Reply vs Nonreplier - What's the difference?
reply | nonreplier |
(intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
To act or gesture in response.
* 1988 , Emmanuel Doe Ziorklui, Ghana: Nkrumah to Rawlings
To repeat something back; to echo.
A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
Something given in reply.
One who does not reply (to a survey etc.).
* 1948 , Douglas Edgar Scates, Frank Nugent Freeman, John Cayce Morrison, Review of educational research (page 440)
As nouns the difference between reply and nonreplier
is that reply is a written or spoken response; part of a conversation while nonreplier is one who does not reply (to a survey etc).As a verb reply
is (intransitive) to give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.reply
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Please reply to my letter.
- "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.
- He replied that he was not sure.
- Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.
- It is a sound to be dreaded until you ascertain that it is being made by friendly forces; even then, your welcome to it must be tempered with some caution, because gunfire usually leads to replying gunfire
Synonyms
* respond, answer, retort, answer back, react, rejoin, counter, return, revert, follow up, get back toNoun
(replies)Synonyms
* answer, comeback, response, retort, return, account, rejoinder, riposte, reactionnonreplier
English
Noun
(en noun)- Five hundred five respondents and 882 nonrepliers were personally interviewed.