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

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.

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

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

The early telephones were operated with a single wire grounded at either end, the earth return being used to complete the circuit as with the telegraph.

From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Towers, Walter Kellogg

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