Dictionary Definition
response
Noun
1 a result; "this situation developed in response
to events in Africa"
2 a bodily process occurring due to the effect of
some foregoing stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine";
"his responses have slowed with age" [syn: reaction]
3 a statement (either spoken or written) that is
made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation;
"I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to
several of his critics" [syn: answer, reply]
4 the manner in which something is greeted; "she
did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors"
[syn: reception]
5 a phrase recited or sung by the congregation
following a versicle by the priest or minister
6 the speech act of continuing a conversational
exchange; "he growled his reply" [syn: reply]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- UK: /rɪˈspɒns/
Noun
- 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
- 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 ballIs like another, all in all."
- 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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
the act of responding or replying
- Dutch: antwoord
References
Extensive Definition
A response is the following:
- Often a response is the result of a stimulus.
- Usually a response is a reply to a query.
- In data transmission, a response is the content of the control field of a response frame advising the primary station concerning the processing by the secondary station of one or more command frames.
- In telecommunications, a response is the effect of a driving signal upon an active or passive device. An output resulting from an input.
- In liturgy, a response (symbol "R/" or "℟") is a line spoken or sung by a congregation or sung by a choir, answering a versicle.
- In emergency management, response is one of four phases in the emergency management cycle.
response in German: Response
response in Spanish: Respuesta
response in Japanese: レスポンス
response in Tamil: தூண்டற்பேறு
response in Chinese: 回應
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Agnus Dei, Benedicite, ESP, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in
Excelsis, Introit,
Magnificat, Miserere, Nunc Dimittis, Te
Deum, Trisagion, Vedic
hymn, acknowledgment, action
and reaction, affect,
affection, alleluia, anacrusis, answer, answering, anthem, antiphon, antiphonal chanting,
antiphony, argument, automatic reaction,
autonomic reaction, awareness, back answer, back
talk, backchat,
backlash, backwash, bass passage,
bounceback, bourdon, bridge, burden, cadence, canticle, caring, chant, chorale, chord, chorus, clout, coda, comeback, commerce, communication, communion, concern, congress, connection, consciousness, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, counterstatement,
dealing, dealings, defense, demurrer, denial, development, division, doxology, echo, effect, emotion, emotional charge,
emotional shade, empathy, evasive reply, exception, exchange, experience, exposition, feedback, feeling, feeling tone, fellow
feeling, figure, folderol, force, foreboding, gut reaction,
hallelujah, harmonic
close, heartthrob,
hosanna, hymn, hymn of praise, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, identification, impact, impress, impression, imprint, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication,
intercommunion,
intercourse,
interlude, intermezzo, interplay, introductory
phrase, involvement,
laud, linguistic
intercourse, mantra,
mark, measure, message, motet, movement, musical phrase,
musical sentence, objection, offertory, offertory sentence,
ornament, paean, part, passage, passion, pathos, percept, perception, period, phrase, plea, pleading, predictable response,
presentiment,
print, profound sense,
psalm, psalmody, reaction, ready reply, rebuttal, receipt, recoil, reflection, reflex, reflex action, refluence, reflux, refrain, refutation, rejoinder, relating, repartee, repercussion, replication, reply, report, repost, rescript, rescription, resolution, respond, respondence, response to
stimuli, responsion,
responsiveness,
responsory,
responsory report, retort, retroaction, return, reverberation, revulsion, riposte, rise, ritornello, section, sensation, sense, sense impression, sense
perception, sensory experience, sentiment, sharing, short answer, snappy
comeback, social intercourse, speaking, special demurrer,
special pleading, speech,
speech circuit, speech situation, stanza, statement, statement of
defense, strain,
sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, tailpiece, talking, telepathy, touch, traffic, truck, tutti, tutti passage, two-way
communication, undercurrent, unthinking
response, variation,
verse, versicle, vibes, vibrations, witty reply,
witty retort, yes-and-no answer