Rejoinder vs. Retort — What's the Difference?

A reply, especially a sharp or witty one

In a chemistry laboratory, a retort is a device used for distillation or dry distillation of substances. It consists of a spherical vessel with a long downward-pointing neck.

An answer, especially to a reply.

Say something in answer to a remark, typically in a sharp, angry, or witty manner

(legal) The defendant's answer to the replication.

Repay (an insult or injury)

A response that answers another response.

Heat in a retort in order to separate or purify

A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty, especially an answer to a question.

A sharp, angry, or witty reply

Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement.

A container or furnace for carrying out a chemical process on a large or industrial scale

(intransitive) To issue a rejoinder.

To reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner.

(transitive) To say as a rejoinder.

To present a counterargument to (an argument or accusation).

An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.

(Archaic) To return in kind; pay back.

The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.

To make a reply, especially a quick, caustic, or witty one.

To make a rejoinder.

To present a counterargument.

A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);

(Archaic) To return like for like; retaliate.

(law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication

A quick incisive reply, especially one that turns the first speaker's words to that speaker's own disadvantage.

The act or an instance of retorting.

A closed laboratory vessel with an outlet tube, used for distillation, sublimation, or decomposition by heat.

A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.

(chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.

An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.

A pressure cooker.

A crematory furnace.

To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.

To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.

To bend or curve back.

To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.

(transitive) To heat in a retort.

To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.

To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.

To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.

To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.

The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.

A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.

A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);

A vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat

Answer back