Definition of respond

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Respond (v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages..

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Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant..
Ablaut :: Ablaut (n.) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung..
Assonance :: Assonance (n.) Incomplete correspondence.
Pleurapophysis :: Pleurapophysis (n.) One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib..
Correspondingly :: Correspondingly (adv.) In a corresponding manner; conformably.
Incorrespondence :: Incorrespondence (n.) Alt. of Incorrespondenc.
Seignior :: Seignior (n.) A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English..
Sincere :: Sincere (superl.) Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness..
Earl :: Earl (n.) A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count..
Archimandrite :: Archimandrite (n.) A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church..
Landgrave :: Landgrave (n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.
Involution :: Involution (n.) The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a', b.b', c.c', so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa' = Ob.Ob' = Oc.Oc' is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution..
Deme :: Deme (n.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township..
Consign :: Consign (v. t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods..
Tally :: Tally (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit..
Respondentia :: Respondentia (n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself..
Trimorphism :: Trimorphism (n.) The coexistence among individuals of the same species of three distinct forms, not connected, as a rule, by intermediate gradations; the condition among individuals of the same species of having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; -- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism..
Accord :: Accord (v. i.) To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks..
Medius :: Medius (n.) The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it..
Respondence :: Respondence (n.) Alt. of Respondenc.
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