What is the difference between reply and respond?
reply | respond |
(intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
To act or gesture in response.
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To repeat something back; to echo.
A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
Something given in reply.
(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.
Respond is a synonym of reply.
In transitive intransitive terms the difference between reply and respond
is that reply is to give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer while respond is to say something in return; to answer; to reply.In intransitive terms the difference between reply and respond
is that reply is to repeat something back; to echo while respond is to act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response; to accord.In transitive terms the difference between reply and respond
is that reply is : He replied that he was not sure.respond is to satisfy; 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, reactionrespond
English
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.