'Response' definitions:
Definition of 'response'
(from WordNet)
noun
A result; "this situation developed in response to events in Africa"
noun
A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age" [syn: reaction, response]
noun
A statement (either spoken or written) that is made to 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, response]
noun
The manner in which something is greeted; "she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors" [syn: reception, response]
noun
A phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister
noun
The speech act of continuing a conversational exchange; "he growled his reply" [syn: reply, response]
noun
The manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals
Definition of 'Response'
From: GCIDE
- Response \Re*sponse"\ (r?*sp?ns"), n. [OF. response, respons, F. r['e]ponse, from L. responsum, from respondere. See Respond.]
- 1. The act of responding. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An answer or reply. Specifically: (a) Reply to an objection in formal disputation. --I. Watts. (b) (Eccl.) The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service. (c) (R.C.Ch.) A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office. (d) (Mus.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below. --Busby. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'response'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acknowledgment,
- action and reaction,
- affect,
- affection,
- Agnus Dei,
- alleluia,
- anacrusis,
- answer,
- answering,
- anthem,
- antiphon,
- antiphonal chanting,
- antiphony,
- argument,
- automatic reaction,
- autonomic reaction,
- awareness,
- back answer,
- back talk,
- backchat,
- backlash,
- backwash,
- bass passage,
- Benedicite,
- 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,
- ESP,
- evasive reply,
- exception,
- exchange,
- experience,
- exposition,
- feedback,
- feeling,
- feeling tone,
- fellow feeling,
- figure,
- folderol,
- force,
- foreboding,
- Gloria,
- Gloria in Excelsis,
- Gloria Patri,
- 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,
- Introit,
- involvement,
- laud,
- linguistic intercourse,
- Magnificat,
- mantra,
- mark,
- measure,
- message,
- Miserere,
- motet,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- Nunc Dimittis,
- 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,
- Te Deum,
- telepathy,
- touch,
- traffic,
- Trisagion,
- truck,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- two-way communication,
- undercurrent,
- unthinking response,
- variation,
- Vedic hymn,
- verse,
- versicle,
- vibes,
- vibrations,
- witty reply,
- witty retort,
- yes-and-no answer
Words containing 'Response'
- Responsal,
- Responsibility,
- Responsible,
- Responsibleness,
- Responsibly,
- Responsion,
- Responsive,
- Responsively,
- Responsiveness,
- responsible for,
- Consultary response,
- anamnestic response,
- civic responsibility,
- conditional response,
- conditioned response,
- electrodermal response,
- frequency response,
- immune response,
- immunologic response,
- learned response,
- psychogalvanic response,
- reflex response,
- response time,
- sense of responsibility,
- startle response,
- conditioned avoidance response,
- conditioned emotional response,
- electrical skin response,
- galvanic skin response,
- humoral immune response,
- frequency-response characteristic,
- frequency-response curve,
- cell-mediated immune response