To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
To recur; to come again.
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.
To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
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.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A knitting needle.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.