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Report   /ripˈɔrt/  /rɪpˈɔrt/   Listen
noun
Report  n.  
1.
That which is reported. Specifically:
(a)
An account or statement of the results of examination or inquiry made by request or direction; relation. "From Thetis sent as spies to make report."
(b)
A story or statement circulating by common talk; a rumor; hence, fame; repute; reputation. "It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom." "Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and... of good report among all the nation of the Jews."
(c)
Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon.
(d)
An official statement of facts, verbal or written; especially, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads af departments to Congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body, and the like.
(e)
An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc.; also, in the plural, the volumes containing such reports; as, Coke's Reports.
(f)
A sketch, or a fully written account, of a speech, debate, or the proceedings of a public meeting, legislative body, etc.
2.
Rapport; relation; connection; reference. (Obs.) "The corridors worse, having no report to the wings they join to."
Synonyms: Account; relation; narration; detail; description; recital; narrative; story; rumor; hearsay.


verb
Report  v. t.  (past & past part. reported; pres. part. reporting)  
1.
To refer. (Obs.) "Baldwin, his son,... succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description."
2.
To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress. "There is no man that may reporten all."
3.
To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported. "It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel."
4.
To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures.
5.
To return or repeat, as sound; to echo. (Obs. or R.) "A church with windows only from above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times."
6.
(Parliamentary Practice) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.
7.
To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.
8.
To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race.
9.
To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer.
To be reported, or To be reported of, to be spoken of; to be mentioned, whether favorably or unfavorably.
To report one's self, to betake one's self, as to a superior or one to whom service is due, and be in readiness to receive orders or do service.
Synonyms: To relate; narrate; tell; recite; describe.


Report  v. i.  
1.
To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.
2.
To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.
3.
To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.





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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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