earth return

British  

noun

1. the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to earth at each end

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Example Sentences

Those who survive it, those who remain on earth, return to the world to wear an actor's countenance and to play an actor's part.

From A Woman of Thirty by Balzac, Honoré de

Those that to earth return no more—the sense-subdued, the hermits wise, Priests their sage masters that adore—to their eternal seats arise.

From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Milman, Henry Hart

Thou art earth, and thou shalt to earth return.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

In roseate clouds I take my ease  Nor to the earth return.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

Whether of mortal mould, or a mere borrower on occasion of our rude forms of earth, return, and say whence thy commission, and of what import.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various