Word Finder - return

definition

The act of returning.

example

I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.

definition

A return ticket.

example

Do you want a one-way or a return?

definition

An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.

example

Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.

definition

An answer.

example

a return to one's question

definition

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.

example

election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold

definition

Gain or loss from an investment.

example

It yielded a return of 5%.

definition

: A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.

example

Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.

definition

A carriage return character.

definition

The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.

definition

A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.

definition

A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from central plant).

example

The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.

definition

A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.

definition

Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.

definition

A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.

definition

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.

example

A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

definition

To come or go back (to a place or person).

example

Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.

definition

To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

example

To return to my story [...]

definition

To turn back, retreat.

definition

To turn (something) round.

definition

To place or put back something where it had been.

example

Please return your hands to your lap.

definition

To give something back to its original holder or owner.

example

You should return the library book within one month.

definition

To take back something to a vendor for a refund.

example

If the goods don't work, you can return them.

definition

To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

definition

To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.

example

The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast.

definition

To play a card as a result of another player's lead.

example

If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.

definition

To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.

definition

To say in reply; to respond.

example

to return an answer;  to return thanks;  "Do it yourself!" she returned.

definition

To relinquish control to the calling procedure.

definition

To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.

example

This function returns the number of files in the directory.

definition

To retort; to throw back.

example

to return the lie

definition

To report, or bring back and make known.

example

to return the result of an election

definition

(by extension) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.

I have something to return to you.

I've gotta return to Florida.

It's best if you and Howie return to Keene.

A snow storm cancelled our return flight Sunday.

At noon he would come in from a path in the woods, eat and then return by the same path.

Rome was saved; but Coriolanus could never return to his home, his mother, his wife and children.

I can only describe the mood of our return trip as pensive.

It was a beautiful morning and there was plenty of time to kill as Howie wasn't schedule to return to the house until late afternoon.

This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet.

The return address was the Doctor's office in Chicago.

We heard him come downstairs and when he didn't return, I came down to check on him.

Betsy and I faced a six hour return trip to New York.

About thirty minutes later it would return and leave the way it had come.

And yet, now the twins could return to their beloved ranch – the one she had finished paying off.

Her parent's pleas for her return produced front page news.

Facebook doesn't return her call.

It was already the beginning of June when on his return journey he drove into the birch forest where the gnarled old oak had made so strange and memorable an impression on him.

I didn't hear him return.

He would cab to the airport in the morning and return to California.

I'll return your life to you.

Thanks for the fire--we'll return it with interest, said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick.

With a great effort he tried to return to life and to see things from their point of view.

Before they had ridden to the outskirts of the forest Petya had considered he must carry out his instructions strictly and return at once.

If it is so, then I.ll return it to you.

It will be some time before I return.

At first she had hoped, even prayed he would return.

The story related the successful return of a young boy kidnapped from his San Francisco home.

Please don't be surprised if Mr. Bylun opts not to return your call.

She left the library to return Damian's phone.

Even the doctor had no idea if or how quickly he would return to normal.

She shook her head and focused on her phone again, willing Logan to return one of her dozens of calls or texts.

You sleep with a wacko, your boyfriend won't return your calls.

If he admitted not to killing Wynn, she'd return immediately.

I.ll promise to return.

They allow for easy return of merchandise that doesn't meet my expectations, decreasing my fear of making a bad purchasing decision.

On her return to the house after her visit to the cemetery, she ran to the closet where these toys were kept, and carried them to my friend, saying, "They are poor little Florence's."

While he yearned to return to New Hampshire I sensed he possessed a strong guilt, locking him to his mother's bedside.

I wasted no time telephoning the Leblanc's number to encourage my wife to return home.

I know one way to return your power to you.

Heartbroken by his return to the slave he was, Sofia was stopped from comforting him by Dustin's grip on her arm.

You're not going to return his money are you?

He would never return underground!

I think it will be difficult to return to the old regime.

If the doctors did not keep me here at the spas I should be back in Russia, but as it is I have to postpone my return for three months.

The old count went home, and Natasha and Petya promised to return very soon, but as it was still early the hunt went farther.

After the return of Alpatych from Smolensk the old prince suddenly seemed to awake as from a dream.

Kutuzov made a grimace and sent an order to Dokhturov to take over the command of the first army, and a request to the duke--whom he said he could not spare at such an important moment--to return to him.

The nearer the time came for Petya to return, the more uneasy grew the countess.

When he woke up on the morning after his return to Moscow and his interview with Count Rostopchin, he could not for some time make out where he was and what was expected of him.

A healthy man can tear himself away from the deepest reflections to say a civil word to someone who comes in and can then return again to his own thoughts.