Definition of "report"

report

/ɹɪˈpɔːt/

verb
third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported
1. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
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  Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
  2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, pages 47–48
2. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
3. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.
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  thenne they ansuerd by and by that they coude not excuse the quene / […] / Allas sayd the quene I made this dyner for a good entente / and neuer for none euyl soo almyghty god me help in my ryght as I was neuer purposed to doo suche euylle dedes / and that I reporte me vnto god(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII
4. (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
5. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
6. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
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  In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. Audio (US)(file)
  2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
8. (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
9. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
10. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
11. (obsolete) To refer.
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  Baldwine his ſonne, the fourth of that name [Baldwin IV of Jerusalem], ſucceeded his father [Amalric of Jerusalem]: ſo like unto him, that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will ſpare the repeating his description.
  1639, Thomas Fuller, “Baldwine the Fourth Succeedeth; His Education under William the Reverend Archbishop of Tyre”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], book II, page 94
12. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
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  a church with windows only from above […] that reporteth the voice twelve or thirteen times
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
noun
plural reports
1. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
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  Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report, which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.
  2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian‎
2. Reputation.
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  I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 36”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
  Certain it is that if he had been daft before, he now ran wild in his pranks, and an evil report of him was in every mouth.
  1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
3. (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
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  1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley
  […] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
  1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883
  He knelt upon one knee, cocked the weapon, placed the muzzle against the man's forehead, and turning away his eyes pulled the trigger. There was no report. He had used his last cartridge for the horse.
  1889, Ambrose Bierce, The Coup de Grâce
4. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

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