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[ree-akt]

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verb (used with object)

to act or perform again.

Origin:
1650–60; re- + act

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Another imaging study showed a similar compensation effort might help older people react to social situations.

People react to designer labels as signals of underlying quality.

The researchers recorded the amount of time it took for the subjects to react to the various pictures.

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Another imaging study showed a similar compensation effort might help older people react to social situations.

People react to designer labels as signals of underlying quality.

The researchers recorded the amount of time it took for the subjects to react to the various pictures.

Some people react to stress by reaching for a few too many drinks.

That's because, he says, it may help us understand how reefs around the world will react to an acidifying ocean.

It's all part of real world research on how people react to.

Put the frog in cool water and slowly raise the temperature-it won't react to change and will be cooked to death.

People don't react well to stress and sometimes they lose control.

The louder the call, the closer the danger-and the faster the meerkats react.

New motion-sensing technology lets trainees react more naturally to action, without the need for controllers or sensor tags.

Some react with horror, others wish for a gift shop.

But you never know how the justice system might react.

They probably wouldn't react well to a wholesale change of direction.

These react with nearby metal atoms and form tough, protective films a few molecules thick to ameliorate the.

Sharks of different species react differently around each other and even react differently in different regions.

Romesberg, the son of a chemist, spent his days looking at how these chemicals react and the rate at which the reactions took.

The article barely touches on how humans would react given contact with other self-aware intelligent beings.

Their equipment was faulty when they attempted to react ethylene and benzaldehyde under high pressure.

But the teachers can change their teaching styles in order to react to different students.

Like all metals, these react with other elements by giving up electrons to form positively charged ions.

Even natural fragrances can react with ozone in the air to make toxins.

It may well be that our mirror neurons react only to actions that are part of our own motor repertoire.

It's the hardest known material, of course, and it doesn't react chemically with other substances.

They react to acceleration and spin at different velocities depending on the weight distribution of people in the car.

Then he picked up a small stick and put it in the water, seeing how it would react.

Helium is inert, which means it does not react with other substances.

Dog lovers know that man's best friend has an uncanny ability to understand and react to human actions.

And they suspect that gut enterotypes might affect how people react to different drugs and diets.

Nader's studies shows that rats didn't react after hearing a tone.

It's complex, and each action doesn't necessarily have a predetermined outcome, because the game can react randomly to what you.

Planning what you might do makes you much more likely to react wisely than with emotion.

Children with autism are easily overwhelmed by information and can react badly-even violently-to the wrong kind of stimulus.

Heavy bags slow you down and make you unable to react quickly.

Six weeks is often when the mother's body begins to physically react to the new addition, often with nausea or food cravings.

The real issue, however, may be as much about turf and how society will react to this new technology as patient safety.

Nor do they react to the distress shown by other people.

How governments react will shape labour markets for years to come.

But he warned that the body may react differently to nanoparticles than to conventional ingredients.

Here the quanta is choice in/of a human mind and how those humans around him react to bifurcate reality.

It is a reactive one, and hopefully it will react to this powerful testimony".

These however tend to react somewhat more negatively when you tie them to a pole when going off on a holiday.

If the past is any guide, the art market will react with a delay to declining stockmarkets and economies.

Those initial speculations were confirmed by applying antibodies to the tissue that are known to react with proteins.

The same detector would react identically to a stationary edge that increased its brightness without having moved.

Relatively little is known about how social animals react to the decline and death of other individuals in their group.

Now that he's on medication and knows how to react when he feels one coming on, a minor seizure is no longer a big deal to him.

It is an appropriate interest for someone whose job it is to predict and react to the market's mercurial movements.

But the chimps sometimes flip through the glossy pages, and react to certain pictures.

They react more readily with their surroundings, which makes them dissolvable in paint.

EA says this will ensure that characters' bodies react more realistically after.

What parents and students react to is tuition, and this plan would be a way to prevent or limit an increase.

The audience had not yet heard the news and the police were worried about how they might react to being told by a white man.

These chemical gases react with water, oxygen, and other substances to form mild solutions of sulfuric and nitric acid.

Previous research had shown that some polymers react to light by changing their configuration.

It will intimidate umpires, who will react by squeezing the pitcher to the point where everything is down the middle.

But his response made me wonder how players would react to my queries and presence.

And much depends on how countries react to the erosion of traditional families.

Migration models have been created using information about how birds react to various weather conditions.

Oh, sorry, forgot: alcohol can react badly with many medications.

The lenses themselves react to light and get darker the brighter it is.

Never mind the fact that a sales rep will react to this system in exactly the same manner as a direct commission pay plan.

When someone had been exposed to valeric acid, for example, he tended to react negatively to a face.

They react to different wavelengths of light, or colors, and allow humans to detect them.

Even infants react to upbeat music by moving their arms and legs rhythmically.

The substance can react explosively with string oxidising materials and silver compounds.

But whether students react this way or can get past it probably depends on your students.

Sadly, too, it is also entirely normal that the outside world is at a loss about how to react.

We go with him in his jeep, camera primed and ready to react.

Genocide used to be fairly common but now people react rather poorly to.

The paper acts as a scaffold, and the carbon nanotubes act as electrodes that electrolytes in solution react with.

At any one time, however, only some individuals know about-and can thus react to-food and threats.

Companies have to be proactive while politicians do not because governments will react or follow.

Someone in the above posts mentioned that our bodies react differently to stress.

The ruptured riboflavin can react with isohumulones, chemicals that come from hops and help beer taste bitter.

Partly because the government has been so slow to react.

For scientists, a challenge is to gauge how the microscopic soil creatures will react to warmer global temperatures.

Quotas on the fishermen remain the chief mechanism to react to dwindling stocks.

The questions are hypothetical, and people may react differently when and if pay walls actually go up.

Astronauts will also conduct experiments to learn how materials and living things react to long periods in microgravity.

Even toddlers react positively to members of their own race, but often distrust those from different groups.

It tells of a recent experiment that showed how sniffer dogs react to the signals their handlers unintentionally give.

Scientists typically respond and react after viruses have already spread.

Two organic compounds that ordinarily would not readily react with other easily both bond to an atom of palladium.

The permanence of its inks relies in part on dyes that react with the surface of the paper's cellulose fibres.

Explain to students that some animals react to the amount of sunlight in the day.

The protons then react with oxygen to generate electrical current.

Whether disaster strikes depends on what exactly is driving the dollar down and on how policymakers react.

Others react to the changing temperature or precipitation of the shifting seasons.

Generally he does not react strangely to any other sounds.

Advertising firms already film how people react to ads, usually in an artificial setting.

Survival still goes back to some pretty basic skills and some basic thoughts in terms of how to react.

Science has proven that these cells react to thier environment and feel pain.

These react to form helium, yet more neutrons and a whole lot more energy.

It has a unique ability to react when it is startled.

Actually, it's probably an indication that the brain itself is impaired, rather than the ability to react to emotional stimuli.

Mexicans have lost their capacity to react to scandal.

When you see swimmers in the ocean together, you see them react intuitively to the tide's push and pull.

Because different regions of the flare can react to each other only at the speed of.

Crucially, the overall size of the fiscal multiplier also depends on how people react to higher government borrowing.

In a multistep process coal would react with oxygen and steam to make pure hydrogen, plus a stream of waste gases.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object)

to act in response to an agent or influence: How did the audience react to the speech?

to act reciprocally upon each other, as two things.

to act in a reverse direction or manner, especially so as to return to a prior condition.

to act in opposition, as against some force.

to respond to a stimulus in a particular manner: reacting to a shock by jumping; to react to the word “coward” with anger.

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to undergo a chemical reaction.

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Origin:
1635–45; re- + act, probably modeled on Medieval Latin reagere

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World English Dictionary

react (rɪˈækt)

—vb (foll by against)
1.	(intr; foll by to, upon etc) (of a person or thing) to act in response to another person, a stimulus, etc, or (of two people or things) to act together in a certain way
2.	to act in an opposing or contrary manner
3.	(intr) physics to exert an equal force in the opposite direction to an acting force
4.	chem to undergo or cause to undergo a chemical reaction

[C17: from Late Latin reagere, from re- + Latin agere to drive, do]

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react re·act (rē-ākt')
v. re·act·ed, re·act·ing, re·acts

To act in response to a stimulus.
To undergo a chemical reaction.

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