Sekirov Dictionary

return

UK /ɹɪˈtɜːn/US /ɹɪˈtɝn/

verb20

  1. to go back to someone or somewhere
  2. To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
  3. To place or put back something where it had been.
  4. To give something back to its original holder or owner.
  5. To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
  6. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
  7. To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call, electronic message, etc.).
  8. To recur; to come again.
  9. To say in reply; to respond.
  10. (old-fashioned) To retort; to throw back.
  11. To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
  12. To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
  13. To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
  14. To play a card as a result of another player’s lead.
  15. To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
  16. (Commonwealth) To elect to a certain office.
  17. To report, or bring back and make known.
  18. To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
  19. (no longer used) To turn back, retreat.
  20. (no longer used) To turn (something) round.

noun16

  1. The act of returning.
  2. The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
  3. The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
  4. A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
  5. Gain or loss from an investment.
  6. 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.
  7. A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
  8. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
  9. A return ticket.
  10. A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
  11. An answer.
  12. A carriage return character.
  13. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
  14. 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.
  15. A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
  16. A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
forms

return'd · returned · returnedst · returning · returneth · returns · returnest

Phrases with return

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