report

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A formal account of the proceedings or transactions of a group.
• noun A spoken or written account of an event, usually presented in detail.
• noun Law Bound volumes containing the published court opinions in legal cases, intended to provide a reference for precedents in subsequent cases.
• noun Reputation; repute.
• noun Archaic Common talk; rumor or gossip.
• noun An explosive noise.
• intransitive verb To make or present an official or formal account of.
• intransitive verb To write or provide an account or summation of for publication or broadcast.
• intransitive verb To tell about the presence or occurrence of.
• intransitive verb To relate or tell, especially from personal experience: synonym: describe.
• intransitive verb To submit or relate the results of considerations concerning.
• intransitive verb To carry back and repeat to another.
• intransitive verb To complain about or denounce.
• intransitive verb To make a report.
• intransitive verb To serve as a reporter for a publication, broadcasting company, or other news media.
• intransitive verb To present oneself.
• intransitive verb To be accountable or subordinate to someone.
• idiom (on report) Subject to disciplinary action.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To bear or bring back as an answer; relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate.
• To give an account of; make a statement concerning; say; make known; tell or relate from one to another.
• To give an official or formal account or statement of: as, to report a deficit.
• To write out and give an account or statement of, as of the proceedings, debates, etc., of a legislative body, a convention, court, etc.; specifically, to write out or take down from the lips of the speaker: as, the debate was fully reported.
• To lay a charge against; bring to the cognizance of: as, to report one to one's employer.
• To refer (one′ s self) for information or credit.
• To return or reverberate, as sound; echo back.
• To describe; represent.
• To give information about one's self; speak for one's self.
• Synonyms To announce, communicate.
• To rumor, bruit.
• To give in a report, or make a formal statement: as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.
• To give an account or description; specifically, to do the work of a reporter. See reporter .
• Same as to report one's self (see under I.): as, to report at headquarters.
• noun An account brought back or returned; a statement or relation of facts given in reply to inquiry, as the result of investigation, or by a person authorized to examine and bring or send information.
• noun A tale carried; a story circulated; hence, rumor; common fame.
• noun Repute; public character.
• noun An account or statement. ,
• noun The sound of an explosion; a loud noise.
• noun Relation; correspondence; connection; reference.
• noun Synonyms Narration, detail, description, recital, narrative, communication.
• noun Hearsay.
• noun Verdict., etc. See decision.
• Specifically, in music, to answer and echo, as voices in a madrigal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected.
• intransitive verb To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.
• intransitive verb 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.