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A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
(ux)
A solution to a problem.
(uxi)
Someone or something that fills a similar role or position.
(quote-journal)
A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
To make a reply or response to.
(RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis)
(RQ:KJV) there was no voice, nor any that answered.
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)
To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
(co)
To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
(RQ:Austen Emma)
(quote-book)
(quote-text)|title=On Early English Pronunciation|location=London|publisher=Trübner & Co.|section=Part III, Chapter 7, section 1, p. 656, footnote 1|url=https://archive.org/details/onearlyenglishpr03elliuoft
(quote-text)|title=The Way of All Flesh|chapter=41|passage=Theobald spoke as if watches had half-a-dozen purposes besides time-keeping, but he could hardly open his mouth without using one or other of his tags, and "answering every purpose" was one of them.
To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
(syn)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
To file a document in response to a complaint.
To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
1775, (w), ''(w)'', Dublin: G. Burnet ''et al.'', 1794, Act II, Scene 2, p. 25,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004835563.0001.000
- Egad, I wish she had answer’d her picture as well.
(quote-text)|title=The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies|location=Dublin|publisher=Luke White|section=Volume II, Book V, Chapter 2, p. 231|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100268998
To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
(quote-text)|title=Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772: on several parts of England; particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland|location=London|publisher=R. Blamire|section=Volume II, Section 19, p. 85|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004863362.0001.002
To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with ''to''.
(RQ:Shakespeare Measure) that the time may haue all ſhadow, and ſilence in it: and the place anſwere to conuenience
(RQ:Shakespeare Pericles)
(RQ:KJV)
(RQ:Swift Gulliver's Travels) I might carry about me several Weapons, which must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the Bulk of so prodigious a Person.
To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
(RQ:KJV) no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
(RQ:Milton Samson)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1) this proud king (..) studies day and night / To answer all the debts he owes unto you
To render account to or for.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1) I will, by to-morrow dinner-time, / Send him to answer thee, or any man, / For any thing he shall be charged withal:
To atone for; to be punished for.
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar) The noble Brutus / Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: / If it were so, it was a grievous fault, / And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
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