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Definition of Answer

Answer To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. To be or act in return or response to. To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. To render account to or for. To atone; to be punished for. To be opposite to; to face. To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. To make a satisfactory response or return. To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care. To be or act in return. 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. To be opposite, or to act in opposition. To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer. To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to. A reply to a change; a defense. Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action. A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem. A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill. Related Definitions: Accommodation, Account, Accountable, Accusation, Act, Action, Address, Adequate, Against, Alleged, Amends, An, And, Answer, Answered, Argument, As, Atone, Be, Bell, By, Bill, Call, Care, Change, Charge, Claim, Complainant, Compliance, Conform, Conformity, Confutation, Consequence, Correspond, Correspondence, Course, Declaration, Defense, Demand, Done, Else, Employer, Equity, Equivalent, Explanation, Face, Few, For, Form, Fulfillment, Gypsum, He, Him, His, Has, In, Intrusted, Is, It, Justification, Like, Make, Man, Manure, Mathematical, Meet, Must, My, Money, Obligation, Of, On, Operation, Opposite, Opposition, Or, Order, Originally, Other, Party, Pleadings, Problem, Proportion, Punished, Purpose, Question, Reciprocation, Refute, Relation, Remark, Render, Repay, Reply, Respond, Response, Responsible, Responsive, Result, Return, Said, Satisfaction, Satisfactory, Servant, Serve, Solution, Some, Something, Speak, Speech, Sufficient, Suit, The, To, Upon, Usual, Very, Way, What, Will, With, Witness, Write, Written

Answer Quotations I will not take "but" for an answer. Langston Hughes An answer is always a form of death. John Fowles The answer is there is no answer. Chuck Palahniuk What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? Gertrude Stein What you are is a question only you can answer. Lois McMaster Bujold

Answer Translations answer in Afrikaans is beantwoord, antwoord answer in Danish is svar, svare answer in Dutch is antwoorden, antwoorden op answer in Finnish is vastata answer in Latin is refero answer in Norwegian is svare answer in Portuguese is responder, resposta answer in Spanish is contestar, contestar, respuesta, contestacion

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