Respond

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  • intransitive verb. To make a reply; answer.
  • intransitive verb. To act in return or in answer: synonym: answer.
  • intransitive verb. To react positively or favorably.
  • intransitive verb. To give as a reply; answer.
  • noun. A pilaster or half-pier engaged to a wall and carrying one end of an arch or groin, often at the end of an arcade.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make answer; give a reply in words; specifically, to make a liturgical response.
  • To answer or reply in any way; exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus.
  • To correspond; suit.
  • To be answerable; be liable to make payment: as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.
  • To answer to; correspond to.
  • To answer; satisfy, as by payment: as, the prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.
  • noun. An answer; a response.
  • noun. In liturgics: A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
  • noun. A response.
  • noun. In architecture, a half-pillar, pilaster. or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
  • In biology, to react under a stimulus in such a way as to prepare for or escape from an event of which, in course of nature, the stimulus is the sign, signal, or constant antecedent; answer back to a stimulus by an action that commends itself to the human observer as prudent and judicious. See response, 3.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To answer; to reply.
  • transitive verb. To suit or accord with; to correspond to.
  • noun. An answer; a response.
  • noun. A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
  • noun. A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.
  • intransitive verb. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply.
  • intransitive verb. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
  • intransitive verb. To render satisfaction; to be answerable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
  • verb. To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response; to accord.
  • verb. To correspond; to suit.
  • verb. To satisfy; to answer.
  • noun. A response.
  • noun. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
  • noun. A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. react verbally
  • verb. respond favorably or as hoped
  • verb. show a response or a reaction to something
  • Word Usage
    "DX: How did the label respond to you evolving like this?"
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    react  
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    Bond  Durand  Fronde  Gond  abscond  
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