Definition of return

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Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse..

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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..
Respective :: Respective (a.) Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own; as, they returned to their respective places of abode..
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral..
Proleptical :: Proleptical (a.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
Reviction :: Reviction (n.) Return to life.
Annual :: Annual (n.) A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
Predict :: Predict (v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation..
Postliminy :: Postliminy (n.) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy..
Retaliate :: Retaliate (v. i.) To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy..
Return :: Return (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..
Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
Return :: Return (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below..
Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky..
Return :: Return (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers..
Render :: Render (n.) A return; a payment of rent.
Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food..
Septennial :: Septennial (a.) Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England..
Regression :: Regression (n.) The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.
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