Response

Definition: Response

Response

Noun

1. A result; "this situation developed in response to events in Africa".

2. A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age".

3. A statement (either spoken or written) that is made in 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".

4. The manner in which something is greeted; "she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors".

5. A phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister.

6. The speech act of continuing a conversational exchange; "he growled his reply".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "response" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Aerospace

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Environment

Food & Agriculture

Statistics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

RESPONSE

RESPONSE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Response

Absence or want of Intellect

Instinct, brute instinct, stimulus-response loop, conditioned response, instinctive reaction, Pavlovian response.

Answer

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

Concord

Noun: concord, accord, harmony, symphony; homologue; agreement; sympathy, empathy; (love); response; union, unison, unity; bonds of harmony; peace; unanimity; (assent); league; happy family.

Feeling

Noun: feeling; suffering; Verb: endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy; (love); impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense.

Friendship

Cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale, good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.

Worship

Psalm, psalmody; hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet; antiphon, antiphony.

Crosswords: Response

German (response).

Sir, it's immediate, it's decisive, it's low-risk, and it's a proportional response. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Either I get a formal response to my request for the same lunch allowance as Henry or I shall withdraw my labor (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

If that's true, then what's my response to that postulate (Enter the Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You have no pulse, your blood pressure's zero-over-zero, you have no papillary response, no reflexes and your temperature is 70 degrees (The Return of the Living Dead; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Rudy Ricci)

Typical mom response. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

In response to the way that I was kicking it (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)

Events are less important than our response to them. (references; author: unknown)

The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive. (references; author: unknown)

The Female Response (1973)

On Scene: Emergency Response (1990)

Her Total Response (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Fire and Disaster Response Products in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• Immune Response Corporation (The): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Response Oncology, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Response USA, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Precision Response Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Host resistance to commensal bacteria: the response to dental plaque: a symposium held during the Spring Meeting of the British Society of Periodontology in the University of Edinburgh, 22nd-24th March, 1972 (reference)

• CONFINED SPACE ENTRY AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE (reference)

• Perspectives on the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections: Surveillance and Response System, A Program Review (reference)

• Current Crisis Communication Issues : Getting Your Boss to Buy Into Crisis Planning; Building a Crisis Response Plan That Works; When to Send Your Boss Out to Meet the Press; Managing The Lawyers; Managing The Violent Threat (reference)

• By Philosophy & Empty Deceit: Colossians As Response to a Cynic Critique. (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Ser No 118) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Response : Multi-channel Direct Advertising (reference)

• Fsa Consultation Papers Discussion Papers And Response Paper (reference)

• Direct Response Television Monitoring Report - Monthly (reference)

• Disaster Management & Response (reference)

• Interactive Voice Response (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Marine Fire: First Response (reference)

• Rapid Response Manufacturing (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Call & Response [Emperor Norton] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

• Jambo and Other Call & Response Songs and Chants (reference)

• Yeah, But the Response Was Great (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• IBM ACTIVE RESPONSE PRO106 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Deluxe Smart Response Swing (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Long-term cultured AIDS-KS (Kaposi's Sarcoma) cells were injected into a nude mouse. Within 5 days a subcutaneous lesion formed in the induced region with a marked angiogenic response. A cross-section of these new blood vessel formations appear as open spaces, where one can see dividing epithelial cells and some red blood cells. The cells were stained with a Wright-Gimsa stain and are seen at a magnification of 100x. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The patient is a 53 year old woman with metastatic melanoma to multiple subcutaneous sites and retroperitoneum. She was treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) transduced with the gene for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Pretreatment biopsy shows multiple live melanoma cells with little lymphoid infiltrate. Following treatment with TNF gene modified TILs plus interleukin-2, a biopsy of another lesion showed massive coagulative necrosis of the tumor with no viable tumor seen. This is a typical picture seen in experimental animals treated with tumor necrosis factor. This patient has had a substantial objective response that is currently ongoing at nine months following initiation of treatment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Cut surface of gross autopsy specimen of liver showing diffuse pallor due to dense network of scar tissue (fibrosis, cirrhosis). Scarring has occurred in response to chronic injury from alcohol abuse. Credit: CDC.

Fire and emergency response personnel practice techniques for hazardous materials containment and removal. Credit: CDC.

HAZMAT Response. Credit: NASA.

Egyptian tomb painting from 1450 B.C. showing officer with sounding pole Officer is telling crew to come ahead slow Engineers with cat-o'-nine-tails assuring proper response from engines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Spill response and clean-up at the oil spill site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An AUV as the first line of event response. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Visible imagery (VIS) and Infrared (IR) photographs from NOAA 2 Very High Resolution Radiometers (VHRR), orbit 2453. NOAA 2 was at an altitude of 905 miles. The visible channel represents reflected light, while the IR image has been derived from a sensor response to the temperature of the earth, ocean, and clouds. Credit: NOAA in Space.

STAN, short for "standard man," is a life-like computer-controlled casualty simulator used for training Air Force nurses in a variety of disaster response and wartime skills. (Courtesy photo).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The insurgents made no response to this musketry, to spare their ammunition

Now a response filled in the pause, and the exhortation went up with a tone of triumph, and a growl of power came into the voice

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This response is called autoimmunity. (references)

Mass screening has resulted in the least response. (references)

This may be caused by an immune response or injury. (references)

Business

Forty percent of all advertisements request a direct customer response. (references)

Timely response is very important to build good business relationships. (references)

Without such alliances, it is difficult to get effective police response. (references)

Children

Germany

The law stresses the need for preventive measures, and in response the Government has increased its counseling and other assistance to abused children. (references)

South Africa

NGO's have called for reforms of social security programs, including programs targeted at children, particularly in response to the increasing number of HIV/AIDS orphans. (references)

Civil Liberties

Panama

Most observers believe that the response by the police was measured and restrained. (references)

Discrimination

Slovak Republic

In September Deputy Prime Minister Csaky's office drafted a comprehensive antidiscrimination law in response to findings in 2000 from a committee that was appointed to examine existing antidiscrimination legislation and determine whether additional legislation is necessary. (references)

Economic History

Venezuela

Correspondence in English is unlikely to get a response. (references)

Thailand

The end-user can expect an immediate response to inquiries. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

By year's end there had been no published official response. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

All deauthorizations were in response to serious acts of misconduct. (references)

Cuba

At year's end, the CCHRNC had not received a response from the Government. (references)

Indigenous People

Colombia

The U'wa broke off talks with the Government in September 2000, in response to a ruling by the Government's agrarian reform agency authorizing the state oil company to purchase lands to create a buffer zone around the drilling area, and talks remained suspended during the year. (references)

Mexico

On April 25, in response to a proposal made by the Governments of Mexico and Guatemala, the U.N. Human Rights Commission voted to establish the office of Special Rapporteur for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples and in July appointed Rodolfo Stavenhagen, a professor at the Colegio de Mexico's Center for Sociological Studies and former advisor to the EZLN during its negotiations with the Government. (references)

Australia

In March 2000, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed serious concern that the Government's Native Title amendments would allow the states and territories to pass legislation containing provisions "reducing further the protection of native title claimants." The CERD declared "unsatisfactory" the Government's response to concerns about the Native Title regime expressed in 1999. The Government responded later that year that the laws were passed after full debate in a democratically elected legislature and that the states have a sovereign right to determine land use policy. (references)

Minorities

United Kingdom

The CRE monitors the response to such notices for 5 years. (references)

Japan

Several local governments already have changed their rules in response to the Government's position. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Protests in Bosniak majority areas in response to the Trebinje and Banja Luka riots were largely peaceful. (references)

Political Economy

PORTUGAL

With monetary union, Portugal no longer has the ability to craft a monetary response to the situation. (references)

Guyana

The GDF is a professional military responsible for national defense, internal security, and emergency response. (references)

Cameroon

After waiting for 6 months for a government response, one station assumed tacit approval and began to broadcast. (references)

Political Rights

Gambia

This boycott was criticized widely, including within the opposition coalition, as unjustified and as an inappropriate response to the alleged fraud. (references)

Tanzania

Unlike in the previous year, international donors did not suspend direct assistance to Zanzibar in response to the authorities' human rights abuses. (references)

Macedonia

In May in a display of unity in response to the insurgency, all major political parties--including ethnic-Albanian parties--joined a coalition government. (references)

Trade

Philippines

Again this is primarily in response to complaints about imports from the local fisheries industry. (references)

Botswana

SACU tariffs have been progressively reduced, partly in response to World Trade Organization (WTO) membership. (references)

Japan

If an inquiry is too specific for the Association to answer, it will refer the inquiry to the appropriate Japanese industry organization for a response. (references)

Travel

Latvia

However, quick response is poor in rural areas. (references)

Bulgaria

Therefore, it is best to clarify the situation by obtaining a verbal response. (references)

Ecuador

The President of Ecuador has declared temporary states of emergency in parts of Ecuador on several occasions, often as a response to high crime rates. (references)

Women

Bhutan

However, female school enrollment has been growing in response to government policies. (references)

Albania

In the country's traditionally male-dominated society, cultural acceptance and lax police response resulted in most abuse going unreported. (references)

Japan

An antistalking law went into effect in November 2000 in response to rising complaints about women's lack of recourse in dealing with stalkers. (references)

Worker Rights

Brunei

The DOL inspects working conditions on a routine basis and in response to complaints. (references)

Russia

They all state that better legislation is necessary before any law enforcement response is possible. (references)

Ecuador

Response time for inspectors ranges from a few days in major cities to much longer in the countryside. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "response": anamnestic response ♦ asynchronous response mode ♦ automatic voice response system ♦ biological response modifier ♦ Biological Response Modifiers ♦ bridge response to dynamic loading ♦ chopped response ♦ complete response ♦ computer Emergency Response Team ♦ conditional response ♦ conditioned avoidance response ♦ conditioned emotional response ♦ conditioned response ♦ Consultary response ♦ customs response message ♦ disconnected mode response ♦ DM response ♦ dose response ♦ dynamic response index ♦ dynamic response of bridge ♦ electrical skin response ♦ electrodermal response ♦ emotional response ♦ evoked response audiometry ♦ finite Impulse Response ♦ flexible response ♦ frequency response ♦ galvanic skin response ♦ HAMA response ♦ hazardous material incident response ♦ HAZMAT incident response ♦ Heat-Shock Response ♦ humoral immune response ♦ identification response message ♦ immediate response ♦ immune response ♦ immune response associated ♦ immunologic response ♦ in response to ♦ infinite Impulse Response ♦ infinite impulse response digital filter ♦ interactive Voice Response ♦ learned response ♦ legal administration response in civil proceedings message ♦ nonlinear response ♦ nuclear target response ♦ omnidirectional response ♦ partial response ♦ partial Response Maximum Likelihood ♦ pavement primary response ♦ pavlovian response ♦ PIC response ♦ positional response ♦ psychogalvanic response ♦ purchase order response message ♦ quadratic response ♦ quadrature partial response ♦ quantal response ♦ radar response ♦ response and expedition prepaid ♦ response curves ♦ Response Elements ♦ response lag ♦ response of pending works message ♦ response primitive ♦ response rate ♦ response time ♦ Satiety Response ♦ SOS Response (Genetics) ♦ SSR response ♦ startle response ♦ supplier response message ♦ tourism information response message ♦ unnumbered acknowledgement response. Additional references.

Beginning with "response": response-ability, response-correlated, response-cost, response-modelling, response-patterns, response-produced, response-signalling, response-testing.

Ending with "response": fault-response, process-response, reader-response, stimulus-response.

Containing "response": camp-response-element-binding-protein, camp-response-element-modulator, frequency-response characteristic, frequency-response curve.

Albanian

reagim (feedback, handling, reaction, rebound), përgjigje (answer, comeback, rejoinder, replication, reply, respond, retort, return). (various references)

Arabic 

اِسْتِجابة (reaction), ‏ترانيم, ‏جواب (answer, rejoinder, reply, return), ‏إستجابة (echo, restraint), ‏إجابة (answer), ‏رد فعل (react, reaction), ‏رد (answer, answer back, beat, counter, disallow, drive back, pay, pay back, put off, rebound, rebuff, rebut, rebuttal, rejoinder, render, repay, repayment, repercussion, reply, respond, retrieve, return, reverberate, reversion, riposte, spurn, turn away). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отклик (echo), отговор (answer, rejoinder, replication, reply, solution), отглас (ablaut, answer, echo, gradation, resonance), отзвук (answer, backwash, echo, reflection, repercussion), отзив (notice, report, review), ектения (respond). (various references)

Chinese 

應對 (to answer, to reply), 反应 (reaction, respond, Responded, Responding), 反應 (reaction, reply), 反映 (reaction, to mirror, to reflect). (various references)

Czech

reakce (reaction), odpovìï (answer, come back, rejoinder, reply, retort), odezva (echo, follow up, repercussion). (various references)

Danish

respons (response primitive). (various references)

Dutch

respons (response rate). (various references)

Farsi 

پاسخ (Answer, Reply, Respond), واکنش (Rebound, Reflex, Repercussion), جوابگوءی (Responsibility). (various references)

Finnish

reaktio (reaction), vaste (answer back, dog, impost, stop), vastausprimitiivi (response primitive), vastaus (answer, rejoinder, reply, retort), vastakaiku. (various references)

French

réponse (reply), réaction (reaction). (various references)

German

Reaktion (feedback, reaction), Antwort (answer, reply, replying, responds). (various references)

Greek 

απάντηση (answer, rebutter, rejoinder, reply, reply to, rescript, riposte), απόκριση (respond, response primitive). (various references)

Hebrew 

מענה (answer, reply), תשובה (answer, rejoinder, reply, retort, return), תגובה (reaction, reflex, reply, retaliation, retort), הענות (compliance, responsiveness), הגבה (reaction, retort). (various references)

Hungarian

válaszolás (rejoinder), válasz (answer, reaction, rejoinder, repartee, replication, reply), reakció (backlash, reaction), reagálás (abreaction, reaction), felelet (answer, plain answer, recitation, reply), érzelmi visszahatás, visszhang (echo, reverberations). (various references)

Indonesian

pembalas (avenger, responder), jawaban (answer, reply, retort), cerapan (perception), balasan (answer, reply, reprisal, revenge), balas. (various references)

Italian

risposta (answer, rejoinder, reply, retort, return), reazione (reaction, rebound). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

手応え , 応答 (answer, reply), 応答　 (answer, reply), 共感 (sympathy), 復答 (reply), 反応 (reaction), 応手 (countermeasure), 受け答え (answer, reply), 返辞 (reply), 手答え (effect, reaction, resistance), 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, rest, rest house, rest room, restaurant, restaurant hotel, restaurant theater, retort, retouch, rhetoric, sticker, tow truck, wrestling), 答 (answer), 答え (answer), 答弁 (answer, defence, reply), 返書 (reply), 反応　 (reaction). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おうしゅ (countermeasure), おうとう (answer, cherry, monarchists, reply, royal descendants, royal line, royalists, yellow peach), レスポンス , きょうかん (assassin, between the mountains, breast, chest, ferocity, heinousness, instructor, mirror, one's hometown, outlaw, paragon, professor, scream, shout, sympathy, teacher, villain), うけこたえ (answer, reply), ふくとう (rejoining a political party, reply), こたえ (answer), へんしょ (reply), へんじ (a moment, accident, an instant, answer, calamity, conversion, converted character, emergency, reply), はんのう (part-time farming, reaction), とうべん (answer, defence, reply), てごたえ (effect, reaction, resistance). (various references)

Korean 

응답 (Answer, Answering). (various references)

Manx

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

Pig Latin

esponseray.(various references)

Portuguese

resposta (answer, rejoinder, replication, reply). (various references)

Romanian

replicã (catchword, counterpart, cue, imitation, rejoinder, remark, repartee, replication, reply, respond, retort, retortion, tag), reacţie (afterglow, reaction, reverberation), rãsunet (echo, sound), rãspuns (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, answer, reaction, repartee, replication, reply, respond, respondence, retort, script, solution). (various references)

Russian 

ответ (ans answer, answer, answerback, rejoin, replay, reply, report). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzvraćanje (reciprocation, rejoinder), odziv (reception, reply), odgovor (answer, rejoinder, replication, reply, retort, return). (various references)

Spanish

respuesta (answer, replication, reply, respond, return). (various references)

Swedish

respons, gensvar (feedback, reply). (various references)

Turkish

yansıma (rebound, reflection, reflex, reflexion, repercussion, reverberation), yanıt (answer, reply), tepki (answer, countercheck, reaction, reagent, rebound, reception, repercussion, repercussions, revulsion, take), ses verme (sonority), karşılık (answer, as against, bargain, consideration, counter, counterbalance, counterpart, counterweigh, equivalent, offset, payment, payoff, provision, provisions, quid pro quo, quittance, reciprocation, recompense, remuneration, repayment, reply, requital, return, reward, riposte, wages), etkilenme, cevap (answer, replication, reply), cemaatin papazdan sonra tekrarladığı ilâhi. (various references)

Ukrainian

реакція (antiperistasis, reaction), відгук (account, antiphon, repercussion, respond), відповідь (answer, antiphon, rejoinder, replication, reply, respond), взаємне почуття. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trả lời sự đáp lại, sự hưởng ứng sự phản ứng lại. (various references)

responsa, responsis, responso, responsum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "response": responses. (additional references)

Words ending with "response": counterresponse, nonresponse. (additional references)

Words containing "response": counterresponses, nonresponses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Response" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lesponne, reponse, resonse, respo, respon, responce, responde, respondee, respone, respons, responsa, resp-onse, responsed, responsib, responsw, respose, resposi, respun, risones, rsponse. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: openers, persons, reopens, reposes, senores.

-2 letters: eposes, eroses, opener, peones, pereon, perses, person, posers, preens, proses, reopen, repose, senors, sensor, sneers, snores, speers, spense, spores, sprees.

-3 letters: ernes, erose, erses, neeps, noses, opens, peens, peers, penes, peons, perse, pesos, pones, pores, porns, poser, poses, posse, preen, prees, prese, press, prone, prose, pross, repos.

+1 letter: isoprenes, nephroses, preseason, proneness, responses.

+2 letters: copresents, depression, endosperms, endospores, expression, interposes, necropsies, newsperson, noospheres, overspends, pensioners, personages, personates, personnels, poornesses, precensors, precession, preseasons, properness, repression, responders, responsive, ropinesses.

+3 letters: aepyornises, aponeuroses, depressions, expressions, houseperson, interposers, ionospheres, mesonephros, newspersons, nonresponse, nonspeakers, operoseness, patronesses, personalise, personifies, perversions, precessions, prednisones, prehensions, premoistens, premonishes, pretensions, profaneness, profuseness, pronenesses, prosinesses, proteinases, recompenses, repressions, respondents, responsible, salesperson, sniperscope, spleenworts, spongewares, superperson, unprocessed, unprofessed.