Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R

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Retrogress (n.) 倒退；逆行；退化 Retrogression. [R.] -- H. Spenser.

Retrogress (v.) (v. i.) 倒退；逆行；退化 Get worse or fall back to a previous condition [syn: regress, retrograde, retrogress] [ant: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, progress, shape up].

Retrogress (v.) Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" [syn: relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back].

Retrogression (n.) 倒退；逆行；退化 The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.

Retrogression (n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.

Retrogressive (a.) 後退的；逆行的；退化的 Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

Retrogressive (a.) (Biol.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.

Retrogressive (a.) Going from better to worse [syn: retrograde, retrogressive].

Retrogressively (adv.) In a retrogressive manner.

Retromingency (n.) The quality or state of being retromingent. -- Sir T. Browne.

Retromingent (a.) Organized so as to discharge the urine backward.

Retromingent (n.) (Zool.) An animal that discharges its urine backward.

Retronym (n.) 返璞詞；語言變化的一種方式即創造詞條，描述已有概念的新版本或新發明，例如合成詞 electric guitar （電吉他），將新發明與現有類型的吉他區分開來。然而，隨著電吉他的使用變得越來越普遍，guitar （吉他）一詞已不再明確地描述一種不用電子放大器就能彈奏的樂器。相反，早期的發明獲得了一個新名稱，acoustic guitar （原聲吉他），以明確所指哪一種吉他。為了將已有概念與新概念區分開來而發明的詞稱為返璞詞。

A word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate; "Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym".

Retropulsive (a.) Driving back; repelling.

Retrorse (a.) Bent backward or downward. -- Re*trorse"ly, adv.

Retrorse (a.) Bent or curved backward or downward; "leaves with retrorse barbs" [ant: antrorse].

Retrospect (v. i.) To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.

It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. -- A. Hamilton.

Retrospect (n.) A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past. -- Cowper.

We may introduce a song without retrospect to the old comedy. -- Landor.

Retrospect (n.) Contemplation of things past; "in retrospect".

Retrospect (v.) Look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember; "she reviewed her achievements with pride" [syn: review, look back, retrospect].

Retrospection (n.) 回顧；追憶 The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

Retrospection (n.) Reference to things past; "the story begins with no introductory retrospections".

Retrospection (n.) Memory for experiences that are past; "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection".

Retrospective (a.) 回顧的；懷舊的；追溯的 Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

The sage, with retrospective eye. -- Pope.

Retrospective (a.) Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.

Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment. -- Macaulay.

Retrospective (a.) Concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification" [ant: {prospective}]

Retrospective (n.) 回顧展 An exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work.

Retrospective (n.) [ C ] （藝術家作品）回顧展 A show of the work an artist has done in their life so far.

// A Hockney retrospective/ a retrospective of Hockney's work.

Retrospective (a.) 涉及以往的；追溯的；回顧的 Relating to or thinking about the past.

// A retrospective album of solo Freddie Mercury tracks.

Retrospectively (adv.) By way of retrospect.

Retrousse (a.) Turned up; -- said of a pug nose.

Retrovaccination (n.) The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.

Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.

Retroverted (imp. & p. p.) of Retrovert

Retroverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrovert

Retrovert (v. t.) To turn back.

Retroverted (a.) In a state of retroversion.

Retruded (imp. & p. p.) of Retrude

Retruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrude

Retrude (v. t.) To thrust back.

Retruse (a.) Abstruse.

Retrusion (n.) The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.

Retry (v. t.) To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.

Rette (v. t.) See Aret.

Rettery (n.) A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret.

Retting (n.) The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret.

Retting (n.) A place where flax is retted; a rettery.

Retund (v. t.) To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.

Re-turn (v. t. & i.) To turn again.

Returned (imp. & p. p.) of Return

Returning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Return

Return (v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

Return (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.

Return (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.

Return (v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.

Return (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.

Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money.

Return (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

Return (v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.

Return (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.

Return (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known.

Return (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.

Return (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.

Return (v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.

Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.

Return (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.

Return (v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.

Return (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.

Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.

Return (n.) That which is returned.

Return (n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital.

Return (n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question.

Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.

Return (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.

Return (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.

Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.

Return (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.

Return (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below.

Return (n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.

Return (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.

Return (v.) (Go back) (A2) [ I ] 回；返回 To come or go back to a previous place.

// Odysseus returned home/returned to his home after many years of travelling.

// She left South Africa at the age of 15 and has never returned.

// [ + to infinitive ] David returned (from work) to find his house had burned down.

Return to sth/ to doing sth (C1) 恢復至（原來的狀態） If people or things return to a previous condition, they go back to that condition.

// Within a week, the situation had returned to normal.

Return to sth/ to doing sth (B2) 重新做；再次談及 If you return to an activity or subject, you start doing it or talking about it again.

// Gandhi urged Indians to return to spinning their own yarn.

Every five minutes, he returned to the same subject.

Return (v.) (Exchange) (C1) [ T ] 回應；回報；報答 To give, do, or get something after something similar has been given or done to you.

// To return an invitation/ greeting.

// I returned his stare.

// I gave her a ride when her car broke down and now she is returning the favour (= doing something to help me in exchange).

// The terrorists started shooting and the police returned fire (= started shooting back).

Return (v.) (Exchange) 帶來，産生（利潤等） To give a particular amount of profit.

// My investments return a high rate of interest.

Return (v.) (Put back) (A2) [ T ] 放回；歸還；帶回 To send, take, give, put, etc. something back to where it came from.

// The new TV broke so they returned it to the shop.

// He returned two books he had borrowed from me in 2003.

// She carefully returned the book to its place on the shelf.

Return (v.) (Put back) [ T ] （網球等運動中）擊回（球） In sports such as tennis, to hit the ball back to your opponent.

Return (v.) (Happen again) (B2) [ I ] 重新出現；再次發生 To happen again.

// You must go to the doctor if the pain returns.

Return (v.) (Decide)

Return a verdict/ sentence (Specialized) 宣判 To decide and say if you think someone is guilty or not guilty, or what punishment the person will be given in a court of law.

// The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

Return (v.) (Decide) [ T ] (UK) 選舉，選出 To elect someone to be a member of parliament, or to another political job.

// It was expected that he would be returned as premier.

Return (n.) (Going back) (B1) [ S ] 回；返回；回來 An occasion when someone goes or comes back to a place where they were before.

// The whole town came out to celebrate his return (from the war).

// On her return, she went straight to the office.

Return (n.) (Going back) [ S ] 重新開始；恢復 An occasion when you start to do or have something again.

// Some environmentalists argue for a return to a pre-industrial society.

// Most people have welcomed her return to power/ office.

Return (n.) (Going back) (B1) [ C ] (UK also return ticket,) (US round-trip ticket) 往返票；來回票 A ticket for travel to a place and back again.

// A return to Birmingham, please.