return
IPA: rɪtˈɝn
noun
- The act of returning.
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- An answer.
- 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.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (architecture) 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.
verb
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
- (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (Britain, by extension) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
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Examples of "return" in Sentences
- $return = ($return = = '')? false: ($return. $further_thanks_text); return $return;
- $return [ 'topics'] = sizeof ($topic_ids); if (! sizeof ($topic_ids)) return $return;
- Indeed, she can make us no adequate return, but to allow me to return -- the only _return_
- By default only user-defined functions may be overwritten by Runkit. class FunctionMocker protected $_mockedFuncBehaviourMap = array (); public function mock ($funcName, $return = null) $newFuncCode = 'return "'. $return. '"
- Since this provider * is creating 'ModelFile', it will need this context ** @return array * / public function getContextClasses () {return array ( 'My_ModelFileContext');} / *** This it the method exposed to the Zend_Tool_Framework client.
- OnExecuteLine (self, line): "" "The user pressed Enter. @param line: typed line (s) @return Boolean: True-executed line, False-ask for more lines" "" try: exec (line, globals (), globals ()) except Exception, e: print str (e) + "\n" + traceback. format_exc () return True
- Implementation The methods themselves are now very easy Example: of LineItem gets the unit price of getTotalPrice the product and multiplies it with the quantity / ** Computes the total cost of this line item. @return the total price * / public double getTotalPrice () {return theProduct. getPrice () * quantity;} 65 OO Design - Sudarsun S
- The steamer outwards from Barbadoes could land, and the homeward (p. 123) bound packet take up the Haytian mails at Cape Henry, when the return packet goes by the north side; and the _return_ Haytian mails could be picked up at Jacmel, if the packet, _when a steamer_, calls, as she may do, at that place on her voyage to Jamaica, preparatory to her return by way of St. Jago and Cape Nichola to Fayal or Falmouth.
- Why, I beg to know, cannot Mr. De Berenger go to Lord Yarmouth or any other nobleman or gentleman in the dress in which he waits upon Lord Cochrane? if he was dressed as Lord Cochrane describes, there could be no impropriety; but still more, "_or return to his lodging, where it would excite suspicion_," _coming out_ of his lodging in this dress might to be sure excite suspicion, for persons who saw him might imagine that a gentleman thus dressed was going a little beyond the rules of the King's Bench, but how could his _return_ excite suspicion?
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