Answer and Process

noun

• A statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation.
  • usage: "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics"
  • synonyms: reply, response
• A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: solution, result, resolution, solvent
• The speech act of replying to a question.
• 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.
• A nonverbal reaction.
  • usage: "his answer to any problem was to get drunk"; "their answer was to sue me"

verb

• React verbally.
  • usage: "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"
  • synonyms: reply, respond
• Respond to a signal.
  • usage: "answer the door"; "answer the telephone"
• Give the correct answer or solution to.
  • usage: "answer a question"; "answer the riddle"
• Understand the meaning of.
  • usage: "The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered"
  • synonyms: resolve
• Give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument. )
  • usage: "The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution"
• Be liable or accountable.
  • usage: "She must answer for her actions"
• Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: suffice, do, serve
• Match or correspond.
  • usage: "The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave"
• Be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of.
  • usage: "This may answer her needs"
• React to a stimulus or command.
  • usage: "The steering of my new car answers to the slightest touch"

• (n.) To be or act in return or response to.
• (v.i.) To be opposite or to act in opposition.
• (n.) Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address or the like; a reply.
• (v.i.) To make a satisfactory response or return.
• (v.i.) To be or act as an equivalent or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
• (n.) To be or act an equivalent to or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
• (n.) A reply to a change; a defense.
• (n.) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.
• (n.) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
• (n.) To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument or justification, and the like; to refute.
• (n.) To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
• (n.) To render account to or for.
• (n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
• (n.) A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
• (v.i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge) or in reply; to make response.
• (n.) To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question or to a speech, declaration, argument or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
• (n.) To atone; to be punished for.
• (v.i.) To render account or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
• (v.i.) To be or act in conformity or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
• (n.) Something done in return for or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
• (v.i.) To be or act in return.
• (v.i.) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
• (n.) To be opposite to; to face.

• (n.) A series of actions, motions or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
• (n.) A statement of events; a narrative.
• (n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
• (n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
• (n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

noun

• A particular course of action intended to achieve a result.
  • usage: "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
  • synonyms: procedure
• Psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. (
  • usage: "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
  • synonyms: cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
• A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant.
  • synonyms: summons
• A mental process that you are not directly aware of.
  • usage: "the process of denial"
  • synonyms: unconscious process
• A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant.
  • usage: "a bony process"
  • synonyms: outgrowth, appendage
• A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.
  • usage: "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
  • synonyms: physical process

verb

• Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.
  • usage: "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill"
  • synonyms: treat
• Deal with in a routine way.
  • usage: "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
• Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information.
  • usage: "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech"
• Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against.
  • usage: "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
  • synonyms: action, sue, litigate
• March in a procession.
  • usage: "They processed into the dining room"
  • synonyms: march
• Shape, form, or improve a material.
  • usage: "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
  • synonyms: work, work on
• Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.
  • usage: "He was processed by the sheriff"
  • synonyms: serve, swear out