Word Finder - returns

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The act of returning.

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I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.

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A return ticket.

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Do you want a one-way or a return?

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

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

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An answer.

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a return to one's question

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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.

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

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Gain or loss from an investment.

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It yielded a return of 5%.

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

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

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A carriage return character.

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The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

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To return to my story [...]

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To turn back, retreat.

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To turn (something) round.

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To place or put back something where it had been.

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Please return your hands to your lap.

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To give something back to its original holder or owner.

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You should return the library book within one month.

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To take back something to a vendor for a refund.

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

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To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

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

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

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

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

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

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To say in reply; to respond.

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

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To relinquish control to the calling procedure.

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To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.

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This function returns the number of files in the directory.

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To retort; to throw back.

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to return the lie

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To report, or bring back and make known.

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to return the result of an election

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

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Merchandise returned to the retailer, wholesaler or supplier.

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A mild, light-coloured kind of tobacco.

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The rendering back of a writ to the proper officer.

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The return of the soldiers fit for duty.

Maybe when he returns, your behavior will please him.

I wish you many happy returns of your name day, said the visitor.

Two burgesses were summoned to the parliaments of 1300, 1307 and 1309, but no further returns were made until 1625.

The census of 1895 increased this total to 3,954,9 11, exclusive of wild Indians and a percentage for omissions customarily used in South American census returns.

The repair being thus completed, the various mark buoys are picked up, and the ship returns to her usual station.

According to the official returns,' the over-sea immigration for the forty-seven years 1857-1903 aggregated 2,872,588, while the departure of emigrants during the same period was 1,066,480, showing a net addition to the population of 1,806,108.

According to the census returns of 1895, the total mileage was 496 m., representing a capital expenditure of $84,044,581 paper.

The collection of a part of the import duties in gold has served to give the government the gold it requires for certain expenditures, but it has complicated returns and accounts and increased the burden of taxation.

The revenue from stamps includes as its chief items the returns from stamped paper, stamps on goods traffic, securities and share certificates and receipts and cheques..

According to the returns for 1905 there were 7292 state schools, with 15,628 teachers and 648,927 pupils, and the average attendance of scholars was 446,000.

The leading silver mines are in New South Wales, the returns from the other states being comparatively insignificant.

Fermanagh returns two members to parliament, one each for the north and south divisions.

The ship now returns to the position of original attack, and by similar operations brings on board the end which secures communication with the other shore.

It returns 14 representatives to the Reichstag.

At Milan alone the official returns confessed to eighty killed and several hundred wounded, a total generally considered below the real figures.

Not only does the rainfall at one place vary from year to year, but there is an extraordinary difference in the returns for places quite close to one another.

The prices charged for dispensing are lower in countries where the number of pharmacies is limited by law, the larger returns enabling the profit to be lessened.

There are a number of large towns in the state, but the census returns include their populations in those of the municipios (communes) to which they belong.

According to returns published in 1905 the adherents of the different religious communities in the whole of the Russian empire numbered approximately as follows, though the heading Orthodox Greek includes a very great many Raskolniki or Dissenters.

Of these, 30 show returns of goods imported to the value of over £ioo,000 each, 41 from £50,000 to £roo,000, and 437 from £io,000 to £50,000 each.

Whilst the returns relating to the acreage of crops and the number of live stock in Great Britain have been officially collected in each year since 1866, the annual official estimates of the produce of the crops in the several sections of the kingdom do not extend back beyond 1885.

Under the act, as supplemented by an order of the Board of Agriculture in 1905, there were in that year 26 scheduled places in England and 10 in Scotland, or 36 altogether, from which returns were obtained.

The returns from Ireland under the Diseases of Animals Acts 1894 and 1896 are less significant than those of Great Britain.

Possibly the present generation of English industrial history will furnish many illustrations of the law of diminishing returns.

Closely related to the law of diminishing returns is the Theory of Rent.

Armed with this he returns through the successive hells, compelling the disclosure of every secret, depriving the rulers of their power, and barring the doors of the several regions.

That every natural series of beings, in its progress from a given point, either actually returns, or evinces a tendency to return, again to that point, thereby forming a circle.

Arab geographers and travellers of the middle ages speak in high terms of the gardens of Nisibis, and the magnificent returns obtained by the agriculturist.

The uneasiness caused by the excessive dependence of Great Britain upon the United States for cotton, coupled with the Recent belief that shortages of supply are more frequent than R they ought to be, and the fear that diminishing returns attempts to open may operate in America, occasioned the formation in England of the British Cotton Growing Association on.

Against the common view that miracles can attest the truth of a divine revelation Gerhard maintained that " per miracula non possunt probari oracula "; and Hopfner returns to the qualified position of Augustine when he describes them as praeter et supra naturae ordinem."

According to the custom-house returns the value of the foreign imports and exports in the year 1880 was L691,954 and L1,117,790 respectively, besides a large native trade carried on in junks.

The Canvassing Board, which published the election returns, cast out some votes, did not wait for the returns from Dade county, and declared the Republican ticket elected.

Drew (1827-1900), the Democratic candidate for governor, then secured a mandamus from the circuit court restraining the board from going behind the face of the election returns; this was not obeyed and a similar mandamus was therefore obtained from the supreme court of Florida, which declared that the board had no right to determine the legality of a particular vote.

Its area according to official returns is 12,542 sq.

The parliamentary borough (falling within the south-east county division) returns one member.

The trade returns are included in those of German East Africa.

Ruysch (1508) returns to the old idea, and even joins Greenland (Gruenlant) to eastern Asia.

The parliamentary borough, falling within the Osgoldcross division of the county, returns one member (before 1885 the number was two).

The methods of cultivation, however, are still distinctly extensive, and the returns are much less than they would be (and in some other cane countries are) under more intensive and scientific methods of cultivation.

Emiriye is not transmissible by will, but may be transferred by donation, which returns to the donor should he outlive the beneficiary.

Yearly returns, under a penalty of £T5 to £T25, of the results of working have to be rendered to the Mines Administration.

The technical value of caoutchouc chiefly depends on the extent to which it is capable of being stretched without breaking, and the extent to which it at once returns to its original dimensions.

The aggregate returns of all these are estimated at £2,643,000 annually.

The returns for 1920 show that 805 ships left Libau, 751 Riga and 123 Windau.

The census of the 31st of December 1900 was strikingly defective; it was wholly discarded for the city of Rio de Janeiro, and had to be completed by office computations in the returns from several states.

The compilation of the returns was not completed and published until May 1908, according to which the total population was 17,318,556, of which 8,825,636 were males and 8,492,920 females.

The returns also show a total of 3,038,500 domiciles outside the federal capital, which gives an average of 5.472 to the domicile.

These returns will serve to correct the exaggerated estimate of 22,315,000 for 1900 which was published in Brazil and accepted by many foreign publications.

The total number of colonists and immigrants entering Brazil between 1804 and 1902, inclusive, according to official returns, was 2,208,353.

At first the Portuguese outnumbered all other nationalities in the immigration returns, but since the abolition of slavery the Italians have passed all competitors and number more than one-half the total arrivals.