A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude, A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion, The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position

(computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory, the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness, The act retrieving

A retrieval, sports The return of a difficult ball, obsolete The recovery of game once sprung, verb_ go for and bring back, recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection, run after, pick up, and bring to the master, transitive verb_ To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury, To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge, To recall; to bring back, intransitive verb_ To rescue or save, To gain access to (stored information), To search for, find, and carry back (killed game or a thrown object). Used of dogs

Simple past tense and past participle of retrieve

Retroactive, of, or relating to the past, past times, or the way things were, affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto, noun_ something, such as a fashion, from the past; a retro trend, a retrorocket, Fashion or style, as in music, reminiscent of an earlier time

To give or send back in reciprocation, To produce or yield (profit or interest) as a payment for labor, investment, or expenditure, Football To run with (the ball) after a kickoff, punt, interception, or fumble, noun_ The act or condition of going, coming, bringing, or sending back, Merchandise returned, as to a retailer by a consumer or to a wholesaler by a retailer, A report, list, or set of statistics, especially one that is formal or official

Simple past tense and past participle of return

Present participle of return, adjective_ tending to return to an earlier state, tending to be turned back

Plural form of return, Merchandise returned to a retailer or wholesaler by a purchaser, Unsold merchandise returned to the supplier, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of return

the act of coming together again, a party of former associates who have come together again, An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so composed