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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
react
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
angrily
▪ Bergsson reacted angrily, pushing his head against Pearce's and then grabbing the controversial full-back by the throat.
▪ The Usenet community reacted angrily, saying that sort of thing was banned by Usenet custom.
▪ Farmers reacted angrily to the proposals for mass slaughter of sheep.
▪ Does a father react angrily when his tired, overwhelmed twelve-month-old flails out and hits him on the nose?
▪ But the Prison Officer's Association has reacted angrily.
▪ But Powergen bosses have reacted angrily to the new council demands.
▪ If you react angrily or aggressively, your child may do the same.
▪ When Citrine revealed the proposal to the Area Board chairmen, however, they reacted angrily.
badly
▪ But it reacted badly when he started on examples of government action to extend opportunity.
▪ Some mares react badly and their reproductive cycles cease or are disrupted.
▪ Chances were she would react badly.
▪ Do you react badly to criticism at work?
▪ They don't like it too hot in summer and they react badly to over-watering.
▪ Bird lovers reacted badly to earlier attempts to control the birds by poisoning them and removing nests.
▪ Others began to react badly to various chemicals at about the time they developed candidiasis.
differently
▪ Even the same person reacts differently on different occasions, depending on how fit they are and on other circumstances at that time.
▪ The letters upset them both, only they reacted differently.
▪ Had they been given a more accurate picture of what was actually taking place, would they have reacted differently?
▪ Private-sector representatives reacted differently but were hardly less bitter.
▪ Most of our congregations contain a multiplicity of people who react differently to different kinds of musical expression.
▪ Individuals who lost their faith reacted differently.
▪ It takes time to react differently.
immediately
▪ Next time the phone rings or there is a knock on the door, just pause for a moment instead of reacting immediately.
▪ When they are broken, react immediately but calmly.
▪ A piston engine reacts immediately to power, just like a car.
▪ Nelson Mandela, who was not in court, reacted immediately, insisting that his wife was innocent of any crime.
▪ You react immediately and hit the pad with a perfectly timed technique.
▪ These scouts need to be aware of new fashions as they happen so we can react immediately.
▪ Nizan did not react immediately, however.
▪ In addition, they often reacted immediately, while gastrointestinal symptoms were commonly manifested later.
negatively
▪ Not all employees are going to react negatively to a relocation abroad.
▪ Are you starting to react negatively to a person or situation?
▪ The bond market also reacted negatively to the budget impasse.
▪ Their pollsters have warned that the public understandably reacts negatively when told health benefits may be slashed.
▪ But the stock market did not react negatively to the news, taking its cue from the bond market.
▪ When this happens, your fellow employees often avoid you or react negatively to your behaviour.
positively
▪ Forth River Purification Board reacted positively yesterday to the reconsideration of the regional role.
▪ Wall Street reacted positively to the earnings report.
▪ Even my highly regrettable tendency to react positively whenever the fridge door is opened was proof against that.
▪ Always both groups reacted positively to any change in the test group conditions in whatever direction.
▪ Civil rights groups also reacted positively to the changes, but Sinn Fein seemed unimpressed.
▪ Parents may need help and training in reacting positively when their child is eating.
quickly
▪ Get used to being grabbed and reacting quickly.
▪ You need to be alert and react quickly.
▪ Sometime genuinely strong potential acquirers will not enter into such a process because they can not react quickly.
▪ But Powergen bosses have reacted quickly to the new council demands.
▪ He also reacted quickly to save after both McLoughlin and Clarke had seen efforts cleared off the line by Houghton.
▪ But private investors reacted quickly by buying equities in the small hours of yesterday morning.
▪ Sunderland reacted quickly to the set-back, with club record singing Don Goodman calmly picking his spot to equalise a minute later.
▪ The flow of adrenalin can help the mind to react quickly in a given situation.
sharply
▪ Critics of the reforms reacted sharply last night.
strongly
▪ He grabbed toys from other kids and reacted strongly to any sign of aggression from them.
▪ There is no doubt that part of the Catholic community in Britain reacted strongly to the destruction and damage of Catholic churches.
▪ Those with a particular political or religious upbringing may react strongly against that.
▪ Shares in privatised companies reacted strongly to the possibility of a Tory-dominated hung Parliament.
▪ More importantly, he had a metabolism which reacted strongly to crisis.
swiftly
▪ The authorities reacted swiftly with a smear counterattack.
▪ An investigation launched by Knowsley Borough Council found that staff had reacted swiftly and that procedures complied with current legislation.
▪ Cool foresight and a quick mind enabled him to react swiftly in an emergency.
▪ The police reacted swiftly and a man who broke through their cordon was brought down by a rugby tackle and arrested.
▪ The Embassy reacted swiftly to the disclosure, which they regarded as an improper use of Mr Lader's name.
▪ Pricing is a very flexible element in the marketing mix and enables firms to react swiftly to competitive behaviour. 20.
to
▪ Instead. these people only refer to farmers when there is news like a food scare to react to.
▪ A number of these patients are very seriously ill and appear to react to almost every imaginable food and chemical.
▪ It isn't the actual words you react to, but the different rhythm.
▪ Quicker to say, quicker to react to.
▪ This is an account of how I reacted to that very tall order.
violently
▪ Small children are encouraged to be small tyrants, to react violently if thwarted.
▪ For example, water is known to react violently with metallic sodium, another reducing medium utilized commercially.
▪ But hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone don't react violently together unless a catalyst is added.
▪ The drama erupted after a resident in the Middlesbrough hostel mixed two household substances, which reacted violently with each other.
▪ Jason Tyler tossed pierced canisters of sodium, which reacts violently with water, into the bowls in two cubicles.
▪ The regime reacted violently and furiously.
▪ The shrimp growers are reacting violently.
■ NOUN
change
▪ From the sound of it, your crush is reacting to these changes by getting involved with a more sexually experienced girl.
▪ The way the document reacts to these changes depends on two self-explanatory word-processor modes - Insert and Overwrite.
▪ Always both groups reacted positively to any change in the test group conditions in whatever direction.
▪ Civil rights groups also reacted positively to the changes, but Sinn Fein seemed unimpressed.
child
▪ Uncertain how the children might react, I thought it would perhaps come in handy if I needed to defend myself.
▪ We need to look at how a child reacts to and processes different sensations and motor patterns.
▪ Because their bodies are still growing, children react more quickly to many of the things they eat.
▪ Your goal is to help your child do more than react to her sensitivities with avoidance, anger, or controlling behavior.
▪ How will your child react when you have another baby?
▪ Reactivity Problems Attention also lags because of the way the child reacts to sensations.
▪ How do young children react to that situation?
▪ Through each sense, children not only react to the world, they also comprehend their world.
event
▪ So selection is the important basis for action: in making decisions, in choosing people, in reacting to events.
▪ We react only to events, as indicated in a previous chapter.
▪ They reacted to events, never initiating them, and this trait became an increasing liability as time passed.
▪ Most doctors are starting to understand that different people react to events in their lives differently.
▪ They concluded that people as a whole react to events and to social and economic changes in reasonable and predictable ways.
▪ That is why we all react to events differently, although it is all reacting.
▪ The conception about reacting mechanically to events is not a purely materialistic one, as it may seem at first sight.
market
▪ It is surprising that markets did not react sooner to this.
▪ The bond market also reacted negatively to the budget impasse.
▪ As they have often done, financial markets over-reacted to something that was going on in the real world.
▪ But the stock market did not react negatively to the news, taking its cue from the bond market.
▪ Few can have been surprised that the markets reacted by marking sterling down.
▪ Last year, the shares traded in the 14p to 4p range as the market reacted to takeover rumours and profit warnings.
news
▪ The staff have reacted stoically to the news.
▪ But the stock market did not react negatively to the news, taking its cue from the bond market.
▪ In partisan terms, people reacted against television news, alleging antagonistic bias; but they reacted Very differently towards the press.
▪ How do Jimmy and the guys react to this bad news?
▪ Those who remained uninterested in politics reacted by avoiding the news during the campaign.
people
▪ Many people react adversely to gluten, present in wheat flour.
▪ I love how people react when he walks into a restaurant.
▪ So how did people react to these findings?
▪ Arline: How people in Los Angeles react to every jury-trial verdict?
▪ No two old people will react the same way, so no standard procedure can be recommended.
▪ Most doctors are starting to understand that different people react to events in their lives differently.
▪ There are enough angry and bitter people to react to any call to insurrection.
▪ They concluded that people as a whole react to events and to social and economic changes in reasonable and predictable ways.
pressure
▪ He said they were reacting to public pressure, and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening.
▪ The president, like every other leader, reacts to pressure.
situation
▪ Border has a history of reacting to situations before considering all the consequences.
▪ Temperament can be described as the general consistency with which an individual reacts to certain situations.
▪ Would you so react to the particular situation which confronts us now, if you were not applying the standard mechanically?
▪ How would he react to a nonsensical situation such as this, and one which was completely outside his own control?
▪ Corals and anemones are sensitive creatures and react to any stressful situation by closing down to avoid the cause of their stress.
▪ How do young children react to that situation?
▪ How would he react to his situation?
▪ You may not choose to react to situations which damage your self-esteem in the same way as Jane.
system
▪ Foam began to spread through the air as the fire-fighting systems reacted automatically to the emergency.
▪ Thus the eye exists in a body with a central nervous system, capable of reacting to information the eye provides.
▪ We also worked out in the end a system whereby Brian would react to my jump rather than I react to his throw.
▪ Managers of existing systems reacted to these proposals with truculent hostility.
▪ His system reacted to contact with her in ways he had never experienced with Maud, or with any other woman.
way
▪ Whichever way you react to Rottweilers, you will lose.
▪ Then he could think of a way to react that would help him get what he wanted without getting him into trouble.
▪ We each have our own highly individual ways of reacting to the stresses of life and of maintaining our inner harmony.
▪ What seemed to have been most important was the way the workers reacted to the changes-their attitude.
▪ This responsiveness to body language also affects the way horses react to humans.
▪ This now appears to be one way the brain reacts to caffeine.
▪ I know, because of the way he reacts to seeing Salvo and me happy with our new families.
▪ He remembered the way Fontaine had reacted to him and the commitments they had made at the diner.
ways
▪ People react in various ways to the news that they have cancer.
▪ Temperament and Activity People react in temperamentally different ways to the challenges posed by change.
▪ Different people reacted in different ways.
■ VERB
expect
▪ How had he expected her to react to his betrayal - with laughter, perhaps, or nonchalance?
▪ If we choose to perceive some one in a negative light, we expect and react to their negative behaviors.
▪ It was how he would have expected Frankie to react.
▪ But, briefly, therapists must expect themselves to react.
▪ Maybe we can now expect the Government to react with some form of moratorium, at least until after April 9.
▪ However, the skin does tend to become more sensitive when you're expecting and may react adversely to certain products.
see
▪ She looked to see how Midnight was reacting.
▪ It is fascinating to see how kids react and develop.
▪ Give a confidence or two and see how positively they react.
▪ He wanted to see how we would react when everything else was going wrong.
▪ As if he'd said something he knew he shouldn't have, to see how I would react.
▪ You might just slip in a reference to pipes or to attics in your next conversation. See how he reacts.
▪ He watches the man closely to see how he reacts when he has to talk about this appalling figure.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A shot was fired, and the police reacted by firing into the crowd.
▪ Emma is not behaving very reasonably nowadays. I think she's reacting against her teachers' strictness.
▪ How did Dad react when he found out Vicky was pregnant?
▪ How did she react when you told her the news?
▪ How did your parents react when you told them you were going to marry Jim?
▪ It's hard not to react badly when your kids are playing up.
▪ Many gays reacted with outrage at the tactic of "outing" senior public figures.
▪ Ned reacted angrily to Bill's comments.
▪ People reacted to the speech in different ways.
▪ The chairman reacted angrily to the report and said it would make it much harder to reach a deal.
▪ When children perform poorly at school, parents often react with anger.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cool foresight and a quick mind enabled him to react swiftly in an emergency.
▪ Foam began to spread through the air as the fire-fighting systems reacted automatically to the emergency.
▪ How will your best friend react?
▪ Investors reacted unfavorably to the announcement and pushed shares down as much as 3. 9 percent.
▪ Nobody reacts much when older men become fathers.
▪ Only two persons in the audience reacted to this sentence, but to them it was like being doused with ice-cold water.
▪ Suddenly, before the competition could react, Snapple was in stores all across the country.
▪ The authorities reacted swiftly with a smear counterattack.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
React

React \Re*act"\ (r[=e]*[a^]kt"), v. t. To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

React

React \Re*act"\ (r[-e]*[a^]kt"), v. i.

  1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

  2. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
react

1640s, "to exert, as a thing acted upon, an opposite action upon the agent," from re- + act (v.). Chemical sense is from 1944. Related: Reacted; reacting (1610s). For sense development, see reaction. Meaning "perform again" (often re-act) is from 1650s.

Wiktionary
react

vb. 1 To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact. 2 To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state. 3 To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

WordNet
react

  1. v. show a response or a reaction to something [syn: respond]

  2. undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"

  3. act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to everything I say" [syn: oppose]

Wikipedia
REACT

REACT or React may refer to:

  • in computer science
    • React (JavaScript library), a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, from Facebook
    • ReactOS, an open source operating system compatible with Microsoft Windows
  • in arts and entertainment
    • React (band), a 1990s American boys band made of Tim Cruz and Daniel Matrium
    • React (The Fixx album), a 1987 live album by the band The Fixx
    • React (Erick Sermon album), a 2002 album by rapper Erick Sermon
      • React (Erick Sermon song), a song from the album
    • React (Robert Rich and Ian Boddy album), a 2008 album by electronic musicians Robert Rich and Ian Boddy
    • React (book), originally Reacciona, a 2011 Spanish-language book
    • React Music Limited, a 1990s London based dance record label
    • React (media franchise), a metaseries of web videos created by the Fine Brothers which includes Kids React, Teens React, Elders React, YouTubers React, and Adults React, as well as a YouTube channel with other shows featuring regulars from the first three React series
      • React to That, a TV series based on the first two React series that was broadcast on Nickelodeon
  • Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting System, the current command and control system of the United States for nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles
  • Radio Emergency Associated Communication Teams, a volunteer radio emergency service across the United States and Canada
  • Remote Electronically Activated Control Technology belt or REACT belt, a restraint device
  • Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, a partnership of agencies against computer crime in California, USA, established in 1997 by the California Department of Justice
  • Research and Education Automatically Controlled Telescope, a telescope at Fenton Hill Observatory, New Mexico, USA
  • React - The Anti-Counterfeiting Network, a not-for-profit cooperative association fighting the trade in counterfeit goods
React (The Fixx album)

React is the first official live album, and fifth overall, by British new wave band The Fixx, released in 1987. It was recorded during two concerts in Canada in 1986 in the band's tour in support of their album Walkabout. The album contains three new studio tracks: "Big Wall", "Rules and Schemes", and "Don't Be Scared", which was released as a single. Also included is a re-recorded studio version of " Red Skies".

React (Erick Sermon album)

React is Erick Sermon's fifth album. It received mediocre critical and commercial success despite featuring the single "React" which was a Rhythmic Top 40 and Billboard Hot 100 hit. John Bush of Allmusic describes it as being a "hardcore follow-up to his 2001 crossover hit Music" as well as commenting on its "dark tone" and "raw raps".[]

React (Robert Rich and Ian Boddy album)

React (2008) is the third collaborative album by electronic musicians Robert Rich and Ian Boddy. Like their previous collaborations Outpost and Lithosphere, this album was released as a limited edition of 2000 copies.

React (song)

"React" is the lead single released from Onyx's third album, Shut 'Em Down. It featured Onyx affiliates X-1, Bonifucco and Still Livin' and a then unknown 50 Cent in his first official appearance on a song. React was released on June 2, 1998 through Def Jam Recordings and was produced by Bud'da. This was the more successful of the two singles from the album, peaking at #62 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and #44 on the Hot Rap Singles. The song samples the Slick Rick song "Mona Lisa". Allmusic highlighted the song itself when they reviewed the album.

React (band)

REACT was an American boy band made up of Tim Cruz and Daniel Meteryeon.

REACT had a Top 10 hit on the dance charts with "Let's Go All The Way". After REACT disbanded, its member Tim Cruz joined yet another boy band, a success internationally, particularly in Germany called B3. B3 had a string of hits between 2001 and 2004 and now Tim Cruz is signed as a solo act to Fearless Management.

React (Erick Sermon song)

"React" is the lead single from Erick Sermon's fifth studio album, React. The song was produced by Just Blaze and featured Sermon's fellow Def Squad member Redman. The song also appears on the soundtrack to the 2003 film, Honey.

"React" became Sermon's second top-40 hit, reaching No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song sampled the Sahir Ludhianvi written song "Chandhi Ka Badan", which was performed by Meena Kapoor, on the song's hook. The translation of the sampled line is "If someone wants to commit suicide, so what can you do?" to which Sermon responds "Whatever she said, then I'm that". The use of the sample drew criticism from the Hindi-speaking community.

React (book)

React (from Spanish: Reacciona) is a book by Rosa María Artal published in Spain in 2011 by Aguilar, which compiles articles by José Luis Sampedro, Baltasar Garzón, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Javier Pérez de Albéniz, Javier López Facal, Carlos Martínez Alonso, Ignacio Escolar, Rosa María Artal, Angels Martínez Castells, Juan Torres Lopez and Lourdes Lucia. The book, edited by journalist Rosa María Artal, is intended to comment on the political crisis that exists in today's society -particularly in Spain- and the need for a social response to the corruption which has led to the 2011 financial, economic and political crisis. It emphasizes the fact that the concentrations of political powers are becoming increasingly distant from the citizenship.

React (JavaScript library)

React (sometimes styled React.js or ReactJS) is an open-source JavaScript library providing a view for data rendered as HTML. React views are typically rendered using components that contain additional components specified as custom HTML tags. React promises programmers a model in which subcomponents cannot directly affect enclosing components ("data flows down"); efficient updating of the HTML document when data changes; and a clean separation between components on a modern single-page application.

It is maintained by Facebook, Instagram and a community of individual developers and corporations. According to JavaScript analytics service Libscore, React is currently being used on the websites of Netflix, Imgur, Bleacher Report, Feedly, Airbnb, SeatGeek, HelloSign, and others.

As of March 2016, React and React Native are Facebook's top two open-source projects by number of stars on GitHub, and React is the 6th most starred project of all time on GitHub.

React (media franchise)

React (sometimes stylized in all caps as REACT) is a media franchise used by the Fine Brothers consisting of several online series centering on a group of individuals reacting to viral videos, trends, video games, film trailers, or music videos. The franchise was launched with the YouTube debut of Kids React in October 2010, and then grew to encompass four more series uploaded on the Fine Brothers' primary YouTube channel, a separate YouTube channel with various reaction-related content, as well as a television series titled React to That.

In 2016, the duo announced React World, a program and channel in which they would license the format of their React shows to creators, which led to widespread negative reception from viewers and fellow content creators, as well as confusion about what their format is. This eventually lead to The Fine Bros. to removing all videos related to React World, essentially pulling the plug on React World.

Usage examples of "react".

I began to wonder what it was like for Aboriginal people with really dark skin and broad features, how did Australians react to them?

She paused and waited to see how I would react and then I realized that she was talking about Aden Fiske and not the dean or someone at Caldwell College, where I teach.

Why in space was the Adjutor reacting so violently to what was in reality a very minor situation?

The sympathetic system, and the adrenal medulla, too, are not necessary for life, except insofar as failure to react properly to an emergency may be fatal.

When confronted with a problem, he has generally reacted with aggression and justified his offensives with distortions and convoluted logic.

If it were a case of agnosia, the patient would now be seeing what he had always seen, that is to say, there would have been no diminution of his visual powers, his brain would simply have been incapable of recognising a chair wherever there happened to be a chair, in other words, he would continue to react correctly to the luminous stimuli leading to the optic nerve, but, to use simple terms within the grasp of the layman, he would have lost the capacity to know what he knew and, moreover, to express it.

KX3 reacts with one of the hormones overproduced in an anorectic body.

It seemed as if nothing could rouse or sting her out of the dull apathy into which she had reacted after the desperate excitement of the preceding day.

Inside the wet tissues of the body, the two chemicals react, and they precipitate hydroxyl apatite, a tough, rigid, natural constituent of actual human bone.

I want to show him what she calls the Arthen Stone, and see how he reacts.

A study of hyperactive children at the University of Toronto found that they reacted the same to sucrose, aspartame, and saccharin.

By itself, neither was particularly important or active, but together they reacted with each other atomically to release a tremendous amount of raw heat and comparatively little unwanted radiation.

Before Auger could react, he had expertly pinned her against the door and was holding one of her eyes open and aiming the end of the pen into it.

But even so she had to notice how the pilgrims reacted to the sight of Miss Azimuth, how they cleared the way for her, how they stepped aside out of the trail and put their knuckles to their foreheads.

My dear Dubois, who began to love me because I made her happy, felt my melancholy react on herself, and tried to make me talk.