(v. t.) To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
(v. t.) To recall; to bring back.
(v. t.) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.
(v. i.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.
(n.) A seeking again; a discovery.
(n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(3) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(4) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
(5) All the patients underwent oocyte retrieval and 94.3% of the harvested oocytes were preovulatory.
(6) Amniotic fluid was retrieved by amniocentesis from 148 women: patients at term with and without labor, patients with preterm labor with and without intraamniotic infection, and women in the second trimester of pregnancy.
(7) It is postulated that in case vasopressin affects retrieval processes the site of action is located in the amygdala and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal complex with dopamine and serotonin as the respective neurotransmitter systems involved.
(8) The clinical data thus entered is highly organized, easily legible and retrievable in many ways.
(9) Levels of both free and total androstenedione increased significantly from the second day of the menstrual cycle until oocyte retrieval in non-conceptional IVF cycles, whereas levels in conceptional IVF cycles and unstimulated cycles showed no increase.
(10) This was interpreted as a drug-induced impairment of memory retrieval.
(11) Retrieval was manipulated by representing a proportion of the old picture and word items in their opposite form during the recognition test (i.e., some old pictures were tested with their corresponding words and vice versa).
(12) An interactive image-processing workstation enables rapid image retrieval, reduces the examination repeat rate, provides for image enhancement, and rapidly sets the desired display parameters for laser-printed images.
(13) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
(14) There appears to be a perceptual limitation in olfaction relative to vision that influences stimulus encoding and stimulus retrieval processes but that does not affect retrieval of associated responses.
(15) Work with colleagues to retrieve, centrally store, check permissions and give new life to these assets.
(16) The specific problems addressed pertain to the storage and retrieval of historical information, physical signs and diagnosis.
(17) In laparoscopic oocyte retrievals, a negative correlation was observed between duration of CO2 exposure and follicular fluid pH, whereas in ultrasound-guided retrievals, the pH remained unchanged.
(18) Printed-word comprehension appeared to involve prior retrieval of a phonological code for less frequent words.
(19) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.
(20) This case illustrates: (1) acid medium, chymotrypsin, or sucrose are not needed for the procedure of zona cutting; (2) the zygotes resulting from zona cutting survive through freezing and thawing; and (3) oocyte retrieval can be done concomitant with conservative surgery for endometriosis.
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.