Reply vs. Respond — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Reply and Respond
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Reply
Say something in response to something someone has said
She replied that she had been sound asleep
He was gone before we could reply to his last remark
‘I'm OK—just leave me alone,’ he replied
Respond
A respond is a half-pier or half-pillar which is bonded into a wall and designed to carry the springer at one end of an arch.
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A verbal or written answer
I received a reply from the managing director
‘No,’ was the curt reply
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To make a reply; answer
Respond to an email.
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To speak or write as a reaction to a question or other prompting.
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To act in return or in answer
Firefighters responding to a call.
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To act in reaction or as a response
The enemy's bigs guns replied to the salvo.
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To react to a stimulus or to a treatment, especially in a favorable way
Tumors that responded to radiation.
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(Law) To respond to the defendant's answer or plea.
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To give as a reply; answer.
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To say or give as an answer
I replied that I was unable to help them.
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A pilaster or half-pier engaged to a wall and carrying one end of an arch or groin, often at the end of an arcade.
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A word or a series of words spoken or written in reaction, as to a question or request.
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To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
To respond to a question or an argument
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An act made in reaction or response.
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(intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.
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(Law) A plaintiff's response to the defendant's answer or plea, especially with regard to counterclaims made by the defendant.
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(ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
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To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
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(transitive) To satisfy; to answer.
The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.
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(intransitive) To act or gesture in response.
Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.
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(intransitive) To be liable for payment.
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(intransitive) To repeat something back; to echo.
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A response.
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A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
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A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
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Something given in reply.
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(architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
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A counterattack.
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To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
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(music) The answer of a figure.
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To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe.
To every theme responds thy various lay.
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A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.
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To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.
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To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
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To answer; to reply.
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To answer a defendant's plea.
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To suit or accord with; to correspond to.
For his great deeds respond his speeches great.
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Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.
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An answer; a response.
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To return for an answer.
Lords, vouchsafeTo give me hearing what I shall reply.
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A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
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That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
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A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.
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A statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation;
I waited several days for his answer
He wrote replies to several of his critics
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Show a response or a reaction to something
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The speech act of continuing a conversational exchange;
He growled his reply
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Reply or respond to;
She didn't want to answer
Answer the question
We answered that we would accept the invitation
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Reply or respond to;
She didn't want to answer
Answer the question
We answered that we would accept the invitation
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Respond favorably or as hoped;
The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy
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