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respond
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French respondre (Modern répondre), from Latin responde?.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nd
Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???sp?nd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???sp?nd/
Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???sp?nd/, /??i??sp?nd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???sp?nd/
Verb
respond (third-person singular simple present responds, present participle responding, simple past and past participle responded)
- (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
- to respond to a question or an argument
- (intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.
- (transitive, intransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
- For his great deeds respond his speeches great.
- (transitive) To satisfy; to answer.
- The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.
- (intransitive) To be liable for payment.
Derived terms
- responder
- responsive
Translations
Noun
respond (plural responds)
- A response.
- A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
- (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
Related terms
- response
- responsible
- responsibleness
- responsibly
- responsibility
- responsive
- responsively
- responsiveness
See also
- react
References
- respond in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- respond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Ponders, ponders
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unreactive
English
Alternative forms
- un-reactive
Etymology
un- +? reactive
Adjective
unreactive (comparative more unreactive, superlative most unreactive)
- (chemistry) Not reactive; relatively inert.
- (psychology) That does not respond to a stimulation.
Translations
Synonyms
- nonreactive
Antonyms
- reactive
Related terms
- unreactivity
Anagrams
- uncreative
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