respond

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make a reply; answer. See Synonyms at answer.
2. v. To act in return or in answer.
3. v. To react positively or favorably: The patient has responded rapidly to the treatment.
4. v. To give as a reply; answer.
5. n. Architecture A pilaster or half-pier engaged to a wall and carrying one end of an arch or groin, often at the end of an arcade.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make answer; give a reply in words; specifically, to make a liturgical response.
2. To answer or reply in any way; exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus.
3. To correspond; suit.
4. To be answerable; be liable to make payment: as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.
5. To answer to; correspond to.
6. To answer; satisfy, as by payment: as, the prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.
7. n. An answer; a response.
8. n. In liturgics: A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection. In the Anglican Church the responses to the commandments (Kyries) are responds in this sense.
9. n. A response.
10. n. In architecture, a half-pillar, pilaster. or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
11. In biology, to react under a stimulus in such a way as to prepare for or escape from an event of which, in course of nature, the stimulus is the sign, signal, or constant antecedent; answer back to a stimulus by an action that commends itself to the human observer as prudent and judicious. See response, 3.

Wiktionary

1. v. To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
2. v. To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response; to accord.
3. v. To correspond; to suit.
4. v. To satisfy; to answer.
5. n. A response.
6. n. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
7. n. A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply.
2. v. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
3. v. To render satisfaction; to be answerable.
4. v. To answer; to reply.
5. v. To suit or accord with; to correspond to.
6. n. An answer; a response.
7. n. A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
8. n. A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. react verbally
2. v. respond favorably or as hoped
3. v. show a response or a reaction to something