different between return vs award

English

Alternative forms

• returne (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English returnen, retornen, from Anglo-Norman returner, from Old French retourner, retorner, from Medieval Latin retornare (“to turn back”), from re- + tornare (“to turn”). Compare beturn.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Hyphenation: re?turn

Verb

return (third-person singular simple present returns, present participle returning, simple past and past participle returned)

1. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
2. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

3. (intransitive) To recur; to come again.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.

   • ‘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.’

5. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.

   • Whan Kyng Marke harde hym sey that worde, he returned his horse and abode by hym.

6. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.

7. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.

8. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.

9. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
10. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.

11. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.

12. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
13. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
14. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
15. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.

16. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
17. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.

    to return the result of an election
18. (Britain, by extension) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

return (plural returns)

1. The act of returning.
2. A return ticket.

3. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.

4. An answer.

5. 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.

6. Gain or loss from an investment.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     from the few hours we spend in prayer and the exercises of a pious life , the return is great and profitable
7. (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.

8. (computing) A carriage return character.
9. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
10. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
11. A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from central plant).

12. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
13. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
14. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
15. (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.

Synonyms

• (the act of returning): gaincoming

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Turner, turner

English

Etymology

From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??w??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??w??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

award (plural awards)

1. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
2. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
3. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
4. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.

Derived terms

• Academy Award
• award ceremony
• book award
• Darwin Award

Translations

Verb

award (third-person singular simple present awards, present participle awarding, simple past and past participle awarded)

1. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge

   the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant

   • To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.

2. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
3. (transitive) To give (an award).

   Synonym: bestow

   Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.

4. (transitive) To give (a person) an award.

   He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Synonyms

• (make or grant an award): crown

Derived terms

• awardable
• awardee
• awarder
• awarding
• awardment
• reaward

Translations

Further reading

• award in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• award in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Warda, adraw