RETORT

Definition: RETORT

RETORT

Intransitive verb

1. To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.

Noun

1. To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.

2. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.

3. To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.

Transitive verb

1. A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.

2. The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RETORT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Retort \Re*tort"\, noun. [See Retort, transitive verb]. (references)

Chemistry

Metallurgy

Mining

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Answer

Verb: answer, respond, reply, rebut, retort, rejoin; give for answer, return for answer; acknowledge, echo.

Noun: answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee; rescript, rescription; antiphon, antiphony; acknowledgment; password; echo; counter statement.

Confutation

Noun: {ant } confutation, refutation; answer, complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution, invalidation; exposure, exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down argument, tu quoque argument; sockdolager.

Continuance in action

Crucible, alembic, caldron, retort.

Furnace

Noun: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat.

Receptacle

Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen.

Retaliation

Verb: retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo; Noun: give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores.

Give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous.

Noun: retaliation, reprisal, retort, payback; counter-stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project; retribution, lex talionis; reciprocation; (reciprocity).

Vaporization

Vaporizer, still, retort; fumigation, steaming; bay salt, chloride of sodium.

Wit

Retort; banter; (ridicule); ridentem dicere verum; joke at one's expense.

Banter, badinage, retort, repartee, smartness, ready wit, quid-pro-quo; ridicule.

Crosswords: RETORT

Swedish (flask, retort).

Oh, wow, that was a moderately clever retort. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne)

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References

• The World Market for Retort Carbon and Coke or Semi-Coke of Coal, Lignite, and Peat: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Hot-fill and retort packaging (reference)

• Making Charcoal: The Retort Method (reference)

• The alchemist's retort : poems (reference)

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Periodicals

• Transport Retort (reference)

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Det[roit] City Gas Co., [foundation for retort house]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Foundation for retort house, construction for Detroit City Gas Company. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crematory, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Retort. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

The effectiveness of the treatment in eliminating pathogens will be regulated as a food safety process, by either the USDA or the FDA, often in concert with State authorities, just as is the case now for milk pasteurization or retort canning. (references)

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Expressions using "RETORT": Gas retort ♦ happy retort ♦ intermittent retort setting ♦ retort carbon ♦ retort courteous ♦ retort that ♦ sharp retort ♦ Tubulated retort. Additional references.

Albanian

përgjigje (answer, comeback, rejoinder, replication, reply, respond, response, return), përgënjeshtroj (confute, disprove, knock out, refute), kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, combat, condemn, contest, contradict, controvert, counter, cross, demur, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, dispute, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, mind, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, recalcitrate, refuse, resist, set one's face against, stick to, stickle, Stonewall, take exception to), kundërshtim (censure, challenge, contradiction, contrast, demur, demurrer, deprecation, dispraise, exception, kick, objection, obtestation, opposition, protest, reaction, rebellion, rebuff, rebuttal, recalcitrance, return, set down, Stonewall, stonewalling), ia kthej (reciprocate, repay). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرن التقطير, ‏مقطرة معوجة, ‏رد حاسم, ‏رد بمثله, ‏رد بحسم (clench, return), ‏رد بحجة معاكسة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

реторта (cucurbit), репресивна мярка (reprisal, retaliation, retortion), остроумен отговор (repartee), отговарям (accord, account, answer, correspond, fit, fulfill, match, rejoin, replicate, reply, respond, vouch), отвръщам дръзко (answer back, sass, talk back), отмъщение (nemesis, retaliation, revenge, turnabout, vengeance, vindication), отплащам със същото (retaliate), отплата (meed, nemesis, payoff, quittance, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retaliation, return, reward, wage), дързък отговор (backchat, sass), дестилирам (distil, distillate, still). (various references)

Chinese 

反駁 , 反击 (Retorted). (various references)

Czech

oplatit stejným (retaliate), odveta (backlash, reprisal, retaliation, retortion, retribution, return, revenge, vengeance), odseknutí (quip, set down), odseknout (chop off, cut away, hack off, sever), odpovìï (answer, come back, rejoinder, reply, response). (various references)

Danish

retort (flask), kolbe (bulb, envelope, flask, shell, spadix, tank, tube), glaskolbe (bulb, envelope, flask, lamp). (various references)

Dutch

retort (converter), kolf (ear). (various references)

Farsi 

پس دادن (Excrete, Giveback, Refund, Repay, Restore), تلافی (Amends, Greet, Incidence, Repay, Reprisal, Restitution, Retribution), جواب متقابل دادن (Rebut), جواب متقابل , برگرداندن (Convert, Evoke, Rebut, Reflect, Refract, Regurgitate, Repay, Return, Reverse, Turquoise, Upset, Vomit). (various references)

Finnish

vastaus (answer, rejoinder, reply), letkaus (a dig, gibe). (various references)

French

cornue. (various references)

German

Retorte, Kolben (beak, bulb, butt, cob, conk, ear, flask, forcer, hooter, piston, pistons, prick, spadices, spadix, tool), erwidern (answer, pay back, reciprocate, rejoin, repay, reply, respond, return, to reply). (various references)

Greek 

ανταπαντώ (come back, rejoin, reply). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שיב כ�"לכ�", ל�"�'יב (answer, react, reply, respond), תשוב�" כ�"לכ�" (riposte), תשוב�" (answer, rejoinder, reply, response, return), ת�'וב�" (reaction, reflex, reply, response, retaliation), �"�'ב�" (reaction, response). (various references)

Hungarian

visszavágás (click of the tongue, come-back, recrimination, repartee, riposte, sally of wit), találó felelet (neat retort), retorta, lombik (alembic, flask). (various references)

Indonesian

tabung kimia (test tube), jawaban (answer, reply, response). (various references)

Italian

storta (sprain, twist). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

レスキュー隊 (label, ladies, ladies first, lady, Lady Borden, laisser-faire, lead, led, leg warmers, lesbian, lesser panda, lesson, letter, letter facsimile, letterhead, lettering, lettuce, medical practitioners' receipt for health insurance claim, medical prescription, ready-made, reception, red, red purge, red tape, Redmond, rescue squad, resolution, resonance, respirator, response, rest, rest house, rest room, restaurant, restaurant hotel, restaurant theater, retouch, rhetoric, sticker, tow truck, wrestling), 反問 (asking in return, cross-examination), 口�"�" (talking back), 口�"え　 (back talk), 口�"え (back talk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

レトルト , くち�"たえ (back talk), くちへ�"とう (talking back), は�"も�" (agony, asking in return, cross-examination, speckles, worry). (various references)

Korean 

� �� 르트. (various references)

Manx

freggyrt (acknowledgement, answer, come back; outcrop, correspond, react, reaction, rejoin, rejoinder, reply, respond, response, solution, suit), frangane. (various references)

Pig Latin

etortray.(various references)

Portuguese

retorta. (various references)

Romanian

ripostã (rejoinder, repartee, retortion, riposte), retortã, retorsiune (retaliation), represalie (reprisal), replicã (catchword, counterpart, cue, imitation, rejoinder, remark, repartee, replication, reply, respond, response, retortion, tag), rãspuns (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, answer, reaction, repartee, replication, reply, respond, respondence, response, script, solution), rãspunde (account, answer, come back, make answer, rejoin, reply, respond), distila (distil, extract, still), întoarce (crank, geld, put about, repay, retaliate, reverse, revert, set, shift, spade, turn). (various references)

Russian 

реторта (converter, cucurbit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

retorta (crucible, matrass), uzvratiti (answer, replicate, reply, respond, return, turn around), odgovor (answer, rejoinder, replication, reply, response, return), brzo odgovoriti. (various references)

Spanish

retorta (flask), replicar (answer, answer back, come back, riposte, talk back). (various references)

Swedish

replikera (rejoin, return), replik (answer, lines, rejoinder, repetition, reply), genmäla (object, plead, rejoin, reply). (various references)

Turkish

sert cevap vermek, sert cevap (rejoinder, sharp answer), imbik (alembic, distiller, distillery, flask, still), cevabı yapıştırmak (answer back, field, give a sharp reply, make a point, rejoin, riposte), aynen karşılık vermek, anında yapıştırılan cevap. (various references)

Ukrainian

реторта (boiler, cucurbit), відповідати різко й дотепно, відповідати тим же, відплата (atonement, comeback, comeuppance, nemesis, oblation, quits, requital, retaliation, retribution, reward, wages, wrack), заперечення (answer, but, demur, denegation, denial, deprecation, disavowal, disclaimer, exception, impugnment, nay-say, negative, no, objection, opposition, plea, protest, rejoinder, repudiation), переганяти в реторті. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự vặn lại, sự trả miếng (retaliation), sự trả đũa (reprisal, retaliation), sự câi lại, sự bắt bẻ lại, sự đập lại, sự đối đáp lại lời vặn lại, lời câi lại, lời đập lại, lời đối đáp lại (riposte). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "RETORT": retorted, retorter, retorters, retorting, retorts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"RETORT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erott, raetor, recort, Redort, refort, reshot, restorat, retart, retat, retore, retorte, retout, revort, rhetor, ritort, rituro, rotart, terott. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rotter.

-1 letter: otter, retro, rotte, torte, toter.

-2 letters: rote, tore, torr, tort, tote, tret, trot.

-3 letters: err, ore, ort, ret, roe, rot, tet, toe, tor, tot.

-4 letters: er, et, oe, or, re, to.

+1 letter: retorts, rotters, stertor, torrent, torture, trotter.

+2 letters: extorter, frotteur, garotter, garrotte, grottier, overtart, potterer, remittor, retorted, retorter, retroact, retrofit, rostrate, rottener, stertors, torrents, tortured, torturer, tortures, totterer, trotters, troutier.

+3 letters: detractor, distorter, extorters, extractor, extrovert, forgetter, formatter, frotteurs, garotters, garrotted, garrottes, introvert, literator, miterwort, mitrewort, overtreat, potterers, prostrate, protector, protester, protestor, rectorate, remittors, retorters, retorting, retractor, retroacts, retrodict, retrofits, rotameter, rotatores, territory, terrorist, throatier, throttler, throwster, tolerator, tormenter, tormentor, torridest, tortrixes, torturers, totterers, trattorie, trisector.