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Response

noun

A result.

A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent. Synonym: reaction. "His responses have slowed with age"

A statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation. Synonyms: answer, reply. "He wrote replies to several of his critics"

The manner in which something is greeted. Synonym: reception.

A phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister.

The speech act of continuing a conversational exchange. Synonym: reply.

The manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals.

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"Response" Quotes from Famous Books

... as some days later he entered his parlor in response to the announcement of a visitor, were indicative of hearty ...

— Old Creole Days • George Washington Cable

... according to the style of the day, she threw the shawl about her shoulders, and knocked at the door of her Uncle Jahleel's study, which also opened into the living-room, and was the apartment in which he held court, when acting as magistrate. In response to the knock the Squire opened the door. He looked as if he had had a fit of sickness, so deeply had the marks of chagrin and despite impressed itself on his face in the past ...

— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy

... people were about the house all the day. By noon two well-defined groups of chanting old women had formed — one sitting in the house and the other in front of it. Wordless, melancholy chants were sung in response between the groups. The spaces surrounding the house became almost packed — so much so that a dog succeeded in getting into the doorway, and the threatenings and maledictions that drove it away were the loudest, ...

— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks

... pulse quickened at the recollection of those maladroit, hungry kisses. Something—a mere glancing streak of the great shaft of ecstasy which enveloped Jack Tosswill's whole being had touched her senses into what had seemed to him marvellous response. ...

— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

... the cause which the French were upholding, and distrust of the intentions of the King of Sardinia and Count Cavour. Sir James Hudson described the unanimous feeling at Turin that the Nationalist cause had been betrayed. Cavour, he wrote, could obtain no further response to his remonstrances with Napoleon than "Il fait bien chaud: il fait bien chaud." Moreover, Napoleon knew (continued Sir James) "that Mazzini had dogged his footsteps to Milan, for, the day before yesterday, sixty-six ...

— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861 • Queen of Great Britain Victoria

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