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return | suicide |

As verbs the difference between return and suicide

is that return is to come or go back (to a place or person) while suicide is to kill oneself intentionally.

As nouns the difference between return and suicide

is that return is the act of returning while suicide is (uncountable) intentional killing of oneself, as a kind of action or social phenomenon.

return

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To come or go back (to a place or person).
  • :
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 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.}}
  • 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.
  • :
  • 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.
  • :
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the verb "return") * return to form

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of returning.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , 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.
  • a return to one's question
  • 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.
  • election returns'''; a '''return of the amount of goods produced or sold
  • Gain or loss from an investment.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The fruit from many days of recreation is very little; but from these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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 .}}
  • (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.
  • 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 return

    Statistics

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    suicide

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.
  • * 1904 , , The Man On The Box , ch. 22:
  • The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
  • , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. The UK government will come under pressure to block access to pornographic websites this year when a committee of MPs publishes its report on protecting children online.}}
  • (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
  • * 1919 , , The Secret House , ch. 14:
  • There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.
  • * 1999 , Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion , Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-0978-9, page 192:
  • In this way the community were not only escaping the threat of ‘global destruction’, they were hurling themselves directly into ‘the lap of God’, using their suicide as a way of ‘bridging the chasm’ between an earthly world which had no future and ‘a thousand years of unmitigated peace’.
  • (countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
  • * 1915 , , Of Human Bondage , ch. 95:
  • "I remember one suicide ," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."
  • (figuratively) An action which could have the literal or figurative death of a person or organization as its consequence, although death is not the aim of the action.
  • * 1959 , , in the Congressional Record , Feb. 9, page 2100:[http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_emd_quotes.htm]
  • I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
  • * 2000 , Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, The Ice Limit (ISBN 0446525871):
  • “Mr. Glinn,” said Britton, “it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather.”
  • * 2004 , Robert D. Lock, Job Search: Career Planning Guide (ISBN 0534574211), page 24:
  • it's suicide to change jobs in mid-career.
  • (countable) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
  • * 1994 , Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California , University of Nevada Press, ISBN 0-87417-247-0, page 34:
  • You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide , and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water.
  • * 2000 , , For God, Country and Coca-Cola , Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-05468-4, page 15:
  • Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.
  • A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
  • (countable) A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
  • The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.
  • A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
  • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Derived terms

    * * Chinese suicide (diabolo trick) * infinite suicides (diabolo trick) * mass suicide * murder-suicide * suicidal * suicide attack, suicide attacker * suicide bomb, suicide bomber, suicide bombing * suicide king * suicide mission * suicide note * suicide pact

    Verb

    (suicid)
  • To kill oneself intentionally.
  • * 1917 , (Lucy Maud Montgomery), Anne's House of Dreams , ch. 11:
  • "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"
  • * 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, page 136:
  • Seems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time.
  • To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
  • * 1874 , The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art , page 315:
  • What genius but the Irish would have thought of a sow "gladiatoring her way" through the briars and furze; or of her pursuer calling out to her that if she didn't stop she would be "suicided by that holly-tree"?
  • * 1898 October 29, in Punch, or the London charivari , page 196:
  • Have bought The Shanghai Chopsticks''. Proprietor at first refused to sell, but when I ordered the boiling oil he became more reasonable. Editor reports that circulation is not what it ought to be. Will publish proclaimation, "Any person found not in possession of ''The Shanghai Chopsticks (current number) will be suicided. "
  • * 2011 , Tobias Jones, White Death (ISBN 0571275907), page 273:
  • Even if he did get charged, he would be suicided long before he could involve one of the city's most important politicians in the scam.

    Quotations

    Synonyms

    * top oneself * commit suicide * do oneself in * self-kill

    See also

    * hara-kiri * kamikaze * seppuku ----