Crossword clues for reply
reply
- Give feedback
- Talk back?
- Offer feedback
- E-mail program button
- Answer an e-vite
- Offer feedback, in a way
- Email icon
- Wedding invitation request
- Not leave someone on read
- Left-facing arrow, in an email
- Interrogator's request
- Interrogator's expectation
- Heed an RSVP
- Gmail option
- Gmail button indicated by a left-facing arrow
- Email function
- Email back
- Continue an email thread
- Certain email message
- Answer an email
- "Who's there?" to "Knock knock!"
- ___ all (email option sometimes causing office problems)
- ___ all (email button)
- E-mail option
- It's much requested
- Answer an invitation
- Come back
- Email option
- Thread part
- The speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
- Response
- Rejoin
- Comply with an R.S.V.P.
- Write back
- Acknowledge an R.S.V.P.
- Retort
- Repartee
- Return gunfire
- E-mail button
- Respond to an email
- Echo
- Get back
- E-mail command
- Email button
- Email command
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reply \Re*ply"\ (r?-pl?"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Replied (-pl?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Replying.] [OE. replien, OF. replier, F. r['e]pliquer, fr. L. replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Replica.]
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To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
--Rom. ix. 20. (Law) To answer a defendant's plea.
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Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.
Syn: To answer; respond; rejoin.
Reply \Re*ply"\, n.; pl. Replies (-pl?z"). [See Reply, v. i., and cf. Replica.] That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
Syn: Answer; rejoinder; response.
Usage: Reply, Rejoinder, Answer. A reply is a distinct response to a formal question or attack in speech or writing. A rejoinder is a second reply (a reply to a reply) in a protracted discussion or controversy. The word answer is used in two senses, namely (1), in the most general sense of a mere response; as, the answer to a question; or (2), in the sense of a decisive and satisfactory confutation of an adversary's argument, as when we speak of a triumphant answer to the speech or accusations of an opponent. Here the noun corresponds to a frequent use of the verb, as when we say. ``This will answer (i.e., fully meet) the end in view;'' ``It answers the purpose.''
Reply \Re*ply"\, v. t.
To return for an answer.
--Milton.
Lords, vouchsafe
To give me hearing what I shall reply.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to make an answer," from Old French replier "to reply, turn back," from Late Latin replicare "to reply, repeat," in classical Latin "fold back, fold over, bend back," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + plicare "to fold" (see ply (v.1)). Latin literal sense of "to fold back" is attested from mid-15c. in English but is not now used. Modern French répliquer (Middle French replier) is directly from Late Latin. Related: Replied; replying.
1550s, from reply (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A written or spoken response; part of a conversation. 2 Something given in reply. vb. 1 (context transitive intransitive English) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer. 2 (context intransitive English) To act or gesture in response. 3 (context intransitive English) To repeat something back; to echo.
WordNet
n. a statement (either spoken or written) that is made in 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" [syn: answer, response]
the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange; "he growled his reply" [syn: response]
[also: replied]
Wikipedia
The reply is a response by plaintiff to defendant's answer. A reply occurs only when defendant has asserted a counterclaim or the court has ordered a reply.
It is important to keep in mind that "plaintiff" in this context may also refer to an impleaded party. So, if a defendant impleads a party, this new party is the third-party defendant and the original defendant is the third-party plaintiff. The third-party plaintiff must file a complaint on the third-party defendant, who then must answer. The court may order a reply to this third-party defendant's answer.
Category:Legal terms
A reply is a statement or acknowledgment made in response to an interrogative question, request or comment. Replies are communicated in a variety of ways, the most common being spoken or written, and act as a way of conveying relevant information and continuing a conversational exchange.
A simple reply can take the form of a single word, for example "yes" or "no", or can be expressed via body language, such as nodding the head, winking, shaking the head, et cetera.
Reply is a set of three Korean drama series produced from 2012 to 2016 by tvN.
Usage examples of "reply".
Rynst, and he but replies that eastern Cyador will fall, should the Accursed Forest slip its wards.
She wanted to protect her against herself and questioned the advisability of printing some of her replies.
You replied, advising me, and prescribing a course of treatment, which you sent to me.
He made no intimation at the time of the proposition, nor did he in his reply allude at all to that suggestion of mine.
On the 6th of September he said he had before stated in the hand-bill that he held an assignment dated May 20th, 1828, which in reply I pronounced to be false, and referred to the hand-bill for the truth of what I said.
I yelled to Loren to get the antivenin out of the drawer in back, lost his reply as the dizziness and confusion hit me.
I hasted to take her my reply in my own person, and promised not to neglect her, assuring her that at all hazards she might rely on me.
Harruel was so astounded by what Sachkor had said and by the way he had said it that the words of his reply clotted in his throat.
Finally, his tone holding a mixture of embarrassment and awkwardness, Barnet replied.
Countess and Mademoiselle Bearn, having looked, for a moment, with surprise, on her dejected countenance, began, as usual, to talk of trifles, while the eyes of Lady Blanche asked much of her friend, who could only reply by a mournful smile.
He brought his attention back to Benj, who had not paused for a reply.
Lakshmi replied, calling up an image of a heavyset, bespectacled man with long grey hair.
The reply of the Greek betrays a sentiment, which prudence, and even gratitude, should have taught him to suppress.
I turned a suspicious eye upon my friend, the Bonze, to whose indiscretions, I thought, I was indebted for the quick reply.
Cranston grinned in reply and followed the bent figure of Bouton down the hall.