(v. t.) To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
(v. t.) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
(v. t.) To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
(v. t.) To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
(v. t.) To rescue; to deliver.
(v. t.) To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
(v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
(v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
(v. i.) To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
(v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
(n.) Recovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most frequently recovered beta LPB was Staphylococcus aureus, which was recovered in 356 (47%) patients.
(2) The patient recovered completely following discontinuation of antibiotics, transfusion of red blood cells, and treatment with glucocorticoids.
(3) The fifth patient recovered after 28 days of parenteral AMB.
(4) The ACTH deficiency recovered spontaneously, with normal cortisol responses to depot Synacthen (greater than 1380 at 6 h) and hypoglycemia (peak, 590) 14 and 18 months postpartum, respectively.
(5) Compared with cultures from afebrile women, organisms were recovered from 51 (93%) of 55 febrile postpartum women by using the triple-lumen transcervical culture method (P less than .001).
(6) N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase and alkaline phosphatase activities from other cell lines were also recovered in the cytosol.
(7) The four patients treated in our series recovered fully; the single fatal case constituted an unrecognized case of pneumococcal endocarditis.
(8) Following each ischaemic period [ATP], [CrP], [Pi], and [H+] all recovered to control levels within 5-10 min of initiating reperfusion.
(9) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
(10) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(11) Infectious virus was recovered 3 years after infection from selected tissues of 12 of 17 CAEV(63)-infected goats and 11 of 18 CAEV(Co)-infected goats.
(12) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(13) E. coli ATCC 13706 coliphage were recovered more often and in greater numbers than either of the other two types of coliphages.
(14) In contrast, the enzymic domain of the colicin (T2) remained in the aqueous phase and was recovered in a highly active form as a consequence of its dissociation from the immunity protein.
(15) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
(16) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
(17) All cases recovered uneventfully without repeated infection.
(18) Most of the somatogenic binding activity was recovered by hydroxylamine treatment, which removes O-acetyl groups from tyrosine residues but not N-acetyl groups from lysine residues.
(19) + inf., pons + medulla), rCBF increased toward the control level gradually, and it completely recovered 60 min after recirculation.
(20) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.
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.
(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.