report
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɔːt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpoɹt/
ipa: /ɹəˈpoɹt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpoːt/
ipa: /ɹəˈpoːt/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹt/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpoət/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: reports
form: reporting
form: reported
form: reported
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: report
form: report
form: reported
form: report
form: reportest
form: reported
form: reportedst
form: reports
form: reporteth
form: reported
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form: -
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form: reported
Etymology: From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, from Latin reportāre (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + portāre.
Senses: examples: text: Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported[…]that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
ref: 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, pages 47–48:
glosses: To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
glosses: To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
examples: text: thenne they ansuerd by and by that they coude not excuse the quene /[…]/ Allas sayd the quene I made this dyner for a good entente / and neuer for none euyl soo almyghty god me help in my ryght as I was neuer purposed to doo suche euylle dedes / and that I reporte me vnto god
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
glosses: To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.
examples: text: For insurance reasons, I had to report the theft to the local police station.
glosses: To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
examples: text: If you do that again I'll report you to the boss.
glosses: To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
glosses: To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
examples: text: Andrew Marr reports now on more in-fighting at Westminster.
text: Every newspaper reported the war.
text: In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
examples: text: The financial director reports to the CEO.
text: Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.
glosses: To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
examples: text: The committee reported the bill with amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
glosses: To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
examples: text: Baldwine his ſonne, the fourth of that name [Baldwin IV of Jerusalem], ſucceeded his father [Amalric of Jerusalem]: ſo like unto him, that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will ſpare the repeating his description.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Baldwine the Fourth Succeedeth; His Education under William the Reverend Archbishop of Tyre”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 94:
glosses: To refer.
examples: text: a church with windows only from above[…] that reporteth the voice twelve or thirteen times
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
examples: text: Our ship leaves port on Monday and will re-port on Friday.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of a ship, to return to a port.
Derived terms: aforereported
mass report
overreport
report back
reporter
report for duty
report out
underreport
unreported