(n.) To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
(n.) 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 (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
(n.) To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
(n.) To be or act in return or response to.
(n.) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.
(n.) To render account to or for.
(n.) To atone; to be punished for.
(n.) To be opposite to; to face.
(n.) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
(n.) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
(v. i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.
(v. i.) To make a satisfactory response or return.
(v. i.) To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
(v. i.) To be or act in return.
(v. i.) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
(v. i.) To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
(v. i.) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
(v. i.) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
(n.) A reply to a change; a defense.
(n.) Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
(n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
(n.) A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
(n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(2) The accumulated evidence would strongly favor an affirmative answer.
(3) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?
(4) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
(5) Prior studies have provided conflicting answers to this question in part because they failed to agree on how the force of sexual selection should or could be operationalized.
(6) It’s not like there’s a simple answer.” Vassilopoulos said: “The media is all about entertainment.” “I don’t think they sell too many papers or get too many advertisements because of their coverage of income inequality,” said Calvert.
(7) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(8) In conclusion it should be stated that there is some evidence for at least two defects of cellular immunity associated with AIDS and to some extent, with AIDS-endangered homosexuals suffering from lymphadenopathy: first the defect of PMNL to answer to concanavalin A with increased metabolic activity, and secondly the defect of PMNL to start phagocytosis induced by Zymosan with a subsequent release of oxygen radicals which are measurable as chemiluminescence.
(9) The HIV-1-positive cohort answered more questions correctly (mean = 8.5) than did the HIV-1-negative cohort (mean = 6.5), largely as a result of general information about AIDS among those with steady sexual partners.
(10) Eavis, of course, is not a man who takes "no chance" for an answer.
(11) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(12) The survey takes roughly 8 minutes to complete and all answers are confidential.
(13) We've brought on two experts to answer your questions from 1-2pm BST in the comment thread on this article.
(14) She said since then HMRC had created the largest virtual call centre in the world that enabled 20,000 HMRC staff to answer calls at any one time.
(15) The answer comes down to Chalabi's considerable skill in elite manoeuvring.
(16) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(17) Hinton wrote that the answers he gave in 2007 were "sincere" and "comprehensive" and that he declined to appear.
(18) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
(19) As far as the subjective experience of children is concerned, analysis of the answers of a total of 1200 primary school children (answers classified by sex, age and period of outdoor school) proved the primary correlation with age and thus also with the level of adaptation mechanisms.
(20) Recognizing that the genesis and development of the disease process are extremely complex and the basic knowledge is limited, it is not likely that conclusive answers to questions will be forthcoming soon which will provide more effective preventive or therapeutic measures.
Counterpoint
Definition:
(n.) An opposite point
(n.) The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody
(n.) The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.
(n.) Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony.
(n.) A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane.
Example Sentences:
(1) The corporation said it counterpointed the KKK spokesman's comments with a US academic critical of the organisation.
(2) Nokia's share was lower than HTC's, according to Counterpoint, suggesting that it sold fewer than 400,000 phones in the US during September.
(3) This angelic whirling is a perfect counterpoint to the earthly chanting.
(4) The harmonious counterpoint of this septet of currents explains most of the electrical excitability properties of these cells.
(5) Not only did this life-affirming piece of mischief make the perfect counterpoint to the self-harming entrepreneurial initiative of the emaciated illusionist, it also enabled a TV audience of millions to get a taste of music they might not otherwise have heard, as Jus' a Rascal was beamed around the world as the unofficial soundtrack to the much sought after news footage of the end of Blaine's 44-day fast.
(6) "The counterpoint to the ongoing wars of aggression and the drumbeat heralding a 'clash of civilisations' is the desire of ordinary people in the west and in the Arab world to engage with each other," the Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif said at the time.
(7) Ilves was dressed in his trademark tweeds and bow tie, a counterpoint to his mission to make Estonia the most digitally progressive country in Europe .
(8) Paul Ryan’s policies are so vague that he must bolster them by nightmarish counterpoint.
(9) He adds that they sometimes get letters from children enamoured with his "hard-right stance", so they introduced a democratic movement as a counterpoint.
(10) I was doing an interview for one of those pop keyboard magazines, and the guy said to me ‘What do you think of The Orb?’ And I said ‘What’s The Orb?’ And he said ‘You don’t know?’ And I said ‘No I don’t know,’ and he said ‘You should know,’ and he handed me the CD and I took it home there was Electric Counterpoint.
(11) That’s a skill.” Jakielka said Hodgson’s approach was a refreshing counterpoint to the authoritarian Capello but conceded England would have to deliver in France to keep him in his job.
(12) Rubio himself referred to two such examples – China and Vietnam – in a Wednesday op-ed in the New York Times , but to make a counterpoint: that despite the opening up of economic pathways, both China and Vietnam remain notorious violators of basic human rights.
(13) In his vast orchestral canvas St Thomas Wake (1968) his target is the foxtrot, which appears grotesquely parodied alongside plainchant and counterpoint, ordered with the help of “magic squares” (assemblages of numbers whose rows and columns and long diagonals yield the same total).
(14) For Rubin, the Benghazi attack offers the perfect counterpoint to Chris Christie’s Bridgegate ; an opening born of human tragedy.
(15) Without getting the counterpoint, I was drawn more and more to the conservative side.
(16) For the quarter, Counterpoint's data suggests that Nokia sold fewer than 1.5m phones in the US.
(17) The marriage between the parents is just one union serving as a counterpoint to the love match that all the daughters so ardently, subversively desire.
(18) Curriculum vitae Age 59 Education Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (history); University College, Oxford (PPE) Career 1970 writer, Rolling Stone magazine 1973 presenter, Radio 1 1974 presenter, Radio 4 arts show Kaleidoscope 1983 founder member, TV-am 1992 launch team, Classic FM 1995 Radio 3 1996 Radio Academy's Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio award 1998 presenter, Classic FM 2005 inducted into Radio Academy Hall of Fame 2008 host, Counterpoint music quiz, Radio 4
(19) Worse still, it concluded, if Europe failed to surmount its economic crisis the prize would be a “risible memory, or worse, an epitaph for what Europe could have been, should have been.” 11.33am BST Aid donations My colleague Mark Tran, the Guardian's Global Development correspondent, has sent this as a counterpoint to the detractors: Something positive to say about the EU.
(20) The chancellor, George Osborne, coined the phrase two years ago, saying he wanted to join together the cities of the north as a counterpoint to the dominance of London and south-east England.