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. |
Switch (n.) A small, flexible twig or rod. |
Switch (n.) A movable part of a rail |
Switch (n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women. |
Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit. |
Switch (v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod |
Switch (v. t.) To swing or whisk |
Switch (v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge. |
Switch (v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another |
Switch (v. t.) To shift to another circuit. |
Switch (v. i.) To walk with a jerk. |
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 |
bait and switch | a deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product |
switch switching shift | the act of changing one thing or position for another, his switch on abortion cost him the election |
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 |
switch | a basketball maneuver, two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other |
return | a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player, he won the point on a crossourt return |
return paying back getting even | a reciprocal group action, in return we gave them as good as we got |
DIP switch dual inline package switch | (computer science) one of a set of small on-off switches mounted in computer hardware, used in place of jumpers to configure the machine for a user |
ignition switch | switch that operates a solenoid that closes a circuit to operate the starter |
return key return | the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed |
selector selector switch | a switch that is used to select among alternatives |
switch | a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment |
switch electric switch electrical switch | control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit |
switch | railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections, used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock |
switch | hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair, used by women to give shape to a coiffure |
switch engine donkey engine | a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a railroad yard |
three-way switch three-point switch | an electric switch that has three terminals, used to control a circuit from two different locations |
time-switch | a switch set to operate at a desired time |
toggle switch toggle on-off switch on off switch | a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions |
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 |
substitution permutation transposition replacement switch | an event in which one thing is substituted for another, the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood |
return coming back | the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction |
switch-hitter | a baseball player who can bat either right or left handed |
switch-hitter | slang term for a bisexual person |
switch grass Panicum virgatum | grass of western America used for hay |
small cane switch cane Arundinaria tecta | small cane of watery or moist areas in southern United States |
dog laurel dog hobble switch-ivy Leucothoe fontanesiana Leucothoe editorum | fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers |
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 |
interchange tack switch alternate flip flip-flop | reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) |
switch over switch exchange | change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence |
switch change over shift | make a shift in or exchange of, First Joe led, then we switched |
revert return retrovert regress turn back | go back to a previous state, We reverted to the old rules |