What's the difference between place and return?

Place


Definition:

  • (n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
  • (n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.
  • (n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
  • (n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.
  • (n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.
  • (n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.
  • (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).
  • (n.) A definite position or passage of a document.
  • (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
  • (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.
  • (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.
  • (n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.
  • (n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.
  • (n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (2) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (3) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (4) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (5) Other research has indicated that placing gossypol in the vagina does inhibit the effect of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection, however.
  • (6) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (7) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (8) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (9) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
  • (10) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
  • (11) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
  • (12) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (13) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
  • (14) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
  • (15) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
  • (16) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
  • (17) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (18) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
  • (19) and then placed in the chamber containing a CO atmosphere (0.325-0.375%).
  • (20) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.

Return


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
  • (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
  • (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
  • (v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.
  • (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
  • (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
  • (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
  • (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
  • (v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
  • (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
  • (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
  • (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) That which is returned.
  • (n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital.
  • (n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question.
  • (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.
  • (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
  • (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.
  • (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
  • (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.
  • (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
  • (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below.
  • (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.
  • (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
  • (2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (3) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (4) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (5) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
  • (6) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (8) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (9) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
  • (10) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (11) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (12) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (13) Results indicate that energy had not returned to patients' satisfaction in 37% of the cases.
  • (14) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
  • (15) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
  • (16) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
  • (17) These results indicate that during IPPV the increased Pcv attenuates the pressure gradient for venous return and decreases CO and that the compensatory increase in Psf is caused by a blood shift from unstressed to stressed blood volume.
  • (18) A 99.0% response rate was obtained: 2750 of a possible 2778 diaries were returned.
  • (19) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
  • (20) But whatever they invested in me, they got in return 10, 20 times more.