Definition of returning

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Returning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retur.

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Annual :: Annual (n.) A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
Routine :: Routine (n.) A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning..
Gerlind :: Gerlind (n.) A salmon returning from the sea the second time.
Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Return :: Return (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..
Homing :: Homing (a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.
Anniversary :: Anniversary (a.) Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast..
Resonant :: Resonant (a.) Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back..
Negative :: Negative (a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body..
Regular :: Regular (a.) Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits..
Reciprocation :: Reciprocation (n.) The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses..
Loop :: Loop (n.) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.
Frequency :: Frequency (n.) The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles..
Septennial :: Septennial (a.) Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England..
Reascent :: Reascent (n.) A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity.
Revenge :: Revenge (n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
Reflux :: Reflux (a.) Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action..
Regression :: Regression (n.) The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.
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..
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