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 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.
To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
An interception of communication by authority.
A device used to dispense liquids.
A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
The situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
An Indian malarial fever.
The act of touching a touch screen.
A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
To draw off liquid from a vessel.
To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To put a new sole or heel on.
To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
To furnish with taps.
To exploit.
To cadge, borrow or beg.
To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
To strike lightly.
To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
To cut an internal screw thread.
To make a sharp noise.
To intercept a communication without authority.
To force (an opponent) to submit.