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

This last connection is made with a bare aluminium wire and earth return, and shows that we should have little difficulty in completing our circuit to Hut Point as is contemplated.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

Thou art taken from 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

The spring shall come, and leaves grow green again,   And vernal beauty to the earth return; Sunshine and flowers shall deck the hill and plane,   And birds awake with song to greet the morn.

From Lays from the West by Nicholl, M. A.

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

In borrowed shapes to earth return; Thou, Common-wealth, a Patriot seem, Thou, Zeal, like true Religion burn, To gain the giddy crowd's esteem.—

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir