REPORT, v.t. [l. reporto, to carry back; re and porto, to bear.]

1. An account returned; a statement or relation of facts given in reply to inquiry, or by a person authorized to examine and make return to his employer. From Thetis sent as spies to make report. – Waller.
2. Rumor; common fame; story circulated. Report, though often originating in fact, soon becomes incorrect, and is seldom deserving of credit. When we have no evidence but popular report, it is prudent to suspend our opinions in regard to the facts.
3. Repute; public character; as, evil report and good report. – 2 Cor. vi. Cornelius was of good report among the Jews. – Acts x.
4. Account; story; relation. It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. – 1 Kings x.
5. Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon. – Bacon.
6. An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, &c. The books containing such statements are also called reports.
7. An official statement of facts, verbal or written; particularly, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads of departments to congress, of a master in chancery on to the court, of committees to a legislative body, and the like.

To make a statement of facts. The committee will report at twelve o'clock.

1. To bear or bring back an answer, or to relate what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained. The committee reported the whole number of votes.
2. To give an account of; to relate; to tell. They reported his good deeds before me. – Neh. vi. Acts iv.
3. To tell or relate from one to another; to circulate publicly, as a story; as in the common phrase, it is reported. It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel. – Neh. vi. In this form of expression, it refers to the subsequent clause of the sentence; “that thou and the Jews think to rebel, is reported.”
4. To give an official account or statement; as, the secretary of the treasury reports to congress annually the amount of revenue and expenditure.
5. To give an account or statement of cases and decisions in a court of law or chancery.
6. To return, as sound; to give back. – Bacon. To be reported, or usually, to be reported of, to be well or ill spoken of; to be mentioned with respect or reproach. – Acts xvi. Rom. iii.

1. To refer.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   Baldwin, his son, . . . succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description. Fuller.

2. To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.
3. That which is reported.
   
   
   Specifically: (a)
4. To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress.
   
   

   There is no man that may reporten all. Chaucer.

5. To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.
   
   

6. Rapport; relation; connection; reference.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   The corridors worse, having no report to the wings they join to. Evelyn.

   Syn. -- Account; relation; narration; detail; description; recital; narrative; story; rumor; hearsay.

7. To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported.
   
   
   Shak.

   It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel. Neh. vi. 6.

8. To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.
9. To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures.
10. To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
    
    
    [Obs. or R.] "A church with windows only from above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times." Bacon.
11. To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.
12. To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.
13. To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race.
14. To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer.
    
    

    To be reported, or To be reported of, to be spoken of; to be mentioned, whether favorably or unfavorably. Acts xvi. 2. -- To report one's self, to betake one's self, as to a superior or one to whom service is due, and be in readiness to receive orders or do service.

    Syn. -- To relate; narrate; tell; recite; describe.