Explore vs Respond - What's the difference?
explore | respond |
(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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(medicine) To examine diagnostically.
To (seek) experience first hand.
To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
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(intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response; to accord.
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(ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
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To satisfy; to answer.
A response.
A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
(architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
As verbs the difference between explore and respond
is that explore is while respond is (intransitive) to say something in return; to answer; to reply.As a noun respond is
a response.explore
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Verb
(explor)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
Synonyms
* (examine or investigate systematically) delve into, researchDerived terms
* explorerrespond
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Verb
(en verb)- to respond to a question or an argument
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- For his great deeds respond his speeches great.
- The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.