The difference between Gaincoming and Return

When used as nouns, gaincoming means return, whereas return means the act of returning.


Return is also verb with the meaning: to come or go back (to a place or person).

check bellow for the other definitions of Gaincoming and Return

  1. Gaincoming as a noun (obsolete):

    Return; a coming again; second coming or advent.

  1. Return as a verb (intransitive):

    To come or go back (to a place or person).

    Examples:

    "Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter."

  2. Return as a verb (intransitive):

    To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

    Examples:

    "To return to my story..."

  3. Return as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To turn back, retreat.

  4. Return as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To turn (something) round.

  5. Return as a verb (transitive):

    To place or put back something where it had been.

    Examples:

    "Please return your hands to your lap."

  6. Return as a verb (transitive):

    To give something back to its original holder or owner.

    Examples:

    "You should return the library book within one month."

  7. Return as a verb (transitive):

    To take back something to a vendor for a refund.

    Examples:

    "If the goods don't work, you can return them."

  8. Return as a verb:

    To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

  9. Return as a verb (tennis):

    To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.

    Examples:

    "The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast."

  10. Return as a verb (card games):

    To play a card as a result of another player's lead.

    Examples:

    "If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump."

  11. Return as a verb (cricket):

    To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.

  12. Return as a verb (transitive):

    To say in reply; to respond.

    Examples:

    "to return an answer;  to return thanks"

  13. Return as a verb (intransitive, computing):

    To relinquish control to the calling procedure.

  14. Return as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.

    Examples:

    "This function returns the number of files in the directory."

  15. Return as a verb (transitive, dated):

    To retort; to throw back.

    Examples:

    "to return the lie"

  16. Return as a verb (transitive):

    To report, or bring back and make known.

    Examples:

    "to return the result of an election"

  17. Return as a verb (by extension, UK):

    To elect according to the official report of the election officers.

  1. Return as a noun:

    The act of returning.

    Examples:

    "I expect the house to be spotless upon my return."

  2. Return as a noun:

    A return ticket.

    Examples:

    "Do you want a one-way or a return?"

  3. Return as a noun:

    An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.

    Examples:

    "Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before."

  4. Return as a noun:

    An answer.

    Examples:

    "a return to one's question"

  5. Return as a noun:

    An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.

    Examples:

    "election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold"

  6. Return as a noun:

    Gain or loss from an investment.

    Examples:

    "It yielded a return of 5%."

  7. Return as a noun (taxation, finance):

    A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.

    Examples:

    "Hand in your return by the end of the tax year."

  8. Return as a noun (computing):

    A carriage return character.

  9. Return as a noun (computing):

    The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.

  10. Return as a noun (computing):

    A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.

  11. Return as a noun:

    A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.

  12. Return as a noun (American football):

    Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.

  13. Return as a noun (cricket):

    A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.

  14. Return as a noun (architecture):

    The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.

    Examples:

    "A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south."

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