Look up: Answer

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   [n] - the speech act of replying to a question 2. [n] - a statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation 3. [n] - the principle pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff`s complaint 4. [n] - a nonverbal reaction 5. [v] - be liable or accountable 6. [v] - match or correspond 7. [v] - be satisfactory for 8. [v] - reply or respond to 9. [v] - give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) 10. [v] - respond to a signal 11. [v] - react to a stimulus or command 12. [v] - give the correct answer or solution to 13. [v] - understand the meaning of
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   narrative response to a query or a request for cancellation Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a transmission from the receiving business machine in response to a request from the transmitting machine,e.g.the business machine acknowledges that it is ready to accept or had received data Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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   Definition (keystage 2) The thing that we are asked to find out, in a simple mathematical problem. For instance the number that we get at the end of a calculation.
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   An'swer transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Answered ; present participle & verbal noun Answering .] [ Middle English andswerien , Anglo-Saxon andswerian , andswarian , to answer, from andswaru , noun , answer. See Answer , noun ] 1. To speak in defense ag ...
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   An'swer intransitive verb 1. To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. « There was no voice, nor any that answered . 1 Kings xviii. 26. » 2. To make a satisfactory response or return. Hence: To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his e ...
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   An'swer noun [ Middle English andsware , Anglo-Saxon andswaru ; and against + swerian to swear. ..., .... See Anti- , and Swear , and confer 1st un- .] 1. A reply to a change; a defense. « At my first answer no man stood with me. 2 Tim. iv. 16. » 2. Something said or written in reply to a question, a c ...
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   1. To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. 'There was no voice, nor any that answered.' (1 Kings xviii. 26) ... 2. To make a satisfactory response or return. Hence: To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money int ...
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   noun the speech act of replying to a question
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   noun a nonverbal reaction; `his answer to any problem was to get drunk`; `their answer was to sue me`
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    reply verb reply or respond to; `She didn`t want to answer`; `answer the question`; `We answered that we would accept the invitation`
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    verb give the correct answer or solution to; `answer a question`; `answer the riddle`
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    verb be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of; `This may answer her needs`
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    verb match or correspond; `The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave`
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    An `answer` (derived from `and`, against, and the same root as `swear`) was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to some one or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defence, a reply to a question or objection, or a correct solution of a problem. In the common law, an `answer` is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or crim...
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    • (n.) To be or act in return or response to. • (v. i.) To be opposite, or to act in opposition. • (n.) Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. • (v. i.) To make a satisfactory response or return. • (v. i.) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or suff...
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    (from the article `applied logic`) ...or even context, rather than upon overt form: at bottom, questions represent a functional rather than a purely grammatical category. The very ...
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    (from the article `fugue`) ...of the subject is in one voice alone. While this voice continues, the second statement enters, transposed to the key of the dominant (the fifth ...
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    A respondent's written reply to a claim. (See arbitration, claim)
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