What's the difference between answer and respond?

Answer


Definition:

  • (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.

Respond


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
  • (v. i.) To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
  • (v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.
  • (v. t.) To answer; to reply.
  • (v. t.) To suit or accord with; to correspond to.
  • (n.) An answer; a response.
  • (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
  • (n.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
  • (2) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (3) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (4) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
  • (5) In kidney, both age groups responded with an increase in activity.
  • (6) We have evaluated the life-span of B lymphocytes by measuring the functional reactivity of normal B cells upon transfer into xid mice, which do not respond to anti-mu, fluoresceinated-Ficoll (FL-Ficoll) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl aminoethylcarbamylmethyl Ficoll (TNP-Ficoll).
  • (7) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
  • (8) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
  • (9) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (10) The percentage of eggs clamped at values more negative than -65 mV, which responded at insemination by developing an If, decreased and dropped to 0 at -80 mV.
  • (11) The data indicate that adult neurons with an intrinsic ability to regenerate axons can respond to substances with neurotrophic or neurite-promoting activities in tissue cultures.
  • (12) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
  • (13) The effect upon ethanol responding was found not to resemble a pattern of extinction, but rather was best described as a general overall reduction in responding.
  • (14) However, in the 'responder' acromegalics, the infusion of DA, besides lowering baseline plasma GH, was capable of reducing the TRH-induced GH rise.
  • (15) The SNT and the I-ELISA indicated that the pigs responded to vaccination and challenge.
  • (16) Seven of 12 who received mannitol responded with a diuresis.
  • (17) The bovine PLC responded differently to E coli, than to the 3 P haemolytica isolates in each of the 3 experimental test systems; however, responses to each of the P haemolytica isolates were not found to be significantly different.
  • (18) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
  • (19) Most respondents (46, 95%) were satisfied with life in general.
  • (20) Mycobacterium kansasii infection responds well to therapy, whereas M avium-intracellulare infection is difficult to treat.