Respond vs. Report — What's the Difference?

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.

A report is a document that presents information in an organized format for a specific audience and purpose. Although summaries of reports may be delivered orally, complete reports are almost always in the form of written documents.

To make a reply; answer

A formal account of the proceedings or transactions of a group

To act in return or in answer

A spoken or written account of an event, usually presented in detail

To react to a stimulus or to a treatment, especially in a favorable way

A person who is accountable or subordinate to another person within a company or organization

To give as a reply; answer.

Reports(Law) Bound volumes containing the published court opinions in legal cases, intended to provide a reference for precedents in subsequent cases.

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.

Reputation; repute

To say something in return; to answer; to reply.

(Archaic) Common talk; rumor or gossip.

(intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.

An explosive noise

(ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.

To make or present an official or formal account of

(transitive) To satisfy; to answer.

To write or provide an account or summation of for publication or broadcast

(intransitive) To be liable for payment.

To tell about the presence or occurrence of

A response.

To relate or tell, especially from personal experience

A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.

To submit or relate the results of considerations concerning

(architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

To carry back and repeat to another

To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

To complain about or denounce

To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.

To make a report

To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.

To serve as a reporter for a publication, broadcasting company, or other news media.

To answer; to reply.

To present oneself

To suit or accord with; to correspond to.

To be accountable or subordinate to someone

An answer; a response.

(transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).

A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.

To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.

A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.

To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.

Show a response or a reaction to something

(transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).

Reply or respond to;

(intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.

Respond favorably or as hoped;

(ambitransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.

(intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).

To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.

To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.

(obsolete) To refer.

To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).

Reputation.

(firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.

An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

To refer.

To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress.

To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported.

To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures.

To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.

To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.

To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race.

To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer.

To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.

To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.

To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.

That which is reported.

Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon.

Rapport; relation; connection; reference.

A written document describing the findings of some individual or group;

A short account of the news;

The act of informing by verbal report;

A sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing);

A written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment;

An essay (especially one written as an assignment);

The general estimation that the public has for a person;

To give an account or representation of in words;

Announce as the result of an investigation, or announce something to the proper authorities;

Announce one's presence;

Make known to the authorities;

Be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism;

Complain about; make a charge against;