<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.</li><li>Synonyms: story, description.</li><li>a statement or announcement.</li><li>Synonyms: dispatch, bulletin.</li><li>a widely circulated statement or item of news; rumor; gossip.</li><li>an account of a speech, debate, meeting, etc., especially as taken down for publication.</li><li>a loud noise, as from an explosion: the report of a distant cannon.</li><li>Synonyms: detonation, shot.</li><li>a statement of a student's grades, level of achievement, or academic standing for or during a prescribed period of time.</li><li>Computers: output, especially printed, containing organized information.</li><li>a statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of justice.</li><li>reports, Law: a collection of adjudications.</li><li>repute; reputation; fame: a man of bad report.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to carry and repeat, as an answer or message; repeat, as what one has heard.</li><li>Synonyms: relay.</li><li>to relate, as what has been learned by observation or investigation.</li><li>Synonyms: relay.</li><li>to give or render a formal account or statement of: to report a deficit.</li><li>to send back (a bill, amendment, etc.) to a legislative body with a formal report outlining findings and recommendations (often followed by out): The committee reported out the bill.</li><li>to make a charge against (a person), as to a superior: I intend to report him to the dean for cheating.</li><li>Synonyms: accuse.</li><li>to make known the presence, condition, or whereabouts of: to report a ship missing.</li><li>to present (oneself) to a person in authority, as in accordance with requirements.</li><li>to take down (a speech, lecture, etc.) in writing.</li><li>to write an account of (an event, situation, etc.), as for publication in a newspaper.</li><li>to relate or tell.</li><li>Synonyms: repeat, detail, describe, recount, rehearse, narrate.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to prepare, make, or submit a report of something observed, investigated, or the like.</li><li>to serve or work as a reporter, as for a newspaper.</li><li>to make one's condition or whereabouts known, as to a person in authority: to report sick.</li><li>to present oneself duly, as at a place: to report to Room 101.</li></ul>