different between reciprocal vs returned

English

Etymology

Latin reciprocus, possibly from a phrase such as reque proque (“back and forth, to and fro”), from re- (“back”), pr? (“forwards”) and -que (“and”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s?p??k(?)l/

Adjective

reciprocal (not comparable)

1. Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
2. Mutually interchangeable.
   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard

     These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.

3. (grammar) expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive
4. (mathematics) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
5. Done, given, felt, or owed in return

Synonyms

• mutual, two-way
• contrary, opposite, converse, inverse, inverted, cross
• (grammar): reflexive
• See also Thesaurus:contrary

Derived terms

• irreciprocal

Related terms

• reciprocity

Translations

Noun

reciprocal (plural reciprocals)

1. (arithmetic) The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.

2. (grammar) A construction expressing mutual action.
   • 2008, Ekkehard König, Volker Gast, Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations

     Depending on where reciprocalization applies (syntax vs. lexicon), the relevant reciprocal verbs are claimed to exhibit specific properties, in particular: (i) syntactic reciprocals are fully productive whereas lexical reciprocals have only limited productivity; […]

Synonyms

• (in arithmetic): multiplicative inverse

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t??nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t?nd/
• Hyphenation: re?turned

Verb

returned

1. simple past tense and past participle of return

Adjective

returned (comparative more returned, superlative most returned)

1. Bent back; angled. [from 15th c.]
2. That has come back. [from 16th c.]
3. (finance) Yielded as a return on an investment etc. [From 17th c.]
4. (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Back home having been discharged from military service. [from 19th c.]
   • 1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38:

     There are about thirty full-blooded returned men in this state whom I believe are not entitled to the old-age pension.