react

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ækt

Verb

react (third-person singular simple present reacts, present participle reacting, simple past and past participle reacted)

1. To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.

   to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome

2. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
3. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Derived terms

• reactive
• reactor

Related terms

• interreact, interreaction

Translations

to act or perform a second time

to return an impulse or impression

• Spanish: reaccionar (es)

to act upon each other

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反應 (cmn), 反应 (cmn) (fǎnyìng)

• Dutch: reageren (nl)
• French: (chemistry) réagir (fr)
• German: reagieren (de)

• Irish: (chemistry) imoibrigh (ga)
• Japanese: 反応する (ja) (はんのうする, hannō suru)
• Maori: tauhohe (mi)
• Russian: реагировать (ru) (reagírovatʹ) impf., отреагировать (ru) (otreagírovatʹ) pf., среагировать (ru) (sreagírovatʹ) pf.
• Spanish: reaccionar (es)

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• Swedish: reagera (sv)

Anagrams

• caret, cater, crate, recta, trace