To turn back.To fold back; turn or roll over, as a thing upon itself.To reverse the position or direction of; turn backward.To cast back; reflect; reëcho.To turn over; revolve.To send back; cause to go back to a former place.To take with one when going back; bring or carry back.To give back; restore.To give in repayment, requital, or recompense; make a return of: as, to return good for evil.To make a return for; repay; requite: as, to return kindness by ingratitude; to return a loan; to return a call.To give back in response; reply.To retort.To bring back and make known; report, tell, or communicate.To report officially; render as an official statement or account: as, to return a list of killed and wounded after a battle.In law, to bring or send back, as a process or other mandate, to the tribunal whence it issued, with a short statement (usually indorsed on the process) by the officer to whom it issued, and who returns it, stating what he has done under it, or why he has done nothing: as, to return an execution non est inventus; to return a commission with the depositions taken under it.To send; transmit; convey; remit.To elect as a member of Congress or of Parliament.To yield; give a return or profit of.In card-playing, to lead back, as a suit previously led; respond to by a similar lead: as, to return a lead or a suit.Synonyms Return, Restore (see restore), render.To turn back.To come back; come or go back to a former place or position: as, to return home.To go or come back to a former state; pass back; in general, to come by any process of retrogression.To come again; come a second time or repeatedly; repeat a visit.To appear or begin again after a periodical revolution.To revert; come back to the original possessor; hence, to fall to the share of a person; become the possession of either a previous or a new owner.To go back in thought or speech; come back to a previous subject of consideration; recur.To reappear; come back before the mind.To make reply; retort.To yield a return; give a value or profit.In fencing, to give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.n. The act of sending, bringing, rendering, or restoring to a former place, position, owner, or state; the act of giving back in requital, recompense, retort, or response; election, as of a member of Congress or of Parliament; also, the state of being returned. See return, transitive verbn. The act of going or coming back; resumption of a former place, position, state, condition, or subject of consideration; recurrence, reappearance, or reversion. See return, intransitive verbn. That which is returned.n. Profit, as arising from labor, effort, exertion, or use; advantage; a profitable result.n. A response; a reply; an answer.n. A report; a formal or official account of an action performed or a duty discharged, or of facts, statistics, and the like; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information: as, agricultural returns; census returns; election returns. The return of members of Parliament is, strictly speaking, the return by the sheriff or other returning officer of the writ addressed to him, certifying the election in pursuance of it.n. In fencing, a thrust or cut given in answer to a sword-thrust: a more general term for riposte, which has a specific meaning, signifying the easiest and quickest return stroke available under given circumstances.n. In law: The bringing or sending back of a process or other mandate to the tribunal whence it issued, with a short statement (usually indorsed on the process) by the officer to whom it issued, and who returns it, stating what he has done under it, or why he has done nothing. The return is now usually made by filing the process, with indorsed certificate, in the clerk's office.n. The official certificate so indorsed.n. The day on which the terms of a process or other mandate require it to be returned. See return-day.n. plural A light-colored mild-flavored kind of tobacco.n. In architecture, the continuation of a molding, projection, etc., in an opposite or different direction; also, a side or part which falls away from the front of any straight work. As a feature of a molding, it is usual at the termination of the dripstone or hood of a window or door.n. The air which ascends after having passed through the working in a coal-mine.n. In milit. engin., a short branch gallery for the reception of empty trucks. It enables loaded trucks to pass.n. In music, same as reprisen. To turn again: as, to turn and return. Also written distinctively re-turn.n. In electricity, a wire or conductor which completes an electric circuit so that the current may be returned to the generator.n. A return-bend; a pipe-fitting for connecting two parallel pipes; a 180° elbow.