrs. Michelson. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Miss Bingley said something of his never returning to Netherfield again, of giving up the house, but not with any certainty. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- He was not satisfied with returning to his former position without seeing for himself whether anything could be accomplished. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A forfeit--a forfeit, shouted the robbers; a Saxon hath thirty zecchins, and returns sober from a village! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- My dear George, returns the elder, concentrating his strong steady brow upon him and smiling confidently, leave that to me, and let me try. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- If Mr. Hartright returns to England, hold no communication with him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Why, what I may think after dinner, returns Mr. Jobling, is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The making out of provision returns was stopped for the time. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I only said I wouldn't go without one of the servants came up to Sir Leicester Dedlock, returns Mr. Smallweed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
手打:西格蒙德