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answer Noun

— An answer is something that someone says after another person asks (says) a question. The answer to your question is "no". Question: "How old are you?" Answer: "I'm 12 years old." — An answer is the solution to something. I found the answer to the mathematics exercise immediately.

answer Verb

— To respond. He answers all my questions.

answer

— verb react verbally She didn't want to answer answer the question We answered that we would accept the invitation — noun (= reply) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to 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 — noun (= solution, result) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem they were trying to find a peaceful solution the answers were in the back of the book he computed the result to four decimal places — noun the speech act of replying to a question — verb respond to a signal answer the door answer the telephone — verb give the correct answer or solution to answer a question answer the riddle — verb understand the meaning of The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered — verb give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution — verb react to a stimulus or command The steering of my new car answers to the slightest touch — verb be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of This may answer her needs — verb be liable or accountable She must answer for her actions — verb match or correspond The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave — noun the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of 'guilty' or 'not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims — noun a nonverbal reaction his answer to any problem was to get drunk their answer was to sue me — verb (= suffice, do, serve) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity A few words would answer This car suits my purpose well Will $100 do? A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school Nothing else will serve

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Answer in a test

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Language and thought Think

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Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

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Mathematics

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Language and thought Want Influence

Insist

Conjugation answer conjugation

How do you conjugate answer?

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Simple sentences

Thousands of people wanted to know the answer.
Isn't the answer easy?
I'm sorry, but I can't answer right away.
She always gives an instant answer.
You don't have to answer this question.
Please answer me.
Answer me.
Answer the question.
Raise your hand before you answer.
The president declined to answer the delicate question.
The President refused to answer the question.
Can someone answer the telephone?
She couldn't answer the question.
What did you answer?
Do you really need to ask the question to know the answer?
If I gave no answer, I would not have spoken.
If I wouldn't answer, I wouldn't talk.
The answer leads us to a vicious circle.
You know the answer?
Compare your answer with Tom's.
Your answer is right.
Your answer is anything but perfect.
Your answer is wrong.
The defense lawyer was confident that he would be able to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal.
That's my answer!
Check your answer with his.

Movie subtitles

You won't answer anyone's questions at all, but you'll ask me questions, huh?
If you don't want to answer me, then you don't have to.
The only way to answer that question is to understand how the West came to be so powerful in the first place.
Understanding how the West beat the rest gives us an insight not just into the past but also into the future, and I think you'II agree, it helps answer the question that could be the most important of our time.
There was no way to detect them and so it was one of those domains of science that you couldn't answer, and, therefore, you didn't talk about it.
And, of course, the answer for Venus, sadly, is that some greenhouse effect, global warming, has overtaken Venus.
But if we do pick up a signal from an alien race, not everyone thinks it's such a good idea to answer back.
Finding the answer could be mankind's greatest challenge.
I don't have an answer.
That's not a very good answer right now, man.
Find the answer to your own question and death.
If you can't find the answer, you will be put in the hell of all the hells, and you will suffer all the pains which you can't get away from even after 10 million times of eternity.
I don't think it's necessary to answer that here.
The answer is within yourself.
What? You won't answer anyone's questions at all, but you'll ask me questions, huh?
The answer was: 21 cm!
I think you already know that answer.
The answer you've been looking for is right there before you.
You searched for a way to live without having to fight, and you have arrived at the answer, it seems, have you not?
Do you want to help your friend? Is that your answer then?
Is this my answer?
Truthfully, it would be the two of you who hold the answer to that question.
Are you certain we should answer?
She's searching for an answer more deeply within herself than she's ever gone.
So that is the answer.
You can look me in the eyes to answer me.
Cesare the somnambulist will answer all your questions.
Your answer. quick - they can survive but a few moments!
For your own sake, I suggest you answer these questions truthfully.
Starting from now, regarding my questions, please answer accurately.
Heloise is this whip-smart student who wants the answer to human existence.
I j. I just knew you were the answer to all my problems.
Josh Barrett, but before I answer any more questions, I should probably talk to an attorney.
Man, if you was a black man driving around with a dead white guy in the back of your ice cream truck, you'd know the answer to that!
A blunt question deserves a blunt answer.
If you do not repair to the telephone, I shall find myself obliged to answer it instead.
Even now there are people who think there's no case to answer.
Hey, so, um, the answer's no.

News and current affairs

One answer, of course, is a complete collapse of the US dollar.
The answer to these alarming developments is not nostalgia.
The answer lies both in the fact that it promised not to do so when it signed the NPT and in the consequences that it would impose on others.
It offers an answer to rising demand for healthy food with minimal environmental side effects.
At first sight, the easiest answer to the problem of low voter turnout is to give more power to the European Parliament.
The answer is: very poor.
The answer is obvious: China mounted a full-court press to change minds.
There should be no doubt about the answer: it is clearly in the EU's interest to see Turkey's democracy and economy continue to strengthen.
The market is merely a tool, not an answer to every human problem.
The affirmative answer seems to depend on two separate claims.
Given the unpredictability of global developments, it is, of course, impossible to answer this question definitively.
When the agent asked how the tape would be removed, he was not given any answer.
In trying to answer them, two considerations seem fundamental.
This means that we can't answer complex questions that depend on more than one field.
The answer, ultimately, doesn't lie with any civilian use of nuclear energy, but first and foremost with its military applications.
To arrive at an informed answer, we need to work out how the planet will look in 2100 if we invest different amounts in adaptation and carbon cuts.
Reaching a proper answer to these questions requires extensive economic modeling, with different variables calculated and regional differences analyzed.
Yet time is not the answer for economies desperately in need of the structural repairs of fiscal consolidation, private-sector deleveraging, labor-market reforms, or improved competitiveness.
Whatever the case, both institutions certainly have much to answer for - and the loan agreements provide an arbitration clause to bring them to account.
But his latest victory does not answer the question of what will happen when he finally does leave the political scene.
And the answer brings us back, full circle, to where we started, namely to US fiscal policy.

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