Dictionary entry details
• REPORT (noun)
Meaning:
A written document describing the findings of some individual or group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
report; written report; study
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"):
medical report (a report of the results of a medical examination of a patient)
position paper (a report that explains or justifies or recommends some particular policy)
progress report (a report of work accomplished during a specified time period)
green paper (a preliminary report of government proposals that is published in order to stimulate discussion)
blue book (a report published by the British government; bound in blue)
white book; white paper (a government report; bound in white)
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)
assay (a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance)
Meaning:
A short account of the news
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
write up; news report; report; account; story
Context examples:
the report of his speech / 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
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"):
exclusive; scoop (a news report that is reported first by one news organization)
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)
communique; despatch; dispatch (an official report (usually sent in haste))
bulletin (a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast))
newsletter; newssheet (report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group)
Meaning:
The act of informing by verbal report
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
account; report
Context examples:
he heard reports that they were causing trouble / 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"):
comment; gossip; scuttlebutt (a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people)
narration; recital; yarn (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)
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)
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))
Meaning:
A written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
report card; report
Context example:
his father signed his report card
Hypernyms ("report" is a kind of...):
info; information (a message received and understood)
Meaning:
An essay (especially one written as an assignment)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
paper; theme; report; composition
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)
Meaning:
The general estimation that the public has for a person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
reputation; report
Context examples:
he acquired a reputation as an actor before he started writing / 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)
Meaning:
To give an account or representation of in words
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
report; describe; account
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 or 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
Meaning:
Announce as the result of an investigation, or announce something to the proper authorities
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context examples:
Dozens of incidents of wife beatings are reported daily in this city / 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
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
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 or affairs, or event to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Meaning:
Be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
report; cover
Context examples:
Snow reported on China in the 1950's / The cub reporter covered New York City
Hypernyms (to "report" is one way to...):
inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
They won't report the story
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
