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noun
- an environment offering affection and security
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- a social unit living together
- an institution where people are cared for
- housing that someone is living in
- the country or state or city where you live
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- where you live at a particular time
- place where something began and flourished
- (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
adv
- at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
- to the fullest extent; to the heart
- on or to the point aimed at
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- (Internet) To the home page.
- To one's place of birth.
- (UK, soccer) into the goal
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
noun
- a coming to or returning home
- The act or event of returning home.
- an annual school or university reunion for graduates
- (Canada, US, also attributive) In high schools and colleges, a tradition centered around a football game, a parade and the coronation of a Homecoming Queen.
- Ellipsis of harvest homecoming, a traditional (street) party and/or dance near the start of the school year, at around fall mid-terms. It traditionally marks the start of harvest break, where students go home in autumn to harvest the crops on the family farms.
noun
- a coming to or returning home
- The act of returning.
- the act of going back to a prior location
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- a reciprocal group action
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- 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.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- 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.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (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.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
verb
- bring back to the point of departure
- go back to a previous state
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- give or supply
- pass down
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (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) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
verb
- To return to one's house, or to any place of origin.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To drag or slip through the ground.
- (sports, of a sport) To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.
- To touch a person's interests or feelings closely; to be fully understood or realised.
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
verb
- move back
- move away, as for privacy
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
- (intransitive) To withdraw from a position, go back.
- (intransitive) To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures. (of a glacier)
- (intransitive) To slope back.
- (intransitive) To withdraw military forces.
- Alternative form of re-treat.
noun
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- an area where you can be alone
- (military) Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
- (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude, especially for meditation, prayer, or study.
- (military) A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- (military) A signal for a military withdrawal.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- (military) A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
verb
- move back
- go back over
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
adj
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
adv
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb
- come back to
- exist or be situated within
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- originate (in)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
- (intransitive) To linger (on); to remain fixated. [with on ‘a particular thought, idea, etc.’]
- (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
- (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
noun
- (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
- (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
verb
noun
- a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
- a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
- a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
- (Scotland) A grain sieve.
- (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
- Ellipsis of harp seal.
- Any instrument of the same musicological type.
- A harmonica.
- A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
- The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
noun
- returning to a former state
- the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
verb
- go back to a previous state
- go back to a statistical means
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- go back to bad behavior
- (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
- (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
- (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
noun
- returning to a former state
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
- An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
- An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
- (exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
- (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
noun
- returning to a former state
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- turning in the opposite direction
- (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or their heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
- a failure to maintain a higher state
- The fact of being turned the reverse way.
- The action of reverting something.
- (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
- The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
- The action of turning something the reverse way.
- (genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
- (Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
- The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
- (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
- A sum payable on a person's death.
- (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
adv
- Back (to a former place or state).
- Here too, here also, in this case as well; used in applying a previously made point to a new instance; sometimes preceded by "here".
- I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement.
- Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.
- Moreover; besides; further.
- Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember.
- Over and above a factor of one.
- Another time: indicating a repeat of an action.
- anew
prep
verb
- (intransitive) Return to where one came from.
- (transitive, US, Canada, colloquial) To repay; to return the favor.
- (intransitive, with with or to) Reply (to someone); follow up (with someone).
- (transitive) To retrieve (something); to have (something) returned.
- (transitive, often with at or against) To do something to hurt or harm (someone) who has hurt or harmed one; to take revenge.
- recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
- take revenge or even out a score
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
verb
- bring back to the point of departure
- cause someone to remember the past
- take back what one has said
- move text to the previous line; in printing
- resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
- regain possession of something
- Culturally so.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to remember some past event or time.
- (transitive) To resume a relationship with (someone).
- Physically so.
- (transitive) To return (something) to a vendor for a refund.
- (transitive) To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).
verb
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To retract or take back.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- (geology, of a shoreline) To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To take a step backwards
noun
- (geology) An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- (figurative) A regression.
- (fluid mechanics) Flow over a backward-facing step.
- A step backwards
verb
noun
verb
- admit back into the country
- send someone back to their homeland against their will, as of refugees
- (transitive) To convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.
- (transitive) To restore (a person) to their own country.
- (transitive) To return or restore (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To return to a place.
- (intransitive) To return to a relationship with a former romantic partner.
- (intransitive) To retort.
- (intransitive) To return to a former state, usually a desirable one; to become fashionable once more.
- (intransitive) To return to one's possession, especially of memories.
- answer back
- be restored
- go back to something earlier
- even the score, in sports
noun
- The place that is one's home.
- (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
- A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
- (Canada, US) A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States.
- dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
- the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
- land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
verb
noun
verb
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
verb
- go back to a previous state
- To return to a previous state of being.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- turn inside out or upside down
- retrace one's course
- (transitive) To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
- (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
- (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
- (transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
- (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
- (intransitive) To arise from or out of something.
- (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
- (intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
- (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
- (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo.
- (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
- return or recoil
- contribute
- have an effect for good or ill
noun
- (figurative) The portion of a journey that ends at home.
- (baseball) A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
- (slang, figurative, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A success, especially a popular success.
- (pesäpallo) A three-base hit, a legal hit where the batter gets to third base without stopping and without the opposing team attempting to put the batter out on earlier bases, scoring one run immediately.
- (electrical engineering) A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.
- a base hit on which the batter scores a run
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
adv
noun
- (historical) A sofa, open carriage, etc. constructed so that the occupants sit back to back.
- A move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
adj
noun
noun
- a coming to or returning home
- The act or event of returning home.
- an annual school or university reunion for graduates
- (Canada, US, also attributive) In high schools and colleges, a tradition centered around a football game, a parade and the coronation of a Homecoming Queen.
- Ellipsis of harvest homecoming, a traditional (street) party and/or dance near the start of the school year, at around fall mid-terms. It traditionally marks the start of harvest break, where students go home in autumn to harvest the crops on the family farms.
noun
- a coming to or returning home
- The act of returning.
- the act of going back to a prior location
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- a reciprocal group action
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- 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.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- 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.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (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.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
verb
- bring back to the point of departure
- go back to a previous state
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- give or supply
- pass down
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (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) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
noun
- returning to a former state
- the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
verb
- go back to a previous state
- go back to a statistical means
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- go back to bad behavior
- (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
- (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
- (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
noun
- returning to a former state
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
- An action of travelling mentally back in time.
- (psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
- (statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).
- An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.
- (medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
- (exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- (programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.
- (statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.
noun
- returning to a former state
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- turning in the opposite direction
- (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or their heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
- a failure to maintain a higher state
- The fact of being turned the reverse way.
- The action of reverting something.
- (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
- The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
- The action of turning something the reverse way.
- (genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
- (Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
- The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
- (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
- A sum payable on a person's death.
- (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
noun
- The place that is one's home.
- (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
- A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
- (Canada, US) A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States.
- dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
- the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
- land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
verb
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
- (intransitive) To arise from or out of something.
- (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
- (intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
- (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
- (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo.
- (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
- return or recoil
- contribute
- have an effect for good or ill
noun
- (figurative) The portion of a journey that ends at home.
- (baseball) A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
- (slang, figurative, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A success, especially a popular success.
- (pesäpallo) A three-base hit, a legal hit where the batter gets to third base without stopping and without the opposing team attempting to put the batter out on earlier bases, scoring one run immediately.
- (electrical engineering) A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.
- a base hit on which the batter scores a run
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
verb
verb
adj
noun
- an environment offering affection and security
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- a social unit living together
- an institution where people are cared for
- housing that someone is living in
- the country or state or city where you live
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- where you live at a particular time
- place where something began and flourished
- (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
adv
- at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
- to the fullest extent; to the heart
- on or to the point aimed at
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- (Internet) To the home page.
- To one's place of birth.
- (UK, soccer) into the goal
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
verb
- To return to one's house, or to any place of origin.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To drag or slip through the ground.
- (sports, of a sport) To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.
- To touch a person's interests or feelings closely; to be fully understood or realised.
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
verb
- move back
- move away, as for privacy
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
- (intransitive) To withdraw from a position, go back.
- (intransitive) To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures. (of a glacier)
- (intransitive) To slope back.
- (intransitive) To withdraw military forces.
- Alternative form of re-treat.
noun
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- an area where you can be alone
- (military) Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
- (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude, especially for meditation, prayer, or study.
- (military) A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- (military) A signal for a military withdrawal.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- (military) A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
verb
- move back
- go back over
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
adj
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
adv
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb
- come back to
- exist or be situated within
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- originate (in)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
- (intransitive) To linger (on); to remain fixated. [with on ‘a particular thought, idea, etc.’]
- (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
- (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
noun
- (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
- (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
verb
noun
- a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
- a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
- a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
- (Scotland) A grain sieve.
- (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
- Ellipsis of harp seal.
- Any instrument of the same musicological type.
- A harmonica.
- A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
- The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
verb
- (intransitive) Return to where one came from.
- (transitive, US, Canada, colloquial) To repay; to return the favor.
- (intransitive, with with or to) Reply (to someone); follow up (with someone).
- (transitive) To retrieve (something); to have (something) returned.
- (transitive, often with at or against) To do something to hurt or harm (someone) who has hurt or harmed one; to take revenge.
- recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
- take revenge or even out a score
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
noun
- a coming to or returning home
- The act of returning.
- the act of going back to a prior location
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- a reciprocal group action
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- 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.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- 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.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (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.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
verb
- bring back to the point of departure
- go back to a previous state
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- give or supply
- pass down
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (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) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
verb
- bring back to the point of departure
- cause someone to remember the past
- take back what one has said
- move text to the previous line; in printing
- resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
- regain possession of something
- Culturally so.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to remember some past event or time.
- (transitive) To resume a relationship with (someone).
- Physically so.
- (transitive) To return (something) to a vendor for a refund.
- (transitive) To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).
verb
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To retract or take back.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- (geology, of a shoreline) To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To take a step backwards
noun
- (geology) An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- (figurative) A regression.
- (fluid mechanics) Flow over a backward-facing step.
- A step backwards
verb
noun
verb
- admit back into the country
- send someone back to their homeland against their will, as of refugees
- (transitive) To convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.
- (transitive) To restore (a person) to their own country.
- (transitive) To return or restore (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To return to a place.
- (intransitive) To return to a relationship with a former romantic partner.
- (intransitive) To retort.
- (intransitive) To return to a former state, usually a desirable one; to become fashionable once more.
- (intransitive) To return to one's possession, especially of memories.
- answer back
- be restored
- go back to something earlier
- even the score, in sports
noun
- returning to a former state
- the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
verb
- go back to a previous state
- go back to a statistical means
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- go back to bad behavior
- (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
- (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
- (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
verb
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
verb
- go back to a previous state
- To return to a previous state of being.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- turn inside out or upside down
- retrace one's course
- (transitive) To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
- (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
- (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
- (transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
- (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
adv
- Back (to a former place or state).
- Here too, here also, in this case as well; used in applying a previously made point to a new instance; sometimes preceded by "here".
- I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement.
- Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.
- Moreover; besides; further.
- Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember.
- Over and above a factor of one.
- Another time: indicating a repeat of an action.
- anew
prep
adv
noun
- (historical) A sofa, open carriage, etc. constructed so that the occupants sit back to back.
- A move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.