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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



... nothing left for me there, but I had my work; I could go on weighing butter and counting eggs." Rufus Blight's voice was low and he spoke rapidly. He seemed to have it in his mind that I knew the story of those early days, had heard it, perhaps, from the lips of his brother or from common report, for men are prone to think their fellows well informed of the conspicuous facts of their lives. I dared not interrupt again for an explanation, lest my question should betray me to him as nothing more than a curious stranger. I know the story now in all its detail, but it came to me only ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... sharp sigh—and that was all. He bowed, and turned away to speak to a man who had been waiting at his elbow for some minutes. This also was a Frenchman, who seemed to have something special to report, for they ...
— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman
... least is my opinion—feel annoyed when he is thus abused, however falsely. Even those whose conscience reproaches them with some crime, are strongly moved to anger, when men speak ill of them, although they have been accustomed to such ill report ever since they became evildoers. And even though others say naught of their crimes, they are conscious enough that such charges may at any time deservedly be brought against them. It is therefore doubly vexatious to the good and innocent man when charges are undeservedly ...
— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius
... principal. Likewise, when he verbally guaranteed the disastrous Kakiku Ditch Scheme, at a time when the least sanguine did not dream a guarantee necessary—"Signed his cheque for two hundred thousand without a quiver, gentlemen, without a quiver," was the report of the secretary of the defunct enterprise, who had been sent on the forlorn hope of finding out Ah Chun's intentions. And on top of the many similar actions that were true of his word, there was scarcely a man of repute in the islands that at one time or another had not ...
— The House of Pride • Jack London
... yet not much, to talk the colonel over. He did not go to see the house, and Esther did not press that he should; he took her report of it, which was an unvarnished one, and submitted himself to what seemed the inevitable. But his daughter knew that her task would have been harder if the colonel's imagination had had the assistance of his eyesight. She was sure that the move must be made, and if it were once effected she ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner


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