RESPONSE meaning: Reaction to a stimulus or event

We found 43 dictionaries that define the word response:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

response: Merriam-Webster.com
response: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
response: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
response: Collins English Dictionary
response: Vocabulary.com
Response, response: Wordnik
response: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
response: Wiktionary
response: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
response: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
response: Infoplease Dictionary
response: Dictionary.com
response: Online Etymology Dictionary
response: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Response (album), Response (disambiguation), Response (liturgy), Response, The Response (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Response: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
response: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
response: Rhymezone
response: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
response: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
response: Free Dictionary
response: Mnemonic Dictionary
response: Dictionary/thesaurus
response: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)

Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
DS Dictionary (No longer online)
Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
response: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

response: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
response: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
response: Medical dictionary
Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Response: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
response: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Response: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Google, News, Wikipedia, Reddit, X, BlueSky, Kagi

Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
▸ noun:  The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
▸ noun:  An oracular answer.
▸ noun:  (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
▸ noun:  (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
▸ noun:  A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
▸ noun:  An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
▸ noun:  A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.

Opposite:

inaction, silence, question, stimulus, cause

Types:

verbal, nonverbal, emotional, physical, cognitive, more...

Phrases:

immune response, no response, response time, Frequency response, response rate, more...

Adjectives:

immune, inflammatory, emotional, positive, immediate, appropriate, correct, initial, normal, clinical, conditioned

Colors:

blue, red, green, yellow, orange, more...

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