Word Finder - answers

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A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.

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Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face.

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A solution to a problem.

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There is no simple answer to corruption.

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A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.

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To make a reply or response to.

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He answered the question.

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To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.

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to answer a charge or accusation

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To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.

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Nobody answered when I knocked on the door.

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To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.

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It answers the need.

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To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.

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He has a lot to answer for.

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• answer for

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To file a document in response to a complaint.

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To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.

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To be opposite, or to act in opposition.

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To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.

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To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.

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To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.

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He answered my claim upon him.

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To render account to or for.

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To atone for; to be punished for.

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To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.

Well, that answers a few questions.

I guess that answers my question.

I think it is likely that the answers to almost all our medical problems could be found in the data we may already be collecting.

Don't bother to ask questions because you won't get many answers.

The answers fell into place, one after another like a child's wooden puzzle, and even absent the last lingering block, the finished the picture was finally clear.

He grappled with the answers.

She doesn't realize her time on this earth is ebbing to a close, perhaps only minutes from now after she answers my questions.

Now he was sure he had some answers.

He didn't want answers.

The answers cannot be accounted for without the previous existence of the questions.

The strangeness and absurdity of these replies arise from the fact that modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one has asked.

We have all the past questions and answers saved here for you to enjoy.

There are no right or wrong answers to these questions.

In short, there is no real nobility in England; for the class which answers to foreign nobility has so long ceased to have any practical privileges that it has long ceased to be looked on as a nobility, and the word nobility has been transferred to another class which has nothing answering to it out of the three British kingdoms. 2 This last ' This statement is mainly interesting as expressing the late Professor Freeman's view; it is, however, open to serious criticism.

The section requiring annual reports, while it led to the creation of a Bureau of Statistics, did not give the Commission power to compel complete or satisfactory answers to its requests for information.

Borlase's letters to Pope, St Aubyn and others, with answers, fill several volumes of MS. There are also MS. notes on Cornwall, and a complete unpublished treatise Concerning the Creation and Deluge.

On the practical side, mysticism maintains the possibility of direct intercourse with this Being of beings - intercourse, not through any external media such as an historical revelation, oracles, answers to prayer, and the like, but by a species of ecstatic transfusion or identification, in which the individual becomes in very truth " partaker of the divine nature."

For attaching it to the paper a strong mucilage of gum tragacanth, containing an eighth of its weight of spirit of wine, answers best.

An outline of the modern answers to questions such as the above will now be given.

The one is John of Tellä, author of 538 canons,' answers to questions by the priest Sergius, a creed and an exposition of the Trisagion.

In certain chapters it is possible to discern the questions of the missi and the answers of the inhabitants.

The first section is a preface containing exhortation in general terms. The main section is the second, containing a series of night visions, the significant features of which are pointed out by an angel who stands by the prophet and answers his questions.

The so-called exedra of Herodes Atticus (which answers in all respects to a nymphaeum in the Roman style), the nymphaeum in the palace of Domitian and those in the villa of Hadrian at Tibur (five in number) may be specially mentioned.

When the new councils were established and beginning to work, he strongly set his face against any meddling with their proceedings by questions and answers in Parliament.

But the answers may be superseded by better answers, or they may be rendered unnecessary because the questions are no longer asked.

Thus answers to his inquiries were delayed.

Menno was not satisfied with the inconsistent answers which he got from Luther, Bucer and Bullinger; he resolved to rely on Scripture alone, and from this time describes his preaching as evangelical, not sacramental.

The census figures relate to the calendar year preceding 1st June 1900, and hurried and careless answers about the preceding year's crop are almost sure to have been given by many farmers in the midst of the summer's work.

Even on the population returns certain answers, such as the number of the divorced or the number unable to read and write, may be open to question.

He answers her " My hour is not yet come," i.e.

The sela` in late Hebrew answers to the older shekel, and the mention of it seems to point to Jewish or Christian influence.

The matter peculiar to Matthew and Luke raises a number of interesting questions which are still too much sub judice to be answered decidedly or dogmatically, though approximate and provisional answers may before long be forthcoming.

It has 107 questions and answers, while that of the Anglican Church has but 24, grouping as it does the ten commandments and also the petitions of the Lord's Prayer, instead of dealing with them singly.

Looking at the record in Eric the Red Saga, it would seem probable that Leif's Vinland answers to some part of southern Nova Scotia.

No less than thirty-five answers were directed against this book, the most noteworthy of which were those of Bishop Edward Chandler, Arthur Sykes and Samuel Clarke.

Knowledge resides not in sense but in reason, which, on the suggestion of sensations of changing individuals, apprehends, or (to be precise) is reminded of, real universal forms, and, by first ascending from less to more general until it arrives at the form of good and then descending from this unconditional principle to the less general, becomes science and philosophy, using as its method the dialectic which gives and receives questions and answers between man and man.

It answers well for fence-posts and river piles; many of the foundations of Venice rest upon larch, the lasting qualities of which were well known and appreciated, not only in medieval times, but in the days of Vitruvius and Pliny.

With a view to obtaining answers to them, it is necessary to consider the reception of the Gospels in the early Church, and also to examine and compare the Gospels themselves.

If a witness answers truly all questions which he is required by the court to answer, he is entitled to receive a certificate of indemnity, which will save him from all proceedings for any offence under the Corrupt Practices Acts committed by him before the date of the certificate at or in relation to the election, except proceedings to enforce any incapacity incurred by such offence.

Haeckel answers that it has no origin, because sensation is an inherent property of all substance.

Bradley answers idealistically that the one Real is one absolute experience, because all we know is experience.

They gave answers to such questions as were submitted to them; the machinery moved when set in motion from outside; but the popes did not attempt to interfere on their own initiative.

Armenian tradition, confirmed by nearly contemporary Greek sources, answers the first question.

To him, therefore, Lessing addressed in 1778 his most elaborate answers - Eine Parabel, Axiomata, eleven letters with the title Anti-Goeze, and two pamphlets in reply to an inquiry by Goeze as to what Lessing meant by Christianity.

The discourse on the resurrection answers objections to the doctrine, and attempts to prove its truth from considerations of God's purpose in the creation of man, His justice and the nature of man himself.

The monovalent iodine, for instance, is transformed by heating into an allotropic form, corresponding to the formula I, whereas ordinary iodine answers to I 2.

The ruin of Kerak answers to the description given by Josephus of the city of Taricheae, which lay 30 stadia from Tiberias, the hot baths being between the two cities.

For use on ordinary water-meadows, however, not only is very clear water often found to be perfectly efficient, but water having no more than a few grains of dissolved matter per gallon answers the purposes in view satisfactorily.

Only extremely qualified answers can be given to these questions.

Deceptive answers were returned to these, and Au was induced by them to advance The Maine- towards Cairo at the head of 3000 men.