Comeback vs. Return
Comebacknoun
A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.
Comebacknoun
A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
Comebacknoun
(sports) An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.
Comebacknoun
a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);
Comebacknoun
return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity
Returnverb
(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
Returnverb
(intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
Returnverb
To turn back, retreat.
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To turn (something) round.
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(transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
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(transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
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(transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
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To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
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(tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
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(card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
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(cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
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(transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
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To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
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To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
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To retort; to throw back.
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(transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
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To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
Returnnoun
The act of returning.
Returnnoun
A return ticket.
Returnnoun
An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
Returnnoun
An answer.
Returnnoun
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.
Returnnoun
Gain or loss from an investment.
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: A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
Returnnoun
(computing) A carriage return character.
Returnnoun
(computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
Returnnoun
(computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
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A return valve.
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A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
Returnnoun
(American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
Returnnoun
(cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
Returnnoun
(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.
Returnverb
To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
Returnverb
To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
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To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
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To revert; to pass back into possession.
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To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
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To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
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To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
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To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
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To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
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To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
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To report, or bring back and make known.
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To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
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Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
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To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
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To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
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To bat (the ball) back over the net.
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To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
Returnnoun
The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
Returnnoun
The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
Returnnoun
That which is returned.
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An answer; as, a return to one's question.
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The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; - applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
Returnnoun
The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
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An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
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The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
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document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability;
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a coming to or returning home;
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the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
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getting something back again;
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the act of returning to a prior location;
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the income arising from land or other property;
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happening again (especially at regular intervals);
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a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);
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the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
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a reciprocal group action;
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a tennis stroke that returns the ball to the other player;
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(American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
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the act of someone appearing again;
Returnverb
come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity
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give back;
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go back to a previous state;
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go back to something earlier;
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bring back to the point of departure
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return in kind;
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make a return;
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answer back
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be restored;
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pay back;
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pass down;
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elect again
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be inherited by;
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return to a previous position; in mathematics;
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give or supply;
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submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority;
