(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.
Riposte
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But a better riposte is to turn to Europe and see why democracy and human rights might need promoting.
(2) We must build up, not out,” was Soleri’s riposte.
(3) Arsenal had no riposte to the blue and white striped waves that tormented them all evening.
(4) While the strategic review offers a riposte to criticisms that the corporation has got too vast, Hunt and Bradshaw have, almost unnoticed, both moderated their criticisms in recent months.
(5) And yet Scotland should have offered an instant riposte.
(6) Yet it still felt vaguely surprising when Yaya Touré shrugged himself from his own fitful display – occasionally at his brutish best, just as often rather sluggish, and nothing like the player who rampaged in this arena as City all but claimed the title last April – to fizz in a riposte 12 minutes from time, but there was to be no relief at the end.
(7) Lambert's winner actually capped an England comeback, the hosts having twice trailed to goals from James Morrison, a former England Under-20s international, and Kenny Miller, with ripostes mustered by Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck.
(8) When she heard Poor Boy from her son's 1970 album Bryter Layter, she set about issuing a dry riposte in the form of her own Poor Mum.
(9) The Tories' most effective riposte to this damaging charge yesterday was to point to Labour's indulgence of its own wealthy donors – one of whom, Swraj Paul, is a non-dom who has long sat in the Lords, and another of whom, David Sainsbury, made super-sized payments before being appointed to ministerial office.
(10) But the paper delayed publication for a day, ran Miliband's riposte, but also republished the original offending article alongside an editorial refusing to apologise.
(11) Though opposed by the conservative Popular party, Zapatero passed a Law of Historical Memory – a kind of legislative riposte to the pacto de olvido .
(12) But it is understood that he has been preparing a detailed riposte to the allegations – including claims that he gave his athlete Galen Rupp, who finished second to Farah in the 10,000m at the London 2012 Olympics, the anabolic steroid testosterone when he was still at high school.
(13) There had been tangible energy and drive from the QPR players from the outset, but as the clock ticked on, and they failed to convert their chances, self-doubt began to creep in, accompanied by loud choruses of "Stand up if you've won a game" from the away fans, to which there was no riposte.
(14) Johnson's riposte has been to start a rerun of the whole process , scheduling it to end handily close to an expected change of government and surely heartened by shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's indication that he, unlike Bradshaw, wouldn't prevent Johnson from getting his way.
(15) Sarwar denied that the paper, which follows the release last Tuesday of Labour's plans to devolve greater control over income tax and control housing benefit, was a riposte to the Scottish government's independence white paper.
(16) Frank Lampard had spoken of the game passing in "all a bit of a daze", with team-mates left to pick over the drama to recreate the timeline: conceding to Sergio Busquets; losing John Terry to a red card; falling further behind to Andrés Iniesta; Ramires's glorious riposte; Lionel Messi's penalty miss; the quivering of the woodwork as they heaved to contain the holders; the desperate rearguard action before Fernando Torres, the £50m goalscorer with so few goals to his name, sprinted alone into Barça territory and equalised in stoppage time.
(17) BA has also ordered the same number of A350s, widely seen as Airbus's riposte to the Dreamliner.
(18) The second was delivered by way of riposte four days later, by Sir Michael Wilshaw , himself a lauded ex-headteacher who had turned the ghost of "the worst school in Britain" into an academic powerhouse, and been rewarded with the title of Her Majesty's chief inspector of schools and the keys to Ofsted.
(19) There are others: a swish terminal at London St Pancras; regular two-hour trips to Brussels and Paris on Eurostar; faster commuter times for people in Kent; and a riposte to those who say our railways are stuck in the Victorian era.
(20) And this week comes Bridesmaids , the so-called women's riposte to The Hangover.