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

Sleep! toward the heavens If thy spirit has flown, Do not to earth return Without having obtained To bring thee up well For me the favour; This duty is all That is life to me!

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

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

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

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

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