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Word Meanings - RESPOND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. 2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart,

Additional info about word: RESPOND

1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. 2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. Buckminster. To every theme responds thy various lay. Broome. 3. To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. Syn. -- To answer; reply; rejoin. See Reply.

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  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • RESPOND
    1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. 2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart,
  • ANSWER
    1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
  • REPLY
    To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref.
  • REJOINT
    1. To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow. 2. Specifically , to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather. Gwilt.
  • REPLICATE; REPLICATED
    Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.
  • RESPONDENCE; RESPONDENCY
    The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering. A. Chalmers. The angelical soft trembling voice made To the instruments divine respondence meet. Spenser.
  • ANSWERLESS
    Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
  • REPLYER
    See BACON
  • ANSWERABLE
    1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
  • RESPONDENT
    Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon.
  • REJOIN
    1. To join again; to unite after separation. 2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot. Pope. 3. To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
  • ANSWERABLY
    In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
  • REPLICATE
    To reply.
  • ANSWERER
    One who answers.
  • RESPONDENTIA
    A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. Bouvier.
  • REVERBERATE
    strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare to lash, whip, beat, 1. Reverberant. "The reverberate hills." Shak. 2. Driven back, as sound; reflected. Drayton.
  • ANSWERABLENESS
    The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
  • REJOINDURE
    Act of joining again. "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" . Shak.
  • REJOINDER
    The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication. Syn. -- Reply; ansswer; replication. See Reply. (more info) 1. An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
  • INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
    Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
  • CORRESPOND
    1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
  • CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
    A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
  • CORRESPONDINGLY
    In a corresponding manner; conformably.
  • SURREJOIN
    To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
  • UNANSWERABLE
    Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.
  • DISCORRESPONDENT
    Incongruous. W. Montagu.
  • REECHO; RE-ECHO
    To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reëcho the roar of cannon.
  • CO-RESPONDENT
    One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.
  • CORRESPONDENCY
    See CLARKE

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