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    [Verb]  | "re*spond" | \ ri-ˈspänd \


    1: to say something in return : make an answer

    2: to react in response

    3: to show favorable reaction


    Origin: 1572 ;

     Alteration of Middle English respounden, from Anglo-French respundre, from Latin respondēre to promise in return, answer, from re- + spondēre to promise {mat|spouse|};

    [Noun]  | "respond" 


    1: an engaged pillar supporting an arch or closing a colonnade or arcade


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English respounde, literally, reply, from Anglo-French respuns, respunt response;

    [Verb]  | "responds" 


    1: to act or behave in response (as to a stimulus or influence);


      * e.g., " ... doctors studying how the brain responds to pain "





    2: to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction;


      * e.g., " ... the students energetically participated in the discussion, responding to the teacher's questions and comments with alacrity and enthusiasm "



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    [Verb]  | "respond" 


    1: to act or behave in response (as to a stimulus or influence);


      * e.g., " ... doctors studying how the brain responds to pain "





    2: to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction;


      * e.g., " ... the students energetically participated in the discussion, responding to the teacher's questions and comments with alacrity and enthusiasm "



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    [Verb]  | "responds (to)" 


    1: as in engages (with), reacts (to);


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     [ "not responding" ]

    1: A program that decides to not work for a period of time, due to it being busy or it is processing something, and sometimes no reason at all. Also, some programs can do this for forever and literally piss you off instantly and wanting to force quit the program in Task manager or in severe cases, throw your computer out the window.

      * e.g.,  ... Mozilla Firefox (Not Responding) 

     [ "not responding" ]

    1: This thing is happening when you have pentium 1 and open google chrom.

      * e.g.,  ... Your brain.exe (not responding) 

     [ "Respond" ]

    1: To answer, to reply, to say something in return.

      * e.g.,  ... A poor example: 

     [ "Thirst Responder" ]

    1: A thirst responder is someone who follows the firefighters in on a scene of a crime or a crisis with a water bottle and they really hate that hes there. Cause he just squirts all the people in the face that are in peril and the firefighters are like we are trying to save this person. The thirst responder is like "They look thirsty to me" and he like squirts them in the face. The firefighters dont know where he came from but its a sad story when you really go back in time. The poor guy watched someone thirst to death in a building that wasnt on fire. After that he thought anyone who was in trouble is probably thirsty so he carries water and Gatorade around with him. The police just cant catch him cause hes wanted for a lot of things like not being the place where hes supposed to be

      * e.g.,  ... Jermey is such a thirst responder 

     [ "Superficial Responding" ]

    1: When someone says something to you, you ask them to repeat it and still don't have a clue about, so rather than asking them to repeat again, you stimulate a variety of different responses such as;

      * e.g.,  ... Dan: Wow thats a nice watch, how much was that? 


     [ "Superficial Responding" ]

    2: Nodding your Head

      * e.g.,  ... Ted: What? 


     [ "Superficial Responding" ]

    3: Smiling and Looking at The person

      * e.g.,  ... Dan: How much was your watch 


     [ "Superficial Responding" ]

    4: Looking Down

      * e.g.,  ... Ted: Yes *Smiles* (Superficial Responding) 


     [ "Superficial Responding" ]

    5: Agreeing


     [ "Superficial Responding" ]

    6: Looking Concerned


     [ "Superficial Responding" ]

    7: This method of reply is often useful when speaking to people with strong accents, or old people.

     [ "Thirst Responder" ]

    1: Dudes that start hitting on a girl immediately after she becomes single.

      * e.g.,  ... Bryce didn't even wait an hour after jen ended her relationship to ask her out. He's such a thirst responder. 

     [ "First Responder" ]

    1: First Responder,

      * e.g.,  ... Volunteer Fireman Bob is such a worthless asshole he calls 10 times a week begging for a keg of beer for his fireman's summer party. Why he must have heard somebody got a SSDI disability check and he's the first responder to beg for that money. 


     [ "First Responder" ]

    2: Some guy who is the first guy in line for that free pitcher of beer at the Brewery.

     [ "Dong Respond" ]

    1: When you're watching porn on your phone and someone keeps texting you, and you feel obligated to reply. A Dong Respond is that slow, one handed, typed out reply to those pesky messages interrupting your self-loving.

      * e.g.,  ... Ugh Alex just texted me, I'm gonna have to pull a Dong Respond. 

     [ "Please respond" ]

    1: Used by either autistic nerds, or ironically by alphamales. Autistic nerds will commonly say "please respond" as a panic response when texting a girl who doesn't respond within 3 minutes.

      * e.g.,  ... Guy: "Hey" 

     [ "cafeteria responding" ]

    1: When your man only reads your texts but, doesn't answer. He picks what texts he wants to answer. Like when you are at a cafeteria picking what you'd like to eat. You choose what you want to eat.

      * e.g.,  ... Ugh.... Chris is the king of cafeteria responding. My boyfriend is cafeteria responding me but, answered his best friend. 

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