Return
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of returning. A return ticket. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect. Gain or loss from an investment. A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return. A carriage return character. The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure. A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower. Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team. A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To come or go back (to a place or person). To go back in thought, narration, or argument. To turn back, retreat. To turn (something) round. To give something back to its original holder or owner. To take something back to a retailer for a refund. To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve. To play a card as a result of another player's lead. To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field. To relinquish control to the calling procedure. To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
Example sentence: Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Revert
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate; to get back..To change back.To return; to come back.To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: One who, or that which, reverts.A convert to Islam.
Example sentence: I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.