return
part of speech
verb (return, returns, returned, returning); noun (a return, returns); adjective (return — as in a return ticket)
meaning for a pupil
1) To return is to come back or go back to a place. tree →
2) To return something is to give it back or bring it back. tree →
3) A return is the going back, or the coming back: on her return. tree →
4) A return (ticket, trip) is there and back. tree →
5) Return is also the key on a keyboard for a new line, and money earned back. tree →
6) To return can also mean to answer someone in speech. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it often means to go back to a place, and also to turn back to God. The Hebrew word for repentance, teshuvah, comes from this same idea of turning back. Interpretation: Tradition says that to return to God is to repent, and the festival of Yom Kippur is about this kind of returning. In the primary lessons: In maths: coming back on a trip (the way back adds distance) or giving back books, money or things; a return trip doubles a distance (there and back). In everyday life: returning library books, returning a faulty toy to the shop, «many happy returns». In science: a boomerang returns; birds return in spring. In stories: «the hero's return».
examples
- And Laban departed, and returned unto his place. (Torah GEN.31.55, JPS 1917) tree →
- Go say to them: Return ye to your tents. (Torah DEU.5.30, JPS 1917) tree →
- So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. (Torah GEN.33.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he returned, and came to Achish. (Prophets 1SA.27.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then David returned to bless his household. (Prophets 2SA.6.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Mordecai returned to the king's gate. (Writings EST.6.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- He drove 30 miles to the lake and returned home. tree →
- She returned 4 library books. tree →
- The shop returned $5 to him. tree →
- The return trip took 2 hours. tree →
- Please return your books by Friday. tree →
- The swallows return every spring. tree →
- A boomerang returns to the thrower. tree →
- She bought a return ticket to the city. tree →
- Press return to start a new line. tree →
- "No, sir, by design," returned Aladdin. tree →
note
A return trip often doubles a distance (there and back); things returned to someone are added to them and taken from the giver. Trap: forgetting the way back in a round trip. «Return back» is extra: «return» already means go back. UK «return ticket» = US «round-trip ticket».
In the corpora
- And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
- And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.
- And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'
- At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.'
- And the LORD went His way, as soon as He had left off speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned unto his place.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «return» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.