return
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English returnen, retornen, from Anglo-Norman returner, from Old French retourner, retorner, from Medieval Latin retornare (“to turn back”), from re- + tornare (“to turn”). By surface analysis, re- + turn. Compare beturn.
Inflected forms:
form: returns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: returning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: returned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: returned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: return
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: return
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: returned
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: return
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: returnest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: returned
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: returnedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: returns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: returneth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: returned
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: return
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: returned
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: return
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: returned
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: return
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: returning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: returned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: returne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: returns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: returne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To come or go back (to a place or person).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
“I came through and I shall return,” General MacArthur declared when he spoke at Terowie of the beleagured Philippines.
As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
gloss: To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To return to my story[…]
gloss: To recur; to come again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Winter returns every year.
gloss: To turn back, retreat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: ‘I suppose here is none woll be glad to returne – and as for me,’ seyde Sir Cador, ‘I had lever dye this day that onys to turne my bak.’
gloss: To turn (something) round.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Whan Kyng Marke harde hym sey that worde, he returned his horse and abode by hym.
gloss: To place or put back something where it had been.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please return your hands to your lap.
gloss: To give something back to its original holder or owner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You should return the library book within one month.
gloss: To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
pos: verb
examples: […]the Lord ſhall returne thy wickedneſſe vpon thine owne head.
gloss: To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hello, I’m just returning your call. What did you want to talk about?
gloss: To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Yeah, it’s $600,000 but, if it doesn’t work, you can always return it. As long as it’s undamaged and in the original packaging, I’ll give you a full refund.
gloss: To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
pos: verb
examples: The player couldn’t return the serve because it was so fast.
gloss: To play a card as a result of another player’s lead.
pos: verb
examples: If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.
gloss: To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
pos: verb
gloss: To say in reply; to respond.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to return an answer;  to return thanks;  “Do it yourself!” she returned.
“No!” returned the spy. “I throw up. I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death […]
“Ah my good friend, I do look out,” the young man returned while Maisie helped herself afresh to bread and butter.
gloss: To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This function returns the number of files in the directory.
gloss: To retort; to throw back.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: to return the lie
And novv, if you are a Malitious Reader, I expect you ſhould return upon me, that I affect to be thought more Impartial than I am.
gloss: To report, or bring back and make known.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to return the result of an election
And all the people anſwered together, [...] and Moſes returned the wordes of the people vnto the Lord.
gloss: To elect to a certain office.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
broadly
dated
examples: he was returned as a Member of Parliament
gloss: To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
pos: verb
gloss: The act of returning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railroad station.
[…] of the existence or nonexistence of parental intent to abandon a subject minor child, whether the best interests and welfare of such minor child will be served by taking custody from the parents, and whether return of a child to the parents would be detrimental to such child.
gloss: A return ticket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Do you want a one-way or a return?
gloss: An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Most product returns to the top retailers in the USA (either direct from the consumer or through non-sales) will be taken back by the original suppliers for rework or disposal.
gloss: An answer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a return to one’s question
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
The other returns having come in, the result of the poll, that Sir James Graham had been superseded by Major Aglionby, was declared at Carlisle soon after 11 a.m.
gloss: Gain or loss from an investment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It yielded a return of 5%.
from the few hours we spend in prayer and the exercises of a pious life, the return is great and profitable
Liverpool have now won only five of their 17 home league games this season. It is a poor return for a team of Liverpool’s pedigree and resources but, once again, Kenny Dalglish’s team were the instigators of their own downfall as chance after chance went begging.
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
gloss: A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hand in your return within 90 days of the end of the tax year.
gloss: A carriage return character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
gloss: A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
Synonyms: revend
give back
reinstate
render
restore
return
revest
surrender
Antonyms: take
Related words: compensate
indemnify
reimburse
Derived words: misreturn
nonreturn
rereturn
retpoline
returnability
return back
returnee
return evil for evil
return fire
returning officer
returnment
returnship
return the favor
return to dust
return to form
return to one’s muttons
return to one’s senses
unreturning
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: връщам
roman: vrǎštam
lang: Bulgarian
word: върна
roman: vǎrna
lang: Dutch
word: retourneren
lang: Finnish
word: palauttaa
lang: Italian
word: restituire
lang: Japanese
word: 返す
roman: kaesu
lang: Polish
word: zwracać
lang: Polish
word: zwrócić
lang: Portuguese
word: retornar
lang: Swedish
word: returnera
lang: Bulgarian
word: връщане
roman: vrǎštane
lang: German
word: Rückgabe
lang: Hungarian
word: visszavétel
lang: Hungarian
word: visszavitel
lang: Hungarian
word: visszaadás
lang: Hungarian
word: visszaváltás
lang: Hungarian
word: visszaszolgáltatás
lang: Hungarian
word: visszaküldés
lang: Indonesian
word: retur
lang: Spanish
word: retrovendición
lang: Spanish
word: retroventa
lang: Spanish
word: devolución
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اعاده
roman: iʼade
lang: Ukrainian
word: пове́рнення
roman: povérnennja