Definition of return

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Return (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.

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Return :: Return (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known..
Report :: Report (v. t.) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry..
Reviction :: Reviction (n.) Return to life.
Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song..
Reascent :: Reascent (n.) A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity.
Change :: Change (v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due..
Answer :: Answer (n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action..
Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved..
Sidereal :: Sidereal (a.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day..
Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc..
Light :: Light (superl.) Not heavily burdened; not deeply laden; not sufficiently ballasted; as, the ship returned light..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
Home-coming :: Home-coming (n.) Return home.
Quittance :: Quittance (v. t.) Recompense; return; repayment.
Answer :: Answer (v. i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response..
Resonance :: Resonance (n.) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments..
Anniversary :: Anniversary (a.) Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast..
Inboard :: Inboard (a. & adv.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke..
Counterstroke :: Counterstroke (n.) A stroke or blow in return.
Sublimate :: Sublimate (v. t.) To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor..
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