report
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
tools
transport
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, from Latin reportāre (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + portāre.
Base: porto
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reported
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: report
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: report
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: reported
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: report
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: reportest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: reported
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: reportedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: reports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reporteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: reported
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: report
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: reported
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: report
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: reported
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: report
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: reporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
reflexive
examples: 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
gloss: To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
examples: For insurance reasons, I had to report the theft to the local police station.
gloss: To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you do that again I'll report you to the boss.
gloss: To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Andrew Marr reports now on more in-fighting at Westminster.
Every newspaper reported the war.
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.
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The financial director reports to the CEO.
Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.
Although she was junior to [Barret] Zoph, the report said that she did not report directly to him.
gloss: To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: The committee reported the bill with amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.
gloss: To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
pos: verb
gloss: To refer.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
obsolete
rare
examples: a church with windows only from above[…] that reporteth the voice twelve or thirteen times
gloss: Of a ship, to return to a port.
pos: verb
examples: Our ship leaves port on Monday and will re-port on Friday.
gloss: A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
pos: noun
examples: A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.
Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report, which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.
gloss: Reputation.
pos: noun
examples: I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
Certain it is that if he had been daft before, he now ran wild in his pranks, and an evil report of him was in every mouth.
gloss: The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
pos: noun
examples: While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
[…] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
He knelt upon one knee, cocked the weapon, placed the muzzle against the man's forehead, and turning away his eyes pulled the trigger. There was no report. He had used his last cartridge for the horse.
Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village. For a few minutes, the sharp cracking of guns ahead warned them to haste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot, presently ceasing altogether.
gloss: An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
pos: noun
examples: The revelation that boss of one year Laurent Freixe was conducting an undisclosed affair with a direct report has rocked a 159-year-old conglomerate that pioneered infant formula and milk chocolate before growing to become the world's largest food and beverage company.
Derived words: aforereported
coreport
mass report
misreport
outreport
overreport
reportability
reportable
reportative
report back
reportee
reporter
report for duty
reportorial
report out
rereport
underreport
unreported
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