Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To act in response to or under the influence of a stimulus or prompting.
- intransitive verb To act in opposition to a former condition or act.
- intransitive verb To act reciprocally or in return.
- intransitive verb Chemistry To undergo a reaction.
- intransitive verb To cause (a substance or substances) to undergo a reaction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To act or perform anew; reenact: as, to
react a play. - To exert, as a thing acted upon, an opposite action upon the agent.
- To act, after being acted upon, in a manner directly opposed to the first action, and in increased measure.
- To act mutually or reciprocally upon each other, as two or more chemical agents.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact
- intransitive verb To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force.
- intransitive verb To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
act orperform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome. - verb To
return animpulse or impression; toresist the action of another body by anopposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state. - verb To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb show a response or a reaction to something
- verb undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions
- verb act against or in opposition to
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Examples
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HANSEN: So, how did the label react when you presented them with "King of Anything"?
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HANSEN: So, how did the label react when you presented them with "King of Anything"?
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C: Speaking of recording East of Eden in Pakistan, how did your label react when you told them that's what you wanted to do?
Chicagoist Joseph Erbentraut 2010
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C: Speaking of recording East of Eden in Pakistan, how did your label react when you told them that's what you wanted to do?
Chicagoist Joseph Erbentraut 2010
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C: Speaking of recording East of Eden in Pakistan, how did your label react when you told them that's what you wanted to do?
Chicagoist Joseph Erbentraut 2010
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Friends and fans of tennis phenomenon Melanie Oudin react to her latest success in climbing the ranks at the U.S.
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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Carville, Matalin react to mocking from SNL « - Blogs from CNN. com
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Seth's story about how corporations react is classic, and typical of micro thinking - something that, yep you guessed it, I attribute to the profusion of MBAs, PR people and lawyers.
Geopolitics 2010
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Seth's story about how corporations react is classic, and typical of micro thinking - something that, yep you guessed it, I attribute to the profusion of MBAs, PR people and lawyers.
Leadership 2010
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That sense of discovering your characters and how they react is part of the joy of writing fiction for me.
A Conversation with Libba Bray about A Great and Terrible Beauty 2010
englishteacher commented on the word react
(verb): to act in response to something
April 6, 2010