response
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French, ultimately from the Latin respōnsum, a nominal use of the neuter form of respōnsus, the perfect passive participle of respondeō, from re (“again”) + spondeō (“promise”).
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Noun [edit]
response (plural responses)
- An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
- The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
- An oracular answer.
- (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
- (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
- A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
- An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL
Quotations [edit]
- 1338, Robert Mannyng, Middle English Chronicle
- What was his respons written, I ne sauh no herd.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Two Voices
- Then did my response clearer fall:
"No compound of this earthly ball
Is like another, all in all."
- Then did my response clearer fall:
- 1874, James Sully, Sensation and Intuition, p. 17.
- There seems a vast psychological interval between an emotional response to the action of some grateful stimulus and the highly complex intellectual and emotional development implied in a distinct appreciation of objective beauty.
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Translations [edit]
an answer or reply
the act of responding or replying
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References [edit]
- response in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
