1) Act in return 2) Answer 3) Answer back 4) Architectural element 5) Call or write back 6) Come back 7) Come back with 8) Counter 9) Fill out a questionnaire 10) French word used in English 11) Give an answer 12) Move 13) Offer an answer 14) Plead in court 15) React 16) React verbally 17) Rejoin 18) Reply 1) Answer 2) Overreact 3) React 4) Reply 
A respond is a half-pier or half-pillar which is bonded into a wall and designed to carry the springer at one end of an arch. ...
• (n.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch. • (n.) An answer; a response. • (v. i.) To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. • (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter. • (v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answera...
to say something in return; make an answer; to show some reaction to a force or stimulus; to render satisfaction. 
Half-pier bonded into a wall to carry an arch.
Half-pier bonded into a wall to carry an arch.
To say something in return, make an answer, to show some reaction to a force or stimulus, to render satisfaction. ... Origin: L. Respondere = to answer, reply ... (18 Nov 1997) ... 
Re·spond' intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Responded ; present participle & verbal noun Responding .] [ Old French respondre , French répondre , from Latin respondere , responsum ; prefix ...Re·spond' noun 1. An answer; a response. [ R.] 2. (Eccl.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter. 3. (Architecture) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch. Oxf. Gloss. Re·spond' transitive verb 1. To answer; to reply. 2. To suit or accord with; to correspond to. [ R.] « For his great deeds respond his speeches great.» Fairfax. 
In architecture, a respond is a half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch etc. They
[v] - respond favorably or as hoped
Half-pier bonded into a wall and carrying one end of an arch.