counter
react
layan
bat an eyelid
counterrespond
response
move
reply
step up to the plate
take action
answer
emptive
counterstate
relate
reciprocity
evoke
return
greet
respond
self-report
countermove
tread
make
kind
take the initiative
bark up the wrong tree
ride bitch
counterresponse
responsitivity
counterreaction
surrejoin
bent
deal with
comport
pull the trigger
play into someone's hands
see to
say
get
revert back
answerer
have
back
responder
choose
respondent
make like
handle oneself
backscratch
meet with
pick a lane
accept
intercome
roll
counteractivity
responsorial
reflex
play one's cards right
retroaction
account to
enforce
constrain
predisposition
woman up
impose
conduct
respondee
chillax
cross the Rubicon
answer back
make do
retaliation
treat
counteraggressive
steer
take to heart
counterreply
terminate
make a move
tread in someone's steps
answer to
do by
marching orders
carry out
follow up
follow through
antiphon
reckoning
implement
follow out
interpose
prompt
put through
go through with
active
emptive
responsorial
counteraggressive
active
back
response
reciprocity
countermove
kind
counterresponse
responsitivity
counterreaction
bent
answerer
responder
respondent
counteractivity
retroaction
predisposition
respondee
retaliation
steer
counterreply
answer
marching orders
antiphon
reckoning
counter
react
layan
bat an eyelid
counterrespond
move
reply
step up to the plate
take action
answer
counterstate
relate
evoke
return
greet
respond
self-report
tread
make
take the initiative
bark up the wrong tree
ride bitch
surrejoin
deal with
comport
pull the trigger
play into someone's hands
see to
say
get
revert back
have
choose
make like
handle oneself
backscratch
meet with
pick a lane
accept
intercome
roll
reflex
play one's cards right
account to
enforce
constrain
woman up
impose
conduct
chillax
cross the Rubicon
answer back
make do
treat
take to heart
terminate
steer
make a move
tread in someone's steps
answer to
do by
carry out
follow up
follow through
implement
follow out
interpose
prompt
put through
go through with
verb
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To contradict, oppose.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
noun
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
adv
adj
verb
- To act in response.
- To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
- To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
- To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
noun
noun
- The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
- An oracular answer.
- A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
- An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
- A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
- An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
- A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
- A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
verb
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To request an action from the court.
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
noun
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A change in strategy.
- A round, in which each player has a turn.
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
verb
- To make a reply or response to.
- To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To file a document in response to a complaint.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
noun
noun
- The responses of individuals to the actions of others.
- A relation of mutual dependence or action or influence.
- A reciprocal construction involves two noun phrases where each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocal pronoun.
- A reciprocal relationship.
- The characteristic of being reciprocal, e.g. of a relationship between people.
- The mutual exchange of rights, privileges or obligations between nations. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocity (international relations).
verb
- To say in reply; to respond.
- To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- To recur; to come again.
- To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- To come or go back (to a place or person).
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- To report, or bring back and make known.
- To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- To place or put back something where it had been.
- To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
noun
- The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- An answer.
- A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- A carriage return character.
- The act of returning.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
verb
- To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
- To beat or press with the feet.
- To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
- To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- To step or walk upon.
- To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
- To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
- To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- To copulate with.
- To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
noun
- A step taken with the foot.
- The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
- The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
- The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
- A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
- The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
- The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
- The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
- A manner of stepping.
- The sound made when someone or something is walking.
verb
- To behave, to act.
- To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- To defecate or urinate.
- To constitute.
- To proceed (in a direction).
- To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To force to do.
- To move at (a speed).
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- To indicate or suggest to be.
- To enact; to establish.
- To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- To recognise, identify, spot.
- To take the virginity of.
- To perform a feat.
- To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- To cause to be.
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To interpret.
- To write or compose.
- To add up to, have a sum of.
- To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- To appoint; to name.
- To bring into success.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
noun
- A person's character or disposition.
- Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- A made basket.
- The camera was of German make.
- A home-made project
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- Brand or kind; model.
- Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- The closing of an electrical circuit.
- Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- A promotion.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
noun
- Equivalent means used as response to an action.
- A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
- A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
- Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
- Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
adj
noun
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- The old dried stalks of grasses.
- An inclination or talent.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
adj
verb
- To take action with respect to (someone or something).
- To behave in a certain way towards.
- To be in charge of, act on, or dispose of.
- To consider, as an example.
- To handle verbally or in some form of artistic expression; to address or discuss as a subject.
- To come to terms with; to overcome any difficulties presented by.
verb
- To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To indicate in a written form.
- To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
- To recite.
- To pronounce.
- To try; to assay.
- To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
intj
noun
- Tried quality; temper; proof.
- A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
- Essay; trial; attempt.
- Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
- A strainer for milk.
adv
verb
- To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To kill.
- To receive.
- To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- To getter.
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To have. See usage notes.
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To cause to do.
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To catch out, trick successfully.
- To find as an answer.
- To hear completely; catch.
- To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- To go, to leave; to scram.
- To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- To measure.
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- To perplex, stump.
- To cause to come or go or move.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
adv
- in reply
- in or to or toward a former location
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in or to or toward an original condition
- in or to or toward a past time
- in repayment or retaliation
noun
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
adj
verb
- be behind; approve of
- travel backward
- give support or one's approval to
- cause to travel backward
- support financial backing for
- be in back of
- place a bet on
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- establish as valid or genuine
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
adj
noun
verb
- To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- To admit to a place or a group.
- To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- To endure patiently.
- To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- To agree to pay.
- To receive officially.
- To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- To receive something willingly.
verb
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To create a customized version of.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
verb
noun
- The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
adj
verb
- To behave.
- To carry out (something organized)
- To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
- To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.)
- To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
- To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
noun
verb
- To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
- To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
- To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
- To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
- To provide something special and pleasant.
- To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward.
- To commit the offence of providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence a voter.
- To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
- To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in mind.
noun
noun
- A suggestion about a course of action.
- The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.
verb
- To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
- To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
- To direct a group of animals.
- To direct a conversation.
- To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
- To castrate (a male calf).
- To direct or send an object into a specific place
- To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
noun
verb
- To issue or result.
- Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- To conclude.
- To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- To kill someone or something.
- To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
adj
verb
- To take action.
- To depart from a place; to set off.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, move.
- To initiate a conversation or perform an action intended to engage the willing attention of a person in whom one has a romantic or sexual interest; to approach someone of romantic or sexual appeal in hopes of escalating to a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship.
adj
- Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative
- Brisk; lively.
- Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.
- Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
- (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner.
- Requiring or implying action or exertion
- Not passive.
- Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter.
- Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
- Emitting hot materials, such as lava, smoke, or steam, or producing tremors.
- Implying or producing rapid action.
- Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy
- Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.
- Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
- In action; actually proceeding; working; in force
noun
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