reports

nounaccount, story
noungossip, talk
nounloud noise
nounreputation
verbcommunicate information, knowledge
verbpresent oneself

Antonyms for reports

data

noun. information in visible form

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "an account brought by one person to another, rumor," from Old French report "pronouncement, judgment" (Modern French rapport), from reporter "to tell, relate" (see report (v.)).

Meaning "resounding noise, sound of an explosion" is from 1580s. Meaning "formal statement of results of an investigation" first attested 1660s; sense of "teacher's official statement of a pupil's work and behavior" is from 1873 (report card in the school sense first attested 1919).

Example Sentences forreports

He reports that it has done so greatly and that the Prince of Cabul is a fugitive.

The reports had come in: every anarchist had been exactly accounted for.

The reports of the rifles and cannon kept every one alert and watchful.

I know you are impatient to hear what were the reports to your disadvantage, and from whom I had them.

Now the reports of the cannon could be plainly distinguished.

His judicial opinions are contained in volumes 18, 19 and 20 of the Ohio Reports.

I succeeded in getting hold of the reports, but I couldn't hang on.

She is going to telegraph from Queenstown the full essence of the reports—of both our reports.'

Reports came in that the countryside was up in arms, moving to attack the Mercutians.

Except newspapers and reports of companies, there was in it nothing printed.

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