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Answering   /ˈænsərɪŋ/   Listen
Answering

adjective
1.
Replying.  Synonym: respondent.  "An answering smile"


Answer

verb
(past & past part. answered; pres. part. answering)
1.
React verbally.  Synonyms: reply, respond.  "Answer the question" , "We answered that we would accept the invitation"
2.
Respond to a signal.  "Answer the telephone"
3.
Give the correct answer or solution to.  "Answer the riddle"
4.
Understand the meaning of.  Synonym: resolve.
5.
Give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument).
6.
Be liable or accountable.
7.
Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity.  Synonyms: do, serve, suffice.  "This car suits my purpose well" , "Will $100 do?" , "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school" , "Nothing else will serve"
8.
Match or correspond.
9.
Be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of.
10.
React to a stimulus or command.



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"Answering" Quotes from Famous Books



... forest, where he amused himself with a bow and arrow of his own manufacture. But when for the first time he killed a tiny bird, and saw it lying limp and helpless in his hand, he brought it tearfully to his mother and inquired what it meant. In answering him she, for the first time also, mentioned the name of God; and when he eagerly questioned her about the Creator, she said to him: "Brighter is God than e'en the brightest day; yet once he took the ...
— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber
... up, without answering. He seemed irresolute, and his brother started to draw him towards the door. "I've got a car here. We can get a train in ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair
... exclaimed, the strange spell broken; but instead of answering, Mrs. Muir gasped, and then broke out crying, a queer gurgly sort of crying which frightened the girl. She did not dislike the housekeeper, and she was so genuinely distressed as well as surprised at this strange exhibition, that she would ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... your house, nor the attentions of your friends. I am sensible that I gave to you and your amiable family a great trouble; but your goodness will not acknowledge it, and by so doing, it more impresses my mind with the obligation, and with a true answering affection for ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter
... embody throughout the same idea. In fact, they leave us in doubt as to whether any one recognized deity is to be understood. Was there in the Maya pantheon such a deity as the god of death? I have so far been unable to find any satisfactory reason for answering this ...
— Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices • Cyrus Thomas


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