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Respond   /rɪspˈɑnd/  /rispˈɑnd/   Listen
verb
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."


Respond  v. i.  (past & past part. responded; pres. part. responding)  
1.
To say something 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." "To every theme responds thy various lay."
3.
To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. (U.S.)
Synonyms: To answer; reply; rejoin. See Reply.


noun
Respond  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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Respond" Quotes from Famous Books



... mid-brain without the check-rein of a reflective intellect, and the man will be senselessly hilarious or quarrelsome, jolly or dejected, pugnacious or tearful, and would be ordinarily described as "drunk." If in spite of this he keeps on drinking, the mid-brain soon becomes deadened and ceases to respond, and the cerebellum, the organ of equilibrium, also becomes paralyzed. All voluntary bodily activities must then cease, and he rolls under the table, helpless and "dead" drunk, or in language that is even more graphically ...
— Psychology and Achievement • Warren Hilton
... at Cromer. An interview with Mrs. Browning or George Eliot would have probably driven him stark staring mad. Another stumbling block to the critics of 1851 was the peculiar dryness, if we may so describe it, of Borrow's style. He could respond to the thrill of natural beauty. He could enjoy and find utterance for his mood when it came upon him, just as he could enjoy a tankard of old ale or linger to gaze upon a sympathetic face; but he refused to pamper such feelings, still more to ...
— George Borrow - Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 • Thomas Seccombe
... and thousands of women were now organising relief work for the troops already in the field, Ailsa Paige had been among the earliest to respond to the call for a meeting at the Church of the Puritans. Here she had left her name for enrolment ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers
... hope he may do it soon—to-morrow, perhaps. I wonder if he knows the Schubert "Fruehlingstraum"—how I should love to hear it! As for your interesting plan for relieving the passing hours, I should hardly be human if I did not respond to it! Only please never write when you don't feel quite ...
— Red Pepper's Patients - With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular • Grace S. Richmond
... an easy-chair. Maraton, however, did not at once respond to his gesture of invitation. He was standing, tense and silent, with head upraised, listening. From the street outside came a ...
— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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