Significat

• Noun

  1. The act of returning.
  2. A return ticket.
  3. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
  4. An answer.
  5. 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.
  6. Gain or loss from an investment.
  7. A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
  8. A carriage return character.
  9. The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
  10. A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
  11. A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
  12. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
  13. The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
  14. A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
  15. 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