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  • intransitive verb. To speak or write as a reaction to a question or other prompting.
  • intransitive verb. To act in reaction or as a response: synonym: answer.
  • intransitive verb. To respond to the defendant's answer or plea.
  • intransitive verb. To say or give as an answer.
  • noun. A word or a series of words spoken or written in reaction, as to a question or request.
  • noun. An act made in reaction or response.
  • noun. A plaintiff's response to the defendant's answer or plea, especially with regard to counterclaims made by the defendant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An answer; a response.
  • noun. The act or power of answering, especially with fitness or conclusiveness.
  • noun. That which is done for or in consequence of something else; an answer by deeds; a counter-attack: as, his reply was a blow.
  • noun. In music, the answer of a fugue.
  • To fold back.
  • To return for an answer.
  • To make answer; answer; respond.
  • To do or give something in return for something else; make return or response; answer by suitable action; meet an attack: as, to reply to the enemy's fire.
  • In law, to answer a defendant's plea.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
  • transitive verb. To return for an answer.
  • intransitive verb. To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
  • intransitive verb. To answer a defendant's plea.
  • intransitive verb. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
  • verb. To act or gesture in response.
  • verb. To repeat something back; to echo.
  • noun. A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
  • noun. Something given in reply.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. react verbally
  • noun. a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
  • noun. the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
  • Word Usage
    "The easiest way to reply to a tweet is to hit the @reply icon which broadcasts your answer to all your followers, essentially Twitter's equivalent of the "reply all" email function."
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