respond

Borrowed from Old French respondre (Modern répondre), from Latin respondeō.

• Rhymes: -ɒnd

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈspɒnd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈspɑnd/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈspɒnd/, /ˈɹiːˌspɒnd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈspɑnd/

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respond (third-person singular simple present responds, present participle responding, simple past and past participle responded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.

   to respond to a question or an argument

2. (intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response
   • 2012 January 1, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 31:

     As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
   • Fairfax

     For his great deeds respond his speeches great.

4. (transitive) To satisfy; to answer.

   The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.

• responder
• responsive

respond (plural responds)

1. A response.
2. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
3. (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

• response
• responsible
• responsibleness
• responsibly
• responsibility
• responsive
• responsively
• responsiveness

• react

• respond in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• respond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Ponders, ponders