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verb (used without object)

to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.

to make a return by some action as if in answer: to respond generously to a charity drive.

to react favorably.

Physiology. to exhibit some action or effect as if in answer; react: Nerves respond to a stimulus.

to correspond (usually followed by to).

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Bridge. to make a response.

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verb (used with object)

to say in answer; reply.

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noun

Architecture. a half pier, pilaster, or the like projecting from a wall as a support for a lintel or an arch, the other side of which is supported on a free-standing pier or column.

Ecclesiastical.

a short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.

responsory.

response.

Origin:
1350–1400; (noun) Middle English: responsory < Old French, derivative of respondre to respond < Latin respondēre to promise in return, reply, answer, equivalent to re- re- + spondēre to pledge, promise (see sponsor); (v.) < Latin respondēre

Related forms

o·ver·re·spond, verb

un·re·spond·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. rejoin. 2. rise, react, reply.

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If students say they wanted to respond with kindness but in the end did not, ask what stopped them.

In comments below, please tell us about ways that you respond to student writing in a digital/audio way.

Wherever one person may post words which more than one other may read and respond to, a world is born.

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If students say they wanted to respond with kindness but in the end did not, ask what stopped them.

In comments below, please tell us about ways that you respond to student writing in a digital/audio way.

Wherever one person may post words which more than one other may read and respond to, a world is born.

Dogs respond well when they are trained to help people with disabilities.

He strives to understand how cells respond to infection to learn how to better fight disease.

The male screams a warning to the other bonobos, and they respond with shrill cries.

Plants respond to heavy pruning but rarely need more than the occasional snip to correct their shape.

They respond to their close neighbors without considering the movements of the group.

The president also plans to create protocols to detail how the campuses should respond to the ongoing protest.

Moreover, an apparently naïve query may be a test of how well you can respond to uninformed students.

Consumers respond to that undervaluation, as they must.

When asked the meaning of being human, they respond with ten thousand different voices.

Clouds will respond to climate change in ways that further heat the planet, a new study suggests.

Both canid species will respond to imitation calls from humans.

Does not respond well to heavy pruning add to my plant list.

It would help me to respond if you were more specific.

But there may be other times when you need to relax, give the committee the benefit of the doubt, and try to respond creatively.

Central banks should be ready to respond if growth falls.

It favors eating caterpillars and seems to respond well to outbreaks of tent caterpillars.

Italian researchers determine how juvenile and adult brains respond to environmental change.

There are a lot of people that are part of the same ethnic group that barely respond to this division.

They need well-drained soil, and respond well to regular fertilizing.

They claimed that he didn't respond to orders to stay back, opening fire out of fear he was a suicide bomber.

Drago would not respond to questions about the charges.

Participants were also asked to respond to a series of statements intended to get a sense of their individual psychologies.

How they did it would determine how you would respond.

They were led into a topological trap and were not able to respond.

When the perfect conditions occur, you'll be able to respond quickly.

Most respond to the existing light field and decay back to their original ground state.

Here was someone who knew when not to respond or make a fuss.

But it has also led to rising inequality in the rich countries, and they may now well respond by raising protectionist barriers.

The neurons do not respond to time or intensity alone, but to particular combinations of them.

The marine knows when he is being"loud and clear" and is expecting you to respond accordingly.

The queens who are still in queen cells will respond with short buzzing called quacking.

Sometimes, students don't respond when a college reaches out to them–and then apply anyway.

She is attempting to train several tame elephants to respond to such signals by shutting them inside a gently vibrating truck.

We respond daily to situations that call upon our use of mental maps.

Faculty should be trained to teach students with differing needs and to recognize and respond to troubled students.

If the twitch-and-flee behaviors were learned, she figured lizard young would not respond at fire-ant-free sites.

When officers respond to a domestic dispute, they are greeted by a gun-wielding homeowner.

For the first time, birds have been shown to distinguish among and respond to monkeys' alarm calls.

Hollander and colleagues next plan to test how larval fish and tiny animals called zooplankton respond to the samples.

Kennedy wanted to fire his torpedoes, but he and the crew couldn't get the boat to respond quickly enough.

Scientists typically respond and react after viruses have already spread.

Sensors picking up gunfire at a gas station allowed officers to respond quickly and help victims right away.

The trick for publishers and librarians is how to respond to those changes.

But it would still be for the latter to respond appropriately to the challenge if they are to survive.

Researchers claim that people with names at the end of the alphabet respond more quickly to purchasing opportunities.

But it's unclear how honestly the administration would respond if the necessary signatures are gathered.

Readers respond an article about a program that allowed teens a chance to create their own curriculum.

So, too, does research on how organisms respond to lower.

Among larger animals there is a trade-off between the speed with which an animal can respond and their sensitivity to.

Several biotech companies contacted for this story did not respond to requests for comment.

It may amount to neglect: an adviser failing to respond to.

Poor management and lack of resources meant possibly waiting hours for police to respond to calls.

Knowing how to respond can mean the difference between life and death.

Dogs and horses can learn to respond to vocal commands, and some apes can be taught a primitive sign language.

Apple did not immediately respond to my e-mail requesting comment on the e-mail exchange.

The report warns that research universities should respond.

China's desire to ensure the games are not marred by calls for boycotts is tying its hands as it considers how to respond.

Mencken offers a lesson on how to respond to outrageous pseudoscientific claims.

The researchers hope their work will help faculty members and counseling centers effectively respond to students' self-defeating.

As our report makes clear, governments had good reason to respond.

Paleontologists respond to dozens of similar queries each year.

It's range of motion and ability to respond to human interaction made it a favorite among robot and toy enthusiasts.

Well, the other thing is simply that some people don't respond to e-mail regularly.

Their hope was that, overwhelmed with pyruvate, the mitochondria would be forced to respond.

They also describe other behaviors in which spiders perceive and respond to information in their environment.

Dendritic cells catch invaders and tell the immune system when and how to respond.

For users who repeatedly fail to respond to alerts, the alerts will inform them of.

Many people are more likely to respond to things if they actually know you.

It suggests an executive committee with the power to reshape the panel's plans and respond to criticism.

Experiments have demonstrated that some spiders can recognize and respond to specific shapes on television monitors.

UK researchers find that taste buds respond differently to depression therapies that target serotonin and noradrenaline.

Touch screens respond to the ceaseless caress of our fingers.

Genetic tests can predict how well someone will respond to a medication and diagnose inherited diseases.

He did not respond to the programme-makers' request for an interview.

Everyone does it because babies respond to it, and scientists believe the practice has a useful biological origin.

Getting a bigger chill out of polymers that respond to electric fields.

Please respond if anyone knows anything about this.

The company did not respond to questions when contacted for this story.

Some of them refused to submit policies for the ranking or did not respond to repeated requests for their policies.

Although her language skills are not ideal, she can recognise speech and respond clearly.

Work with your parents to plan how your family could respond to a natural disaster.

Prairie voles in monogamous relationships respond less to drugs.

Second is to win this global war on terror, and to respond to all this irregular warfare.

Yet recent economic troubles have complicated colleges' ability to respond.

In other economies, the central bank would respond by raising interest rates.

It is changing how neighborhoods and nations alike respond to disease.

In particular, they help muscle cells respond to insulin.

Instead, the hexes themselves will be screens and computers, able to respond to movement and position and taps.

The technique works because minerals respond differently to microwaves.

The youngsters respond by orienting themselves toward her and more actively waving their whips.

Because patients with a particular genetic variant might not respond well to that drug.

Calmly respond to your significant other in measured tones.

Politicians respond to political needs, businessmen respond to business or economical needs.

The virus contained genes for red pigment in cone cells-cells in the eye that respond to light and color.

In the series of clips below, the beetles respond to commands to start up and turn left or right.

It has voice command control and can respond to key phrases via sound sensors.

The computation involved must be done fast, since the mirror has to respond much more quickly than the blink of an eye.

Scientists thought ice sheets and glaciers would respond to warming slowly over hundreds of years.

In fact, if it did respond to light, galaxies would not even exist:.

Facebook did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

Volunteers may have been asked to move dots on a computer screen or respond to single-object pictures.

Foundation officials did not respond to interview requests.

Invited respondents will have two days to respond to each poll.

Nashli did not respond to interview requests by press time.

Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions.

For a year, banks struggled to respond to investor demands for larger capital cushions.

The webmaster did not respond to inquiries regarding his actions.

Britain's transport minister wants fines to be imposed on airports that were unprepared to respond adequately to the snow.

Both the malaria parasite and the mosquitoes which spread it respond to temperature and moisture.

It remains unclear how managers will respond to losing a vote on executive pay, as these votes are not binding.

But private equity itself is having to respond to public pressure by agreeing to voluntary codes of transparency.

Students may respond that it would be more expensive or dangerous to send a person.

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World English Dictionary

respond (rɪˈspɒnd)

—vb (foll by to)
1.	to state or utter (something) in reply
2.	(intr) to act in reply; react: to respond by issuing an invitation
3.	to react favourably: this patient will respond to treatment
4.	an archaic word for correspond

—n
5.	architect a pilaster or an engaged column that supports an arch or a lintel
6.	Christianity a choral anthem chanted in response to a lesson read at a church service

[C14: from Old French respondre, from Latin rēspondēre to return like for like, from re- + spondēre to pledge; see spouse, sponsor]

re'spondence

—n

re'spondency

—n

re'sponder

—n

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Word Origin & History

respond

c.1300, respound, from O.Fr. respondere "respond, correspond," from L. respondere "respond, answer to, promise in return," from re- "back" + spondere "to pledge" (see spondee). Modern spelling and pronunciation is from c.1600.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

respond

plainchant melody and text originally sung responsorially-i.e., by alternating choir and soloist or soloists. Responsorial singing of the psalms was adopted into early Christian worship from Jewish liturgical practice. Most frequently the congregation sang a short refrain, such as Amen or Alleluia, between psalm verses sung by a cantor. As medieval plainchant developed, more elaborate refrains (R) were sung by a choir alternating with soloists singing psalm verses (V), producing a musical form R V1 R V2R. The responsory, or refrain, was frequently abbreviated on its repetition. Its text usually related to the meaning of the feast day or the content of the psalm. Only a few such chants survive in this long form, which is now normally curtailed.

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