Definition of answer

"answer" in the noun sense

1. answer, reply, response

a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to 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"

2. solution, answer, result, resolution, solvent

a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

"they were trying to find a peaceful solution"

"the answers were in the back of the book"

"he computed the result to four decimal places"

3. answer

the speech act of replying to a question

4. answer

the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims

5. answer

a nonverbal reaction

"his answer to any problem was to get drunk"

"their answer was to sue me"

"answer" in the verb sense

1. answer, reply, respond

react verbally

"She didn't want to answer"

"answer the question"

"We answered that we would accept the invitation"

2. answer

respond to a signal

"answer the door"

"answer the telephone"

3. answer

give the correct answer or solution to

"answer a question"

"answer the riddle"

4. answer, resolve

understand the meaning of

"The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered"

5. answer

give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument

"The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution"

6. answer

be liable or accountable

"She must answer for her actions"

7. suffice, do, answer, serve

be sufficient be adequate, either in quality or quantity

"A few words would answer"

"This car suits my purpose well"

"Will $100 do?"

"A `B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"

"Nothing else will serve"

8. answer

match or correspond

"The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave"

9. answer

be satisfactory for meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of

"This may answer her needs"

10. answer

react to a stimulus or command

"The steering of my new car answers to the slightest touch"

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Quotations for answer

Let the principal answer. [ Law ]

No answer is also an answer. [ Proverb ]

The shortest answer is doing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Never answer an anonymous letter. [ Yogi Berra ]

Our life must answer for our faith. [ Thomas Wilson ]

How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night.
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, over lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light. [ Moore ]

All men, well interrogated, answer well. [ Plato ]

The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist. [ Tennyson ]

But what fate does, let fate answer for. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

You may bring up the body to make answer. [ Law Writ ]

A soft answer bids a furioso put up his sword. [ Proverb ]

Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,
Had each a brother's interest in his heart. [ Cowper ]

Thou need'st not answer; thy confession speaks,
Already reddening in thy guilty cheeks. [ Byron ]

O love, they die, in yon rich sky.
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul.
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. [ Tennyson ]

It is not every question that deserves an answer. [ Proverb ]

When the demand is a jest, the answer is a scoff. [ Proverb ]

His words seem'd oracles
That pierced their bosoms; and each man would turn
And gaze in wonder on his neighbour's face,
That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him.
You could have heard
The beating of your pulses while he spoke. [ George Croly ]

The praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. [ Gurnall ]

Love without return is like a question without an answer. [ German Proverb ]

Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer. [ Bible ]

It is time enough to answer questions when they are asked. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He who will not answer to the rudder, must answer to the rocks. [ Herve ]

No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger. [ La Roche ]

If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer. [ Yogi Berra ]

We do that in our zeal our calm moment would be afraid to answer. [ Scott ]

Fools may ask more in an hour, than wise men can answer in seven. [ Proverb ]

A fool may speer (ask) more questions than a wise man can answer. [ Scotch Proverb ]

The man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his courage. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

No, you didn't wake me up. I had to get up to answer the phone anyway. [ Yogi Berra ]

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. [ Alcott ]

To persevere in one's duty, and to be silent, is the best answer to calumny. [ George Washington ]

I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question. [ Yogi Berra ]

The building fitted accurately to answer its end will turn out to be admirable. [ Moller ]

What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing? Answer: A great man's promise. [ Proverb ]

Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact. [ Law Maxim ]

He that makes a question where there is no doubt, must take an answer where there is no reason. [ Proverb ]

Books are a sort of dumb teachers; they cannot answer sudden questions, or explain present doubts. [ J. Watts ]

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. [ Bible ]

It is a blessing to be fair, yet such a blessing as if the soul answer not to the face, may lead to a curse. [ Bishop Hall ]

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. [ Socrates ]

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence. [ Abraham Coles ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker? I don't know, was the answer, what was the name of his other eye? [ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

answer in Scrabble®

The word answer is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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answer in Words With Friends™

The word answer is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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