return

1. v. i. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. Source: opted

2. v. i. To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. Source: opted

3. v. i. To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. Source: opted

4. v. i. To revert; to pass back into possession. Source: opted

5. v. i. To go back in thought, narration, or argument. Source: opted

6. v. t. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. Source: opted

7. v. t. To repay; as, to return borrowed money. Source: opted

8. v. t. To give in requital or recompense; to requite. Source: opted

9. v. t. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks. Source: opted

10. v. t. To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. Source: opted

11. v. t. To report, or bring back and make known. Source: opted

12. v. t. 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. Source: opted

13. v. t. Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. Source: opted

14. v. t. 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. Source: opted

15. v. t. To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. Source: opted

16. v. t. To bat (the ball) back over the net. Source: opted

17. v. t. To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. Source: opted

18. n. 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. Source: opted

19. n. 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. Source: opted

20. n. That which is returned. Source: opted

21. n. A payment; a remittance; a requital. Source: opted

22. n. An answer; as, a return to one's question. Source: opted

23. n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information. Source: opted

24. n. The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. Source: opted

25. 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; -- 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. Source: opted

26. n. The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. Source: opted

27. n. The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. Source: opted

28. n. The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. Source: opted

29. n. A day in bank. See Return day, below. Source: opted

30. n. 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. Source: opted

31. n. The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. Source: opted

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