Return (v. i.) To turn back |
Return (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular |
Return (v. i.) To speak in answer |
Return (v. i.) To revert |
Return (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument. |
Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back |
Return (v. t.) To repay |
Return (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense |
Return (v. t.) To give back in reply |
Return (v. t.) To retort |
Return (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known. |
Return (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior |
Return (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. |
Return (v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done |
Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. |
Return (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net. |
Return (v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner |
Return (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition |
Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition |
Return (n.) That which is returned. |
Return (n.) A payment |
Return (n.) An answer |
Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like |
Return (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. |
Return (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold |
Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. |
Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. |
Return (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. |
Return (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below. |
Return (n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer |
Return (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. |
Visit (v. t.) To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc. |
Visit (v. t.) To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc. |
Visit (v. t.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting |
Visit (v. i.) To make a visit or visits |
Visit (v. t.) The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing |
Visit (v. t.) The act of going to view or inspect |
reappearance return | the act of someone appearing again, his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited |
return homecoming | a coming to or returning home, on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party |
restitution return restoration regaining | getting something back again, upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing |
return | the act of going back to a prior location, they set out on their return to the base camp |
return | (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble |
return | a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player, he won the point on a crossourt return |
site visit | a visit in an official capacity to examine a site to determine its suitability for some enterprise |
sojourn visit | a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) |
visit | the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity, a visit to the dentist |
visit | the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection) |
flying visit | a visit that last for only a very short time, he wanted to hear all about my flying visit to his old stamping grounds |
visit | the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time, he dropped by for a visit |
return paying back getting even | a reciprocal group action, in return we gave them as good as we got |
return key return | the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed |
Rubicon point of no return | a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment |
round-trip ticket return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
day return | a return ticket (at reduced fare) for traveling both ways in the same day |
tax return income tax return return | document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability, his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return |
amended return | a tax return that corrects the information in an earlier return |
declaration of estimated tax estimated tax return | return required of a taxpayer whose tax withheld from income does not meet the tax liability for the year |
false return | an incorrect income tax return |
information return | a return that provides information to the tax collector but does not compute the tax liability |
joint return | a return filed by a husband and wife |
return address | the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered |
rejoinder retort return riposte replication comeback counter | a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one), it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher |
recurrence return | happening again (especially at regular intervals), the return of spring |
return coming back | the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction |
visit | a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice, he scheduled a visit to the dentist |
return issue take takings proceeds yield payoff | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property, the average return was about % |
carriage return | the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line |
exponential decay exponential return | a decrease that follows an exponential function |
rate of return | the amount returned per unit of time expressed as a percentage of the cost |
return on invested capital return on investment ROI | (corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid |
visit | assail, He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly |
revert return retrovert regress turn back | go back to a previous state, We reverted to the old rules |
come back return | be restored, Her old vigor returned |
inflict bring down visit impose | impose something unpleasant, The principal visited his rage on the students |
retort come back repay return riposte rejoin | answer back |
return | submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority, submit a bill to a legislative body |
hark back return come back recall | go back to something earlier, This harks back to a previous remark of his |
e chew the fat shoot the breeze chat confabulate confab chitchat chit-chat chatter chaffer natter gossip jaw claver visit eb | talk socially without exchanging too much information, the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze |
render deliver return | pass down, render a verdict, deliver a judgment |
return | make a return, return a kickback |
render yield return give generate | give or supply, The cow brings in liters of milk, This year's crop yielded ,bushels of corn, The estate renders some revenue for the family |
travel to visit | go to certain places as for sightseeing, Did you ever visit Paris? |
visit inspect | come to see in an official or professional capacity, The governor visited the prison, The grant administrator visited the laboratory |
return | go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before, return to your native land, the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean |
return | return to a previous position, in mathematics, The point returned to the interior of the figure |
return take back bring back | bring back to the point of departure |
fall d return d pass d devolve d | be inherited by, The estate fell to my sister, The land returned to the family, The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead |