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respond::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | react |
| Type of | act, move |
| Has types | refuse, reject, resist, stool, treat, accept, wonder, acknowledge, answer, bristle, consent, decline, explode, flip, flip out, go for, greet, marvel, notice, overreact |
| Derivation | responsive, respondent, responder |
Examples of respond
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Tournament spokesman David Worlock did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
From the timesunion.com
Doctors usually respond shortly thereafter with a text, an e-mail or phone call.
From the freep.com
I have been asked to respond to a desperate situation in a bayfront condominium.
From the heraldtribune.com
A Radiohead representative didn't respond to a question about preliminary sales.
From the us.cnn.com
Will it respond with serious diplomacy or decide to prepare for a confrontation?
From the businessweek.com
First, he says, the firm can't be sure all the people who respond are qualified.
From the businessweek.com
Our economy has begun to respond to this massive and unprecedented intervention.
From the suntimes.com
Those lenders have until Oct. 12 to respond to the attorney general's questions.
From the charlotteobserver.com
They respond by supporting candidates who want to leave Wall Street unregulated.
From the kentucky.com
- React: show a response or a reaction to something
- Answer: react verbally; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"
- Respond favorably or as hoped; "The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy"
- A respond is a half-pier or half-pillar which is bonded into a wall and designed to carry the springer at one end of an arch.
- A response; A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection; A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch; To say something in return; to answer; to reply; To act in return; to exhibit some action or ...
- (Responding) The student actively participates in the learning process, not only attends to a stimulus, the student also reacts in some way.
- Acquiescence in Responding Willingness to Respond Satisfaction in Response
- (Responding) (Questions to ask students before, during, or after an activity in the lesson to elicit their thinking about their own work or about work they are studying):
- (Responding) describes the second stage of the taxonomy and refers to a committment in some small measure to the ideas, materials, or phenomena involved by actively responding to them. Examples are: to comply with, to follow, to commend, to volunteer, to spend leisure time in, to acclaim.
