Return

[rɪ'tɜːn] or [rɪ'tɝn]

Definition

(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.

Checker: Raymond--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Typed by Jerry

Synonyms and Synonymous

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.

Edited by Bridget

Synonyms and Antonyms

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

Inputed by Frances

Definition

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.

Checker: Seymour