Well-answered
noun
1.
a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.:
He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
2.
a correct response to a question asked to test one’s knowledge.
3.
an equivalent or approximation:
a singing group that tried to be the French answer to the Beatles.
4.
an action serving as a reply or response:
The answer was a volley of fire.
5.
a solution to a problem, especially in mathematics.
6.
a reply to a charge or accusation.
7.
Law. a pleading in which a party responds to his or her opponent’s statement of position, especially the defendant’s reply to the plaintiff’s complaint.
8.
Music. the entrance of a fugue subject, usually on the dominant, either slightly altered or transposed exactly after each presentation in the tonic.
verb (used without object)
9.
to speak or write in response; make answer; reply.
10.
to respond by an act or motion:
He answered with a nod. The champion answered with a right to the jaw.
11.
to act or suffer in consequence of (usually followed by for).
12.
to be or declare oneself responsible or accountable (usually followed by for):
I will answer for his safety.
13.
to be satisfactory or serve (usually followed by for):
His cane answered for a baseball bat.
14.
to conform; correspond (usually followed by to):
The prisoner answered to the description issued by the police.
verb (used with object)
15.
to speak or write in response to; reply to:
to answer a person; to answer a question.
16.
to act or move in response to:
Answer the doorbell. We answered their goal with two quick goals of our own.
17.
to solve or present a solution of.
18.
to serve or fulfill:
This will answer the purpose.
19.
to discharge (a responsibility, claim, debt, etc.).
20.
to conform or correspond to; be similar or equivalent to:
This dog answers your description.
21.
to atone for; make amends for.
22.
to reply or respond favorably to:
I would like to answer your request but am unable to do so.
Verb phrases
23.
answer back, to reply impertinently or rudely:
Well-behaved children do not answer back when scolded.
Idioms
24.
answer the helm, Nautical. (of a vessel) to maneuver or remain steady according to the position of the rudder.
noun
1.
a reply, either spoken or written, as to a question, request, letter, or article
2.
a reaction or response in the form of an action: drunkenness was his answer to disappointment
3.
a solution, esp of a mathematical problem
4.
(law)
a party’s written reply to his opponent’s interrogatories
(in divorce law) the respondent’s written reply to the petition
5.
a musical phrase that follows the subject of a fugue, reproducing it a fifth higher or a fourth lower
verb
6.
(when transitive, may take a clause as object) to reply or respond (to) by word or act: to answer a question, he answered, to answer the door, he answered that he would come
7.
(transitive) to reply correctly to; solve or attempt to solve: I could answer only three questions
8.
(intransitive) usually foll by to. to respond or react (to a stimulus, command, etc): the steering answers to the slightest touch
9.
(transitive) to pay off (a debt, obligation, etc); discharge
10.
when intr, often foll by for. to meet the requirements (of); be satisfactory (for); serve the purpose (of): this will answer his needs, this will answer for a chisel
11.
when intr, often foll by to. to match or correspond (esp in the phrase answer (or answer to) the description)
12.
(transitive) to give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)
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