The Collaborative International Dictionary
Respond \Re*spond"\ (r?*sp?nd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Responded; p. pr. & vb. n. Responding.] [OF. respondre, F. r['e]pondre, fr. L. respondere, responsum; pref. re- re- + spondere to promise. See Sponsor.]
To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
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To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe.
--Buckminster.To every theme responds thy various lay.
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To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. [U.S.]
Syn: To answer; reply; rejoin. See Reply.
Wiktionary
n. response vb. (present participle of respond English)
Usage examples of "responding".
First responders assisted thousands of civilians in evacuating the towers, even as incident commanders from responding agencies lacked knowledge of what other agencies and, in some cases, their own responders were doing.
I can only state, responding to what you so courteously ask, that her name is Dulcinea, her kingdom, Toboso, which is in La Mancha, her condition must be that of princess, at the very least, for she is my queen and lady, and her beauty is supernatural, for in it one finds the reality of all the impossible and chimerical aspects of beauty which poets attribute to their ladies: her tresses are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows the arches of heaven, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her skin white as snow, and the parts that modesty hides from human eyes are such, or so I believe and understand, that the most discerning consideration can only praise them but not compare them.
I paid him, he fashioned this head, which has the property and virtue of responding to any question spoken into its ear.
I was not deceived by the one who sold you to me, O wise head, speaking head, responding head, admirable head!
He distinctly felt her tongue swell in his throat, though no responding gorge rose.
September 11, FDNY companies and chiefs responding to a fire used analog, point-to-point radios that had six normal operating channels.
The repeater system was installed at the Port Authority police desk in 5 WTC, to be activated by members of the Port Authority police when the FDNY units responding to the WTC complex so requested.
September 11, they were not prepared to comprehensively coordinate their efforts in responding to a major incident.
By 9:00, many senior FDNY leaders, including 7 of the 11 most highly ranked chiefs in the department, as well as the Commissioner and many of his deputies and assistants, had begun responding from headquarters in Brooklyn.
Port Authority police officers from the PATH, bridges, tunnels, and airport commands began responding to the WTC.
The PAPD lacked written standard operating procedures for personnel responding from outside commands to the WTC during a major incident.
Chief of Department of the NYPD ordered a second Level 4 mobilization, bringing the total number of NYPD officers responding to close to 2,000.
By 9:30, the PAPD central police desk requested that responding officers meet at West and Vesey and await further instructions.
They were hampered by not knowing how many officers were responding to the site and where those officers were operating.
It was clear that the lead response agency was the FDNY, and that the other responding local, federal, bistate, and state agencies acted in a supporting role.