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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a correct answer ▪ Lucy got fourteen out of twenty correct answers. an answering machine (= for recording telephone messages ) ▪ There’s a message on the answering machine. answer a call ▪ We’re sorry that we cannot ...
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Generally, an answer is a reply to a question . It can be solution, a retaliation or a response to it. In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense , a reply ...
Usage examples of answer.
And he has to answer for much more than aiding and abetting you with your plot to fool the old man.
I have heard thy windy talk, and this is the answer: we will neither depart, nor come down to you, but will abide our death by your hands here on this hill-side.
David waited silently, allowing Abie all the time she needed to answer his question.
If he was gravely suspected, and refused to appear when he was summoned to answer for his faith, and was therefore excommunicated and had endured that excommunication obstinately for a year, but becomes penitent, let him be admitted, and abjure all heresy, in the manner explained in the sixth method of pronouncing sentence.
Walgun, and though the place seemed deserted, an abo in a singlet and shorts eventually answered the blare of our horn.
I was aboard his ship, the way I expected him to know the answer to everything.
Appropriate training for people who have trusted access to such information should be designed around the answers to these questions.
Malipiero would often inquire from me what advantages were accruing to me from the welcome I received at the hands of the respectable ladies I had become acquainted with at his house, taking care to tell me, before I could have time to answer, that they were all endowed with the greatest virtue, and that I would give everybody a bad opinion of myself, if I ever breathed one word of disparagement to the high reputation they all enjoyed.
He answered that he was a Mahometan as he had been a Christian, and that he was not better acquainted with the Koran than he had been with the Gospel.
Dandolo asked me whether I would answer a question he would ask, the interpretation of which would belong only to him, as he was the only person acquainted with the subject of the question.
My answers were rather obscure in such matters as I was not specially acquainted with, but they were very clear concerning her disease, and my oracle became precious and necessary to her highness.
Her questions to the oracle alluded only to secret affairs which she was curious to know, and she often found truths with which I was not myself acquainted, through the answers.
When Esther and I were alone I began to compliment her, much to her delight, on the cleverness of her answer, the elegance of her style, and her boldness, for she could not be as well acquainted with French affairs as I was.
Andrea went off without answering him, laughing at the acumen still left to this cracked wit.
In the kind of universe Herbert sees, where there are no final answers, and no absolute security, adaptability in all its forms-- from engineering improvisation to social mobility to genetic variability--is essential.