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.

a statement or announcement.

a widely circulated statement or item of news; rumor; gossip.

an account of a speech, debate, meeting, etc., esp. as taken down for publication.

a loud noise, as from an explosion

the report of a distant cannon.

a statement of a student's grades, level of achievement, or academic standing for or during a prescribed period of time.

Computers . output, esp. printed, containing organized information.

a statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of justice.

reports, Law . a collection of adjudications.

repute; reputation; fame

a man of bad report.

to carry and repeat, as an answer or message; repeat, as what one has heard.

to relate, as what has been learned by observation or investigation.

to give or render a formal account or statement of

to report a deficit.

to send back (a bill, amendment, etc.) to a legislative body with a formal report outlining findings and recommendations (often fol. by out )

The committee reported out the bill.

to make a charge against (a person), as to a superior

I intend to report him to the dean for cheating.

to make known the presence, condition, or whereabouts of

to report a ship missing.

to present (oneself) to a person in authority, as in accordance with requirements.

to take down (a speech, lecture, etc.) in writing.

to write an account of (an event, situation, etc.), as for publication in a newspaper.

to relate or tell.

to prepare, make, or submit a report of something observed, investigated, or the like.

to serve or work as a reporter, as for a newspaper.

to make one's condition or whereabouts known, as to a person in authority

to report sick.

to present oneself duly, as at a place

to report to Room 101.

on report

Military . (of personnel) under restriction pending disciplinary action.

noun

quiet , silence

verb

conceal , suppress , reserve , withhold

noun

address , announcement , article , blow by blow , brief , broadcast , cable , chronicle , communication , communique , declaration , description , detail , digest , dispatch , handout , history , hot wire , information , message , narration , narrative , news , note , opinion , outline , paper , picture , piece , prcis , proclamation , pronouncement , recital , record , relation , release , rsum , rundown , scoop * , statement , summary , tale , telegram , tidings , version , wire , word * , write-up , advice , buzz * , canard , chat , chatter , chitchat , comment , conversation , cry * , dirt * , earful , grapevine * , hash * , hearsay , intelligence , murmur , prating , rumble * , rumor , scandal , scuttlebutt * , small talk * , speech , tattle , the latest , whispering , bang , blast , boom , crack , crash , detonation , discharge , explosion , reverberation , sound , character , esteem , fame , name , regard , rep , repute , account , gossipry , talebearing , tittle-tattle , word , bark , clap , pop , rat-a-tat-tat , snap , bruit , cahier , expose , noise , on dit , repercussion , reputation

verb

account for , advise , air , announce , bring word , broadcast , cable , circulate , cover , declare , describe , detail , disclose , document , enunciate , give an account of , give the facts , impart , inform , inscribe , itemize , list , make known , make public , mention , narrate , note , notify , pass on , present , proclaim , promulgate , provide details , publish , recite , record , recount , rehearse , relate , relay , retail , reveal , set forth , spread , state , summarize , telephone , tell , trumpet , wire , write up , appear , arrive , be at hand , be present , clock in , come , get to , reach , show , show up , turn up * , break , carry , convey , get across , pass , transmit , account , advice , article , brief , bruit , bulletin , comment , communicate , crackle , digest , grapevine , hearing , hearsay , information , message , narrative , news , noise , notice , recital , release , reputation , rumor , statement , story , summary , tattle , word