getiri

Part Of Speech: 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.

Definition: The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.

Definition: A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.

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.

Definition: Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.

Definition: A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.

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.

Part Of Speech: 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.

Definition: To turn (something) round.

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.

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.

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.

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.