React vs. Respond

React vs. Respond — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between React and Respond

Reactverb

(transitive) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.

to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome

Respondverb

To say something in return; to answer; to reply.

to respond to a question or an argument

Reactverb

(physics) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force

Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

Respondverb

(intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response

Reactverb

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

Respondverb

(ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.

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Reactverb

To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.

Respondverb

(transitive) To satisfy; to answer.

The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.

Reactverb

show a response or a reaction to something

Respondnoun

A response.

Reactverb

undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions;

The hydrogen and the oxygen react

Respondnoun

A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.

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Reactverb

act against or in opposition to;

She reacts negatively to everything I say

Respondnoun

(architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

Respondverb

show a response or a reaction to something

Respondverb

reply or respond to;

She didn't want to answeranswer the questionWe answered that we would accept the invitation

Respondverb

respond favorably or as hoped;

The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy