cut out vs return

cut out

verb
  • To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected. 

  • To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore. 

  • To intercept. 

  • To arrange or prepare. 

  • To remove, omit. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever. 

  • To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something). 

  • To oust, to replace. 

  • To separate from a herd. 

  • To leave suddenly. 

adj
  • Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose. 

return

verb
  • To relinquish control to the calling procedure. 

  • To elect according to the official report of the election officers. 

  • To recur; to come again. 

  • To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field. 

  • To come or go back (to a place or person). 

  • To give in requital or recompense; to requite. 

  • To give something back to its original holder or owner. 

  • To report, or bring back and make known. 

  • To go back in thought, narration, or argument. 

  • To place or put back something where it had been. 

  • 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 pass (data) back to the calling procedure. 

  • To say in reply; to respond. 

  • To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund. 

noun
  • The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure. 

  • An answer. 

  • A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure. 

  • A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant). 

  • The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team. 

  • A return ticket. 

  • An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket. 

  • A carriage return character. 

  • The act of returning. 

  • A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower. 

How often have the words cut out and return occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )