Return vs Counter - What's the difference?
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To come or go back (to a place or person).
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, chapter=19 To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
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(obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
*, Bk.V:
*:‘I suppose here is none woll be glad to returne – and as for me,’ seyde Sir Cador, ‘I had lever dye this day that onys to turne my bak.’
(obsolete) To turn (something) round.
*, Bk.X, Ch.xiij:
*:Whan Kyng Marke harde hym sey that worde, he returned his horse and abode by hym.
To put (place) something back where it had been.
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To give something back to its original holder or owner.
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To take something back to a retailer for a refund.
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To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
*Bible, 1 Kings ii.44
*:The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.
(tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
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(card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
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(cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
To say in reply; to respond.
:to return''' an answer; to '''return thanks
*1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew)
*:‘Ah my good friend, I do look out!’ the young man returned while Maisie helped herself afresh to bread and butter.
(computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
(computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
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(dated) To retort; to throw back.
:to return the lie
*Dryden
*:If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.
To report, or bring back and make known.
:to return the result of an election
*Bible, Exodus xix.8
*:And all the people answered together,and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.
(by extension, UK) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
The act of returning.
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
A return ticket.
An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
An answer.
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.
Gain or loss from an investment.
* Jeremy Taylor
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, title= (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
(computing) A carriage return character.
(computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
(computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
(American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
(cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
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.
An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
* He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
* He put his money on the counter , and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
* He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter - he can count to 100.
A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
(grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place.
(wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
* Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent.
(computing, programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
(computing, Internet) A hit counter.
Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
* Running counter to all the rules of virtue. -Locks .
(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
(by extension) The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
* 1959 , , Seymour: An Introduction :
To contradict, oppose.
(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
* His left hand countered provokingly. - C. Kingsley
To take action in response to; to respond.
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Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
* I. Taylor
In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
* John Locke
In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
* Shakespeare
At or against the front or face.
* Sandys
(obsolete) An encounter.
* Spenser
(nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
(music) Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
The back leather or heel part of a boot.
As verbs the difference between return and counter
is that return is to come or go back (to a place or person) while counter is to contradict, oppose.As nouns the difference between return and counter
is that return is the act of returning while counter is an object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc or counter can be (nautical) the overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline or counter can be (obsolete) an encounter.As an adverb counter is
contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction or counter can be in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.As an adjective counter is
contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.return
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "return") * return to formNoun
(en noun)- a return to one's question
- election returns'''; a '''return of the amount of goods produced or sold
- The fruit from many days of recreation is very little; but from these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great.
Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=Liverpool have now won only five of their 17 home league games this season. It is a poor return for a team of Liverpool's pedigree and resources but, once again, Kenny Dalglish's team were the instigators of their own downfall as chance after chance went begging.}}
The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return' of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of ' return .}}
- A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "return") * abnormal return * absolute return * active return * amended return * annual return * carriage return * day return * dollar return * exante return * excess return * expected return * exponential return * false return * hard return * in return * information return * joint return * many happy returns * market return * mean return * non-return * point of no return * rate of return * real return * relative return * return address * return crease * return day * return extrasystole * return flow * return key * return of capital * return on assests * return on capital emlpoyed * return on equity * return on invested capital * return on investment * return on net assets * return on sales * return stroke * return ticket * return to form * Return To Zero * return address * risk-adjsuted return * risk-free return * risk-return tradeoff * safety-net return/safety net return * soft return * subperiod return * tax return * total return * venous returnStatistics
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (French (m)), from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bean counter * counter batten * countertop * hit counter * over the counter * program counter * rivet counterEtymology 2
From (etyl) contre, (etyl) cuntre, both from (etyl) contra.Adverb
(-)Noun
(en noun)- Seymour, sitting in an old corduroy armchair across the room, a cigarette going, wearing a blue shirt, gray slacks, moccasins with the counters broken down, a shaving cut on the side of his face [...].
Etymology 3
From counter- .Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.}}
Adjective
(-)- His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.
- Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle.
Derived terms
* counter agent * counter fugue * counter current * counter revolution * counter poison : See also:Adverb
(-)- running counter to all the rules of virtue
- a hound that runs counter
- This is counter , you false Danish dogs!
- which [darts] they never throw counter , but at the back of the flier
Noun
(en noun)- with kindly counter under mimic shade