respond : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: respond	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for respond
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
respond v show a response or a reaction to something [syn: react, respond] react verbally; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation" Synonym(s): answer, reply, respond respond favorably or as hoped; "The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Respond \Respond"\, v. t. 1. To answer; to reply. 2. To suit or accord with; to correspond to. [R.] For his great deeds respond* his speeches great. --Fairfax.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Respond \Re*spond"\, n. 1. An answer; a response. [R.] 2. (Eccl.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter. 3. (Arch.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch. --Oxf. Gloss.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Respond \Respond"\ (r?sp?nd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Responded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Responding}.] [OF. respondre, F. r[82]pondre, fr. L. respondere, responsum; pref. re- re- + spondere to promise. See {Sponsor}.] 1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. 2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. --Buckminster. To every theme responds thy various lay. --Broome. 3. To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. [U.S.] Syn: To answer; reply; rejoin. See {Reply}.