REPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does report mean? 

• REPORT (noun)
  The noun REPORT has 7 senses:

1. a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

2. the act of informing by verbal report

3. a short account of the news

4. a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing)

5. a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment

6. an essay (especially one written as an assignment)

7. the general estimation that the public has for a person

  Familiarity information: REPORT used as a noun is common.

• REPORT (verb)
  The verb REPORT has 6 senses:

1. to give an account or representation of in words

2. announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding

3. announce one's presence

4. make known to the authorities

5. be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism

6. complain about; make a charge against

  Familiarity information: REPORT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written document describing the findings of some individual or group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

report; study; written report

Context example:

this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale

Hypernyms ("report" is a kind of...):

document; papers; written document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "report"):

assay (a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance)

case study (a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure)

white book; white paper (a government report; bound in white)

blue book (a report published by the British government; bound in blue)

green paper (a preliminary report of government proposals that is published in order to stimulate discussion)

progress report (a report of work accomplished during a specified time period)

position paper (a report that explains or justifies or recommends some particular policy)

medical report (a report of the results of a medical examination of a patient)

Derivation:

report (to give an account or representation of in words)

report (announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of informing by verbal report

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

account; report

Context example:

by all accounts they were a happy couple

Hypernyms ("report" is a kind of...):

informing; making known (a speech act that conveys information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "report"):

narration; recital; yarn (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)

comment; gossip; scuttlebutt (a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people)

anecdote (short account of an incident (especially a biographical one))

debriefing (report of a mission or task)

megillah ((Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account)

direct discourse; direct quotation (a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g.,)

indirect discourse (a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g.,)

summarisation; summarization (the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly)

Derivation:

report (to give an account or representation of in words)

report (be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A short account of the news

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

account; news report; report; story; write up

Context example:

the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious

Hypernyms ("report" is a kind of...):

news (information reported in a newspaper or news magazine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "report"):

newsletter; newssheet (report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group)

bulletin (a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast))

communique; despatch; dispatch (an official report (usually sent in haste))

urban legend (a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false; contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true)

exclusive; scoop (a news report that is reported first by one news organization)

Derivation:

report (to give an account or representation of in words)

report (be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

they heard a violent report followed by silence

Hypernyms ("report" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Sense 5

Meaning:

A written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

report; report card

Context example:

his father signed his report card

Hypernyms ("report" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An essay (especially one written as an assignment)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

composition; paper; report; theme

Context example:

he got an A on his composition

Hypernyms ("report" is a kind of...):

essay (an analytic or interpretive literary composition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "report"):

term paper (a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The general estimation that the public has for a person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

report; reputation

Context example:

he was a person of bad report

Hypernyms ("report" is a kind of...):

estimate; estimation (the respect with which a person is held)

• REPORT (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

To give an account or representation of in words

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

account; describe; report

Context example:

Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental

Hypernyms (to "report" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They report that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

report (a short account of the news)

report (the act of informing by verbal report)

report (a written document describing the findings of some individual or group)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The team reported significant advances in their research

Hypernyms (to "report" is one way to...):

announce; denote (make known; make an announcement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They report the information to them

Derivation:

report (a written document describing the findings of some individual or group)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Announce one's presence

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

I report to work every day at 9 o'clock

Hypernyms (to "report" is one way to...):

announce; denote (make known; make an announcement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "report"):

check in; sign in (announce one's arrival, e.g. at hotels or airports)

check out (announce one's departure from a hotel)

clock off; clock out; punch out (register one's departure from work)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make known to the authorities

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

One student reported the other to the principal

Hypernyms (to "report" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 5

Meaning:

Be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cover; report

Context example:

The cub reporter covered New York City

Hypernyms (to "report" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Verb group:

cover (maintain a check on; especially by patrolling)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

They won't report the story

Derivation:

report (a short account of the news)

report (the act of informing by verbal report)

reportage (the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television)

reporter (a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories)

reporting (the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Complain about; make a charge against

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

I reported her to the supervisor

Hypernyms (to "report" is one way to...):

complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot report Sue

 Context examples 

On 16 July mate reported in the morning that one of crew, Petrofsky, was missing. Could not account for it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All deaths reported in a given population.

(Mortality, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

I don't suppose any paper will want to report it, for Waldron has been reported already a dozen times, and no one is aware that Challenger will speak.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No reports of any stranger seen?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The standard character or string for representation and reporting of microbiology susceptibility data.

(Microbiology Susceptibility Character Result in Standard Format, NCI Thesaurus)

A 20-item self-report instrument designed to measure fatigue.

(Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory, NCI Thesaurus)

Reported fit for home service for a year or two, and so I was sent off to the West Indies.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“Ah, here is Simpson to report.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Specifies whether the adverse event or reaction term is a major concern or reason for reporting the adverse event.

(Adverse Event Highlighted Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

When the volunteers started reporting that they were finding objects in the shape of yellow balls, the Spitzer researchers took note.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)