noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rapid response
▪ He praised state health authorities for their rapid response to the crisis.
considered response
▪ The committee is meeting to prepare a considered response to the problem.
cool response
▪ My proposal met with a cool response.
elicited...response
▪ When her knock elicited no response, she opened the door and peeped in.
emotional response
▪ an emotional response to the problem
enthusiastic response
▪ The proposal has received an enthusiastic response from the union.
immediate response
▪ Our immediate response to the attack was sheer horror.
inappropriate behaviour/response/language etc
lukewarm response
▪ His idea got only a lukewarm response from the committee.
negative answer/reply/response
▪ He gave a negative answer without any explanation.
provoke a reaction/response
▪ The report provoked a furious reaction from staff.
quick response
▪ We need a quick response from the government.
triggered...response
▪ His action triggered a massive response from the government.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
angry
▪ It earned an angry response from a teachers' union leader, Nigel de Gruchy.
▪ My own uncertainty in defending my position at the time made me that much more adamant and angry in response.
▪ There are so many ways in which our intolerance will trigger an angry response either in ourselves or others.
▪ Contesting that remark would only provoke an angry response from the boy.
▪ As can happen all too often, there's an angry response, and arrests are made.
appropriate
▪ The anger is an appropriate response to what the writer describes, a public statement about conditions of life or death.
▪ An appropriate response, it seemed, would have been for the company to redouble its efforts to improve its own offering.
▪ When the child is communicating fluently and clearly, the most appropriate adult response may be to listen and encourage.
▪ Gale is away from the phone, but he will listen to the recording later and make an appropriate response.
▪ Theory suggests that an exchange rate change may be the appropriate response to a country specific shock.
▪ Although she had sensed that a fiasco like this was inevitable, Amanda fumbled for an appropriate response.
▪ Depending upon this determination, we develop appropriate emotional responses.
▪ It is competition, however, which forces businesses and resource suppliers to make appropriate responses.
direct
▪ But caution had reasserted itself, a direct response to his mockery.
▪ Gamble, announced last week that it would follow a direct response model for Web advertising.
▪ You rarely see a direct response ad which does not put a clear offer - and the price - in its headline.
▪ She nursed them, but they talked to him, vocalising in direct response to his cooing-even as tiny infants.
▪ Furthermore, these forms of behaviour are not simply direct responses to external stimuli.
▪ This is, clearly, a pretty naive view, even of a direct response campaign.
▪ The first is through what is called direct response - where people volunteer information about themselves.
▪ In poetry, it is the student's direct response which is called for.
emotional
▪ But the emotional response to his death has gone beyond the standard mourning of a pop idol.
▪ Organizational fears are emotional responses to core beliefs.
▪ Specific screening campaigns, however, should be based on a logical, not purely emotional, response to tragic cases.
▪ The characters have a heightened and highly emotional response to events, actions and sentiments.
▪ But the androids have developed their own emotional responses and therefore they suffer as the humans do.
▪ Mood disorders such as mania and depression involve inappropriate emotional responses.
▪ Depending upon this determination, we develop appropriate emotional responses.
▪ Irony is used here to mock an emotional response, identified as always female, always stupid.
immediate
▪ David Blunkett's immediate response was absolutely right.
▪ There was immediate positive response to this published version of the story.
▪ His immediate response was to appeal.
▪ The immediate responses to complaints made by Justice Department officials in the new administration seemed cold-blooded and callous.
▪ At times, these images may be so powerful as to demand an immediate response.
▪ The immediate response was that Lewis had not deserved to lose and would be exercising his right to an immediate rematch.
▪ This mailing resulted in an immediate response by over 20 companies, and further enquiries on an on-going basis.
▪ A librarian may build up sections of the stock that he feels are important even though there is no immediate response in terms of issues.
immune
▪ It is known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit, so we have proceeded cautiously.
▪ Hence the delay between the onset of flu and the immune response that cures it.
▪ Significant numbers of larvae reach the lungs and migrate to the bronchioles where they are killed by the animal's immune response.
▪ The reason: The vitamin is involved in raising a healthy immune response.
▪ It is clear, however, that the immune response in preventive and therapeutic vaccines differs in fundamental ways.
▪ This immune response leads to the destruction of the beta cells that make insulin.
▪ Furthermore, immune responses to tubercle bacilli are extraordinarily complicated.
initial
▪ When they were first introduced they were an enormous boon to the farmer and the initial response was almost euphoric.
▪ Robert Kennedy, however, continued to insist on a less belligerent initial response.
▪ Twenty thousand copies were distributed around Birmingham, and Mr Wiseman says that the initial response has been extremely encouraging.
▪ The initial responses from the government suggest that there may indeed be a reckoning ahead.
▪ The initial response to this situation came in 1971.
▪ Bush's initial response has been to lurch to the right.
▪ If we look at the initial response to Maastricht, the omens are not wholly encouraging.
▪ For some, the initial response is a mild fear reaction; it passes quickly.
negative
▪ Where there is a definite negative response put 0 percent.
▪ Some Quakers began to denounce slavery beyond their circle in society at large, and they drew negative response for doing so.
▪ On my negative but friendly response they asked if I knew I was trespassing.
▪ But Dole countered with a heavily negative response.
▪ This negative response created great distress to Mrs X as she has her heart set on becoming an embalmer.
▪ The intended result of such treatment is to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption by producing a negative response to alcohol.
▪ Few things can be more guaranteed to create a negative response than the sight of husband and wife sparring in public.
▪ Behavior eliciting a negative response decreased in frequency.
positive
▪ Nevertheless, teachers may improve their effectiveness by increasing the frequency of positive responses while reducing the negative.
▪ Response sheets were sent out to these 200 with a covering letter from the agency concerned and 85 positive responses were received.
▪ I never expected such a positive response from Lynne.
▪ She asked organic producers if they would be interested in a market and received enough positive responses to go ahead.
▪ In a study of terminal cancer patients, the positive response was even higher.
▪ The increase was a positive response to a strategic initiative.
quick
▪ So when the speaker was talking rapidly with a lot of energy she would listen with obvious interest, excitement and quick responses.
▪ They make quick changes and responses on the spur of the moment.
▪ Her quick response made him feel more quick, as if in some flattering way she was complimenting him.
▪ The quick response exemplified the aggressive way Republicans have sought to put the best face on the investigation into Gingrich.
▪ Your quick response in an emergency could be a life-saver for your child.
▪ Figure 1. 7 illustrates the various steps of the quick response chain.
▪ This has its problems, but it does allow a quick response to members' requests for topics.
▪ His former sparkle and quick response were missing.
rapid
▪ Get rapid responses to queries people raise in their staff meetings.
▪ That kind of rapid response will not be available on the space station, because the shuttle will be docked.
▪ This ideally matches the requirements of the servos and ensures a smooth and rapid response.
▪ D.. Augment rapid response capabilities for vaccine delivery and expand evaluation of vaccine efficacy and the cost effectiveness of vaccination programs.
▪ The gentle and yet rapid response that one achieves has to be experienced to be understood.
▪ Duty and intake systems to detect incipient problems early and to provide a rapid response. 3.
▪ Coun Hughes urged Mr Threlfall to consider a rapid response unit to deal with emergencies.
▪ This allows a rapid response to any divergences from expectations and for counter action to be agreed.
■ NOUN
rate
▪ This is exceptional: response rates of 10 percent and under are not unusual if postal responses are required.
▪ There was a response rate of over 80 percent from the staff.
▪ Since it went on PROFs the response rate is up to 98%.
▪ Data are currently available for 51 patients showing a 51% response rate that included six complete responses.
▪ Discussion Unbiased estimates of dependency levels in the different sectors can be achieved only by high enumeration and response rates.
▪ The main factor influencing response rate is whether the survey is postal or personal.
▪ According to a response prediction model, the observed response rate was not related to the selection of patients likely to respond.
▪ This provided an overall response rate of 58 percent.
■ VERB
consider
▪ Later in the book we will consider alternative responses based on these intuitions.
▪ It is not necessary for changes to occur in each of the three areas to consider a significant response as having occurred.
▪ They might then be asked to consider their response if the soldiers arrive in Nazareth.
▪ Sister Mary paused to consider her response.
▪ Decision-making, by considering alternative responses to their social, distress, leading to new forms of social performance.
▪ The existence of a mark-up has to be taken into account when considering the response to a corporate tax.
▪ He has already done so in respect of civil non-matrimonial legal aid and is considering the responses to that.
elicit
▪ This question elicits three responses from officials.
▪ You may attempt to be starkly one-sided to elicit a response.
▪ When that elicited no response she opened it and peeped in.
▪ Manion continued to stroll through the room, eliciting more responses.
▪ He could take her upstairs now, try slowly to elicit some response from that virginal body.
▪ The goal is simply to elicit a response and build on it.
▪ It is not entirely surprising that Wagner's gift of the Tristan poem elicited no response.
▪ Interviews conducted by the consultant with a sample of twenty-four employees elicit a positive response to team meetings.
produce
▪ Yet there is nothing inherent in the nature of work to produce such responses.
▪ On the other hand, sensitivity to feedback can produce cowardly responses.
▪ Similar circumstances and problems often produce similar responses.
▪ But unlike prehistoric man, you have far fewer ways to release the energy produced by the stress response.
▪ And the fitter you become, the more intense the load has to be to produce that response.
▪ The intended result of such treatment is to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption by producing a negative response to alcohol.
▪ Reminiscence can produce a lot more responses, because you're tapping into a person's past which is theirs alone.
▪ Or is it more akin to mechanics whereby a given stimulus produces an automatic response?
receive
▪ The Institute has received more than 250 responses to the document, which are currently being analysed.
▪ And indeed, he has received many responses.
▪ One hundred and twenty-nine replies were received - a good response which has proved very useful.
▪ He received responses from 852 critical care nurses.
▪ He did, first of all, tap on the flat door but then, receiving no response, opened it.
▪ Netscape Navigator lets you send mail, but can not receive responses.
require
▪ This is exceptional: response rates of 10 percent and under are not unusual if postal responses are required.
▪ It changes your perspective immediately, because it requires new and different responses from you.
▪ The Development Corporation require a response by 15 January 1992 at the latest.
▪ The earthquake becomes, for him, an inconvenience that requires a sporting response.
▪ Typically the various stimuli are presented concurrently, each associated with a different outcome or requiring a different response.
▪ Smith is above all a performer who requires disciplined response.
▪ The challenges facing schools are considered in detail throughout this book but in essence they require a management response.
▪ Then he gave Kramer a look that clearly required a response.
trigger
▪ Could she have triggered some unwanted response in this mysterious man, entirely by accident?
▪ The book, Golf in the Kingdom, triggered responses I had not expected.
▪ Just a few molecules were enough to trigger a severe response.
▪ It will be made of a string of cocaine molecules that triggers an immune antibody response.
▪ Just seeing me there would trigger thief responses of some one like Gharr.
▪ It triggers a response intended to freeze the organization at the present point in its development.
▪ There are so many ways in which our intolerance will trigger an angry response either in ourselves or others.
▪ The Powell speech and the dockers' march triggered a response.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
immune response/reaction
▪ Because histoplasmosis can mount an immune response, skin tests are often done.
▪ Discussion Coeliac disease probably represents an aberrant immune response by antigen specific T cells of the small intestine to certain cereal peptides.
▪ It is known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit, so we have proceeded cautiously.
▪ Many patients have a strong family history of allergies, which are genetic and involve excessive immune reaction.
▪ Other molecules, the happens, also generate an immune response.
▪ Significant numbers of larvae reach the lungs and migrate to the bronchioles where they are killed by the animal's immune response.
▪ The reason: The vitamin is involved in raising a healthy immune response.
▪ This immune response leads to the destruction of the beta cells that make insulin.
mixed reaction/response/reviews etc
▪ As its image as an independent search for truth has changed, scientists have had mixed reactions.
▪ Carrick's captaincy received mixed reviews.
▪ Central Florida school leaders gave the proposed passing scores mixed reviews Wednesday.
▪ Math Blaster 1 and 2 from Davidson got mixed reviews.
▪ The campaign received mixed reviews inside and outside Hollywood, with some accusing Jackson of bad timing.
▪ The seventeenth edition met with mixed reactions.
▪ When asked how beneficial the training had been there was a somewhat mixed response.
▪ When Gore was the Democratic front-runner for the presidential election, his satellite drew a sharply mixed reaction.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Sure. Why not?" was his response to most of Billie's suggestions.
▪ "You've persuaded me," she laughed, amazed at her own response.
▪ I mailed the letter on Monday and had a response already on Friday.
▪ I wrote to them a month ago but haven't gotten a response yet.
▪ In response to local demand, we will be opening this store from nine till seven on Sundays.
▪ The decision provoked an angry response from local residents.
▪ The story has provoked a strong response from the Chinese.
▪ Tina's outburst was a delayed response to her husband's behaviour the week before.
▪ Wagner's responses showed that he had thought carefully about the issues.
▪ We've tried to include Susan in our social activities, but we get no response.
▪ Write your responses to the questions on the back of the sheet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ General manager Michael Prendergast said he was amazed at the response to the job vacancies.
▪ His response to questions is bland enough, but Sullivan reckoned he was reacting guiltily, not telling the whole truth.
▪ Nevertheless, teachers may improve their effectiveness by increasing the frequency of positive responses while reducing the negative.
▪ Sales are so grim they are offering individual game tickets, although the response has been tepid.
▪ The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' likely response is to do as little as possible.
▪ The Secretary of State's response to the Region's submission has accepted the need for these road proposals.