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Report   /ripˈɔrt/  /rɪpˈɔrt/   Listen
Report

noun
1.
A written document describing the findings of some individual or group.  Synonyms: study, written report.
2.
The act of informing by verbal report.  Synonym: account.  "By all accounts they were a happy couple"
3.
A short account of the news.  Synonyms: account, news report, story, write up.  "The story was on the 11 o'clock news" , "The account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"
4.
A sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing).
5.
A written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment.  Synonym: report card.
6.
An essay (especially one written as an assignment).  Synonyms: composition, paper, theme.
7.
The general estimation that the public has for a person.  Synonym: reputation.  "He was a person of bad report"
verb
(past & past part. reported; pres. part. reporting)
1.
To give an account or representation of in words.  Synonyms: account, describe.
2.
Announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding.  "The team reported significant advances in their research"
3.
Announce one's presence.
4.
Make known to the authorities.
5.
Be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism.  Synonym: cover.  "The cub reporter covered New York City"
6.
Complain about; make a charge against.



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"Report" Quotes from Famous Books



... attract you, or does it seem too unreal? 2. Note specific cases of pictures, appeals to various senses, and melody. 3. Compare or contrast his feeling for Nature and his treatment of Nature in his poetry with that of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, or Byron. Read 'Adonais' last and include in your report an outline of it in a dozen or two sentences, with references to stanza numbers. The outline should indicate the divisions of the poems and should make the thought-development clear. (The poem imitates the Greek elegies, of which the earliest now preserved was ...
— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher
... a committee was appointed by the British Association for the Advancement of Science "to inquire into the influence of school-books upon eyesight." This committee's report dwells on the fact that the child's eye is still in process of development and needs larger type than the fully developed eye of the adult. In making its recommendation for the standardization of school-book type, which it considers the solution of the difficulty, the committee ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... had been sent forward from Corcyrato carry the news of their approach to Egesta, and claim the promised subsidy, and at the same time to sound the temper of the Greek cities in Sicily. Before long the ships came back with their report, and the Athenians now learned to their great chagrin that all the fabled wealth of Egesta had dwindled to the paltry sum of ...
— Stories From Thucydides • H. L. Havell
... his father, "if she knew you now. Only you must bear the chance in mind in dealing with him. And it's only fair to tell you the Union Master's report on him." ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... must have thought the thoughts, seen the objects (with bodily or mental vision), and felt the feelings; otherwise he can have no power over us. Importance does not depend on rarity so much as on authenticity. The massacre of a distant tribe, which is heard through the report of others, falls far below the heart-shaking effect of a murder committed in our presence. Our sympathy with the unknown victim may originally have been as torpid as that with the unknown tribe; but it has been kindled by the swift and vivid suggestions of details visible to us ...
— The Principles of Success in Literature • George Henry Lewes


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