Definition of: report

(ri·pôrt′, -pōrt′) v.t.
1. To make or give an account of, especially formally: to report the minutes of a meeting, or an event for a newspaper.
2. To relate, as information obtained by investigation: Please report your findings.
3. To bear back or repeat to another, as an answer.
4. To complain about, especially to a superior: I'll report you to the manager.
5. To state the result of consideration concerning: The committee reported the bill.
—v.i.
6. To make a report.
7. To act as a reporter.
8. To present oneself, as for duty. See synonyms under ANNOUNCE.
—noun
1. That which is reported; an announcement, statement, or account; the formal statement of the result of an investigation: a medical report.
2. Common talk; rumor; hence, fame, reputation, or character: good report; reports grossly untrue.
3. A record with more or less detail of the transactions of a deliberative body.
4. An account of any occurrence prepared for publication through the press.
5. Law Usually plural A published narration (usually official) of a case or series of cases judicially considered: the Supreme Court reports.
6. An explosive sound: the report of a gun. [<OF reporter carry back <L reportare <re- back + portare carry]
—re·port′a·ble adjective Synonyms (noun): account, description, narration, narrative, recital, record, rehearsal, relation, rumor, statement, story, tale. Account, primarily a commercial summary, carries a similar meaning in the derived sense; an account of an occurrence is circumstantial, adequate, complete, and unembellished; we speak of a clear, a full, or a partial account; a glowing account is still supposed to be circumstantially as well as substantially correct. A statement is definite, confined to essentials and properly to matters within the personal knowledge of the one who states them. A narrative is a somewhat extended and embellished account of events in order of time, ordinarily with a view to please or entertain. A description gives especial scope to the pictorial element. A report is supposed or intended to bring back the past, and may be concise and formal or highly descriptive and dramatic. Compare ALLEGORY, ANECDOTE, HISTORY, NEWS, RECORD.