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answer
[ an-ser, ahn- ]
noun
- a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.:
He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
Synonyms:
- a correct response to a question asked to test one's knowledge.
- an equivalent or approximation:
The band tried to be the French answer to the Beatles.
- an action serving as a reply or response:
The answer was a volley of fire.
- a solution to a problem, especially in mathematics.
- a reply to a charge or accusation.
Synonyms: ,
- Law. a pleading in which a party responds to the opponent's statement of position, especially the defendant's reply to the plaintiff's complaint.
- Music. the entrance of a fugue subject, usually on the dominant, either slightly altered or transposed exactly after each presentation in the tonic.
verb (used without object)
- to speak or write in response; make answer; reply.
- to respond by an act or motion:
He answered with a nod.
The champion answered with a right to the jaw.
- to act or suffer in consequence of (usually followed by for ).
- to be or declare oneself responsible or accountable (usually followed by for ):
I will answer for his safety.
- to be satisfactory or serve (usually followed by for ):
His cane answered for a baseball bat.
- to conform; correspond (usually followed by to ):
The prisoner answered to the description issued by the police.
verb (used with object)
- to speak or write in response to; reply to:
to answer a person;
to answer a question.
- to act or move in response to:
Answer the doorbell. We answered their goal with two quick goals of our own.
- to solve or present a solution of.
- to serve or fulfill:
This will answer the purpose.
- to discharge (a responsibility, claim, debt, etc.).
- to conform or correspond to; be similar or equivalent to:
This dog answers your description.
- to atone for; make amends for.
- to reply or respond favorably to:
I would like to answer your request but am unable to do so.
verb phrase
- to reply impertinently or rudely:
Well-behaved children do not answer back when scolded.
answer
/ 藞蓱藧苍蝉蓹 /
noun
- a reply, either spoken or written, as to a question, request, letter, or article
- a reaction or response in the form of an action
drunkenness was his answer to disappointment
- a solution, esp of a mathematical problem
- law
- a party's written reply to his opponent's interrogatories
- (in divorce law) the respondent's written reply to the petition
- a musical phrase that follows the subject of a fugue, reproducing it a fifth higher or a fourth lower
verb
- when tr, may take a clause as object to reply or respond (to) by word or act
he answered
to answer a question
he answered that he would come
to answer the door
- tr to reply correctly to; solve or attempt to solve
I could answer only three questions
- intrusually foll byto to respond or react (to a stimulus, command, etc)
the steering answers to the slightest touch
- tr to pay off (a debt, obligation, etc); discharge
- when intr, often foll by for to meet the requirements (of); be satisfactory (for); serve the purpose (of)
this will answer his needs
this will answer for a chisel
- when intr, often foll by to to match or correspond (esp in the phrase answer (or answer to ) the description )
- tr to give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of answer1
Idioms and Phrases
- answer the helm, Nautical. (of a vessel) to maneuver or remain steady according to the position of the rudder.
More idioms and phrases containing answer
- know all the answers
- take no for an answer
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
As is the case with most of his haphazard policy-making, even Trump himself doesn鈥檛 have a clear answer to these questions.
One student, Favour Eke, told BBC Igbo that 10 of the 165 questions didn't appear on the screen - all she could see was the multiple choice options for the answers.
鈥淚 knocked on the door,鈥 Fadden wrote in his report, but got no answer.
Around minute five, I answer my own question, summoning the spirit and words of the late poet Nikki Giovanni: 鈥淥nce you know who you are, you don鈥檛 have to worry anymore.鈥
鈥淚 think he has a unique, magnetic, mesmerizing presence that I felt like I would like to build a movie around,鈥 Anderson says, answering questions via voice notes sent over email.
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How Do You Spell Answer?
Spelling tips for聽answer
The word answer is hard to spell because the w is silent. Answer is pronounced [ an-ser ].聽
How to spell answer: First, remember that answer has a silent w. To remember that you should place the silent w immediately after the s, remember that you can abbreviate silent w as sw.
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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