NOUN
  • Definition - The act of returning.
  • Example - I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
  • Definition - A return ticket.
  • Example - Do you want a one-way or a return?
  • Definition - An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
  • Example - Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.
  • Definition - An answer.
  • Example - a return to one's question
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
  • Definition - Gain or loss from an investment.
  • Example - It yielded a return of 5%.
  • Definition - : A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
  • Example - Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
  • Definition - A carriage return character.
  • Example - Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
  • Definition - The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
  • Example - Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
  • Definition - A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
  • Example - Hand in your return by the end of the tax year.
  • Definition - A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from central plant).
  • Example - The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
  • Definition - A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
  • Example - The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
  • Definition - Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
  • Example - The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
  • Definition - A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
  • Example - The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
VERB
  • Definition - To come or go back (to a place or person).
  • Example - Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.
  • Definition - To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
  • Example - To return to my story [...]
  • Definition - To turn back, retreat.
  • Example - To return to my story [...]
  • Definition - To turn (something) round.
  • Example - To return to my story [...]
  • Definition - To place or put back something where it had been.
  • Example - Please return your hands to your lap.
  • Definition - To give something back to its original holder or owner.
  • Example - You should return the library book within one month.
  • Definition - To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
  • Example - If the goods don't work, you can return them.
  • Definition - To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
  • Example - If the goods don't work, you can return them.
  • Definition - To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
  • Example - The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast.
  • Definition - To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
  • Example - If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.
  • Definition - To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
  • Example - If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.
  • Definition - To say in reply; to respond.
  • Example - to return an answer;  to return thanks;  "Do it yourself!" she returned.
  • Definition - To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
  • Example - to return an answer;  to return thanks;  "Do it yourself!" she returned.
  • Definition - To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
  • Example - This function returns the number of files in the directory.
  • Definition - To retort; to throw back.
  • Example - to return the lie
  • Definition - To report, or bring back and make known.
  • Example - to return the result of an election
  • Definition - (by extension) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
  • Example - to return the result of an election
Words in your word
6 Letter Words
return 6 turner 6
5 Letter Words
rerun 5 truer 5 tuner 5
4 Letter Words
rent 4 ruer 4 rune 4 runt 4 tern 4 true 4 tune 4 turn 4 turr 4
3 Letter Words
ern 3 err 3 net 3 nut 3 ret 3 rue 3 run 3 rut 3 ten 3 tun 3 urn 3 ute 3
2 Letter Words
en 2 er 2 et 2 ne 2 nu 2 re 2 te 2 un 2 ut 2
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