Reply vs Redly - What's the difference?
reply | redly |
(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.
In a red manner.
* {{quote-book
, year=1979
, date=October 12
, author=Douglas Adams
, title=The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
, section=chapter 3
, isbn=0-330-25864-8
, id=OCLC 24722438
, passage=…you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon…}}
As a verb reply
is to give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.As a noun reply
is a written or spoken response; part of a conversation.As an adverb redly is
in a red manner.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
