Answer meanings. All definitions of Answer

verb transitive answer to reply to in words, by an action, etc. 3

verb transitive answer to say or write in reply 3

verb transitive answer to respond to the signal of (a telephone, doorbell, etc.) 3

verb transitive answer to fulfill satisfactorily; comply with; be sufficient for; serve 3

verb transitive answer to defend oneself against (an accusation, criticism, etc.); refute 3

verb transitive answer to agree with; conform to; suit 3

verb transitive answer to atone for 3

verb answer When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them. 3

countable noun answer An answer is something that you say when you answer someone. 3

verb answer If you answer a letter or advertisement, you write to the person who wrote it. 3

countable noun answer An answer is a letter that you write to someone who has written to you. 3

verb answer When you answer the telephone, you pick it up when it rings. When you answer the door, you open it when you hear a knock or the bell. 3

verb answer Answer is also a noun. 3

countable noun answer An answer to a problem is a solution to it. 3

countable noun answer Someone's answer to a question in a test or quiz is what they write or say in an attempt to give the facts that are asked for. The answer to a question is the fact that was asked for. 3

verb answer When you answer a question in a test or quiz, you write or say something in an attempt to give the facts that are asked for. 3

countable noun answer Your answer to something that someone has said or done is what you say or do in response to it or in defence of yourself. 3

verb answer If you answer something that someone has said or done, you respond to it. 3

singular noun answer If you say that something is a place's answer to a famous thing, you mean that the first thing is the equivalent of the second in that place. 3

verb answer If something answers a need or purpose, it satisfies it, because it has the right qualities. 3

verb answer If someone or something answers a particular description or answers to it, they have the characteristics described. 3

noun answer a reply, either spoken or written, as to a question, request, letter, or article 3

noun answer a reaction or response in the form of an action 3

noun answer a solution, esp of a mathematical problem 3

noun answer a party's written reply to his opponent's interrogatories 3

noun answer (in divorce law) the respondent's written reply to the petition 3

noun answer a musical phrase that follows the subject of a fugue, reproducing it a fifth higher or a fourth lower 3

verb answer to reply or respond (to) by word or act 3

verb answer to reply correctly to; solve or attempt to solve 3

verb answer to respond or react (to a stimulus, command, etc) 3

verb answer to pay off (a debt, obligation, etc); discharge 3

verb answer to meet the requirements (of); be satisfactory (for); serve the purpose (of) 3

verb answer to match or correspond (esp in the phrase answer (or answer to) the description) 3

verb answer to give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) 3

noun answer something said or written in return to a question, argument, letter, etc. 3

noun answer any act in response or retaliation 3

noun answer one that is a counterpart or equivalent of another, often as the result of imitation 3

noun answer a solution to a problem 3

noun answer a written pleading by which the defendant replies to the plaintiff's charges; defense 3

noun answer in a fugue, the second or fourth restatement of the subject in another voice and transposed to another key, usually at the interval of a fourth or fifth 3

intransitive verb answer to reply in words, by an action, etc. 3

intransitive verb answer to react to a stimulus; respond (to) 3

intransitive verb answer to serve the purpose; be sufficient 3

intransitive verb answer to be responsible or liable (to a person for an action, accusation, etc.) 3

intransitive verb answer to be in conformity; correspond (to) 3

noun answer A thing said, written, or done to deal with or as a reaction to a question, statement, or situation. 1

noun answer response 1

noun answer solution 1

transitive verb answer respond to a question 1

transitive verb answer solve sth 1

ALL meanings of answer