TubeTalk Pronunciation

How to pronounce “return”

Hear “return” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.

Pronunciation guide for return

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of return with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Trying to Solve the Investment Puzzleon the idea of compound return.
Definition summary: (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).

Example 1 of 8

How to pronounce return

Trying to Solve the Investment Puzzle

on the idea of compound return.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “return”

Meaning

[Verb]
(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
(intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
(intransitive) To recur; to come again.
(intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
(transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
(transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
(transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
(transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
(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.
(cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
(transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
(intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
(transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
(transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
(transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
(British, by extension, dated in the US) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
(fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
[Noun]
The act of returning.
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.
(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 return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
(mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
(American football) The act of 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.
(architecture) 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.

Practice Nearby Words

come back, get back, go back, comeback, bring back, give back, recurrence, regaining, restoration, revert, rejoin, refund, regress, reelect, turn back, take back, yield, repay, pass, give, recall, generate, restitution, take, render, proceeds, retort, deliver, rejoinder, payoff, devolve, issue, income tax return, tax return, fall, homecoming, riposte, hark back, coming back, getting even, paying back, return key, takings, retour, retrieving, retrieve, retrieval, recover, resume, recovery, reinstate, regain, rehabilitate, callback, recuperation, reclamation, reversion, rehabilitation, restore, redux, reinstatement, restored, reactivation, reintegrate, reshipment, resumption, reopen, reestablishment, reappearance, renew, re-entry, reintegration, restart, reenter, renewal, revive, resurgence, rededication, rebuild, reset, revival, reunification, rededicate, readmit, resetting, reinsertion, re-emergence, re-establish, reinvest, regression, reentry, throwback, re-engage, refoulement, re-establishment, recommit, reapply, reconsider, revisit, re-enter

How to pronounce “return”

Pronunciation guide for return

How to pronounce return

Example Sentences

on the idea of compound return.

for generating outstanding returns in the market.

I'm going to talk a little bit about the Mars sample return

there is a tendency for the rate of return of capital

the magic beans did return wealth.

sales, I also returned to Colombia,

and this was not a great time to be in the market; it had a 7% return. If you had in

it's about longing, it's about return.

A Deep Dive Into “return”

Meaning

Practice Nearby Words

Similar Sounds