'Return' definitions:

Definition of 'return'

(from WordNet)
noun
Document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability; "his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return" [syn: tax return, income tax return, return]
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A coming to or returning home; "on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party" [syn: return, homecoming]
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The occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction [syn: return, coming back]
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Getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing" [syn: restitution, return, restoration, regaining]
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The act of going back to a prior location; "they set out on their return to the base camp"
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The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" [syn: return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff]
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Happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring" [syn: recurrence, return]
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A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher" [syn: rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback, counter]
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The key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed [syn: return key, return]
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A reciprocal group action; "in return we gave them as good as we got" [syn: return, paying back, getting even]
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A tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player; "he won the point on a cross-court return"
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(American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
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The act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited" [syn: reappearance, 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"
verb
Give back; "render money" [syn: render, return]
verb
Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" [syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back]
verb
Go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" [syn: hark back, return, come back, recall]
verb
Bring back to the point of departure [syn: return, take back, bring back]
verb
Return in kind; "return a compliment"; "return her love"
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Make a return; "return a kickback"
verb
Answer back [syn: retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin]
verb
Be restored; "Her old vigor returned" [syn: come back, return]
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Pay back; "Please refund me my money" [syn: refund, return, repay, give back]
verb
Pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment" [syn: render, deliver, return]
verb
Elect again [syn: reelect, return]
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Be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" [syn: fall, return, pass, devolve]
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Return to a previous position; in mathematics; "The point returned to the interior of the figure"
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" [syn: render, yield, return, give, generate]
verb
Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority; "submit a bill to a legislative body"

Definition of 'Return'

From: GCIDE
  • Return \Re*turn"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Returned; p. pr. & vb. n. Returning.] [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. [1913 Webster]
  • On their embattled ranks the waves return. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. --Gen. iii. 19. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. [1913 Webster]
  • With the year Seasons return; but not me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. [1913 Webster]
  • He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To revert; to pass back into possession. [1913 Webster]
  • And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David. --1Kings xii. 26. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To go back in thought, narration, or argument. "But to return to my story." --Fielding. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Return'

From: GCIDE
  • Return \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. [1913 Webster]
  • At the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. --1 Kings xx. 22. [1913 Webster]
  • His personal return was most required and necessary. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • You made my liberty your late request: Is no return due from a grateful breast? --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which is returned. Specifically: (a) A payment; a remittance; a requital. [1913 Webster]
  • I do expect return Of thrice three times the value of this bond. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Arch.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Mil. & Naval) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. pl. (Fort. & Mining) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Return'

From: GCIDE
  • Return \Re*turn"\, v. t.
  • 1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. [1913 Webster]
  • Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite. [1913 Webster]
  • The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head. --1 Kings ii. 44. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. [1913 Webster]
  • If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To report, or bring back and make known. [1913 Webster]
  • And all the people answered together, . . . and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord. --Ex. xix. 8. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. [1913 Webster]
  • Instead of a ship, he should levy money, and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. (Tennis) To bat (the ball) back over the net. [1913 Webster]
  • 12. (Card Playing) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. [1913 Webster]
  • To return a lead (Card Playing), to lead the same suit led by one's partner. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To restore; requite; repay; recompense; render; remit; report. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'return'

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Words containing 'Return'