Return
Definition of Return
Re`turn´ | v. i. | 1. | To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. | | 2. | To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. | | 3. | To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. | | 4. | To revert; to pass back into possession. | | 5. | To go back in thought, narration, or argument. | | v. t. | 1. | To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. | | 2. | To repay; as, to return borrowed money. | | 3. | To give in requital or recompense; to requite. | | 4. | To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks. | | 5. | To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. | | 6. | To report, or bring back and make known. | | 7. | To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election. | | 8. | Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. | | 9. | To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ. | | 10. | To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. | | 11. | (Tennis) To bat (the ball) back over the net. | | 12. | (Card Playing) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. | | n. | 1. | The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary. | | 2. | The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis. | | 3. | That which is returned. | | 4. | An answer; as, a return to one's question. | | 4. | (Arch.) 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; - applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south. | | 5. | (Law) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. | | 6. | (Mil. & Naval) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc. | | 7. | (Fort. & Mining) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. |
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