(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.
Responsion
Definition:
(n.) The act of answering.
(n.) The first university examination; -- called also little go. See under Little, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
(2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(3) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(4) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(6) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(7) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(8) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
(9) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
(10) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
(11) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(12) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(13) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(14) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
(15) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(16) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(17) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(18) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(19) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(20) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.