Definition of React

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Definition of React

React

To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

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React Quotations

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mohandas Gandhi

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Tom Landry

Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
Mike Tyson

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller

React Translations

react in Afrikaans is reageer
react in Danish is reagere
react in Dutch is reageren
react in German is reagieren, reagieren, Reagiere
react in Italian is reagire
react in Portuguese is reaja
react in Spanish is reaccionar

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