Definition of answer

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Answer (v. i.) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils..

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Amoebean :: Amoebean (a.) Alternately answering.
Responsory :: Responsory (a.) Containing or making answer; answering.
Answer :: Answer (v. i.) To be or act in return.
Verbal :: Verbal (a.) Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation..
Praenomen :: Praenomen (n.) The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc..
Respondent :: Respondent (a.) Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
Floorer :: Floorer (n.) Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities..
Unanswered :: Unanswered (a.) Not responded to in kind; unrequited; as, unanswered affection..
Guarantee :: Guarantee (n.) In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty..
Answerless :: Answerless (a.) Having no answer, or impossible to be answered..
Reply :: Reply (v. t.) To return for an answer.
Catechise :: Catechise (v. t.) To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith..
Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song..
Answer :: Answer (n.) A reply to a change; a defense.
Respond :: Respond (v. i.) To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument..
Petitionee :: Petitionee (n.) A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition..
Cipher :: Cipher (v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer..
Categorical :: Categorical (a.) Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer..
Dubious :: Dubious (a.) Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer..
Stretto :: Stretto (n.) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.
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