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Response

noun

A result.

A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent. Synonym: reaction. "His responses have slowed with age"

A statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation. Synonyms: answer, reply. "He wrote replies to several of his critics"

The manner in which something is greeted. Synonym: reception.

A phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister.

The speech act of continuing a conversational exchange. Synonym: reply.

The manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals.

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"Response" Quotes from Famous Books

... dinner, calling, as she always did, when Elnora was in the garden, but she got no response, and the girl did not come. A little after one o'clock ...

— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter

... few things which will do so much towards promoting the great object for which he lived and labored. The simple story of the every-day life of a good man, told as these stories are told, finds a response in the hearts of those most indifferent to the great concerns of virtue and religion; it reaches and touches what nothing else, not the eloquent preaching of an apostle, could reach ...

— Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People • Eliza Lee Follen

... response to a renewed demand for the Admiralty's account of the Battle of Jutland the PRIME MINISTER made the remarkable statement that it was very difficult to get "an official and impartial account," but ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 • Various

... and satisfactory response Mr. Emerson did not need to lay his plan before them in ...

— Ethel Morton at Rose House • Mabell S. C. Smith

... displays and obscurations of the light made by the other, and to imitate them as promptly as possible. Either man, therefore, on obscuring or showing his own light would see the distant glimmer do the same, and would be able to judge if there was any appreciable interval between his own action and the response of the distant light. The experiment was actually tried by the Florentine Academicians,[22] with the result that, as practice improved, the interval became shorter and shorter, so that there was no reason to suppose that there was any real ...

— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge

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