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Answering   /ˈænsərɪŋ/   Listen
Answering

adjective
1.
Replying.  Synonym: respondent.  "An answering smile"



Answer

verb
(past & past part. answered; pres. part. answering)
1.
React verbally.  Synonyms: reply, respond.  "Answer the question" , "We answered that we would accept the invitation"
2.
Respond to a signal.  "Answer the telephone"
3.
Give the correct answer or solution to.  "Answer the riddle"
4.
Understand the meaning of.  Synonym: resolve.
5.
Give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument).
6.
Be liable or accountable.
7.
Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity.  Synonyms: do, serve, suffice.  "This car suits my purpose well" , "Will $100 do?" , "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school" , "Nothing else will serve"
8.
Match or correspond.
9.
Be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of.
10.
React to a stimulus or command.



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"Answering" Quotes from Famous Books



... V.V., why I wasn't prompter answering your letter. I've tried to keep my courage up like you advised, but it's too much for one man to carry. May you never know the awful feeling that you're an outcast, not wanted anywhere, is ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... been a long time answering your letter on account of waiting to consult your mother. I was willing to take you back, but your mother is not agreeable, so I cannot interfere between you. I enclose your mother's letter, so you can see how I stand in the matter. Try and do good where you ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... answering questions. Let me think awhile. Is war the only alternative? They blame me for not talking out. Fools, they don't know where they stand. At home and abroad, difficulty. Our workmen emigrating; the ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870 • Various

... in 1689. We have referred to his origin; Langbaine gives 1642 as the date of his birth; so that he must have set up as author early in life, and departed from life shortly past middle-age. Derrick assures us that he was lusty, ungainly, and coarse in person,—a description answering to the full-length of Og. The commentators upon "MacFlecknoe" have not made due use of one of Shadwell's habits, in illustration of the reason why a wreath of poppies was selected for the crown of its hero. The dramatist, Warburton ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various

... Manning and Jackson had been untiring in their efforts to obtain some traces of the robbers. They had found a number of people who recollected seeing two men, answering the description of the suspected thieves, who carried a valise between them, but beyond a certain point all traces of them stopped. It seemed that the ground had opened and swallowed them up, so effectual had been ...
— The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives • Allan Pinkerton


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