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vastata
vastaus
A response or reply; something say said or do done in reaction to a statement or question.
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Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face.
A solution to a problem.
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There is no simple answer to corruption.
puhekieltä A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
puhekieltä To make a reply or response to.
Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 26
- There was no voice, nor any that answered.
Shakespeare
- She answers him as if she knew his mind.
(quote-book)
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puhekieltä To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
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to answer a charge or accusation
puhekieltä To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
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Nobody answered when I knocked on the door.
puhekieltä To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
Alexander Ellis
- Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer, but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.
1903, (w), (w), Ch. 41
- Theobald spoke as if watches had half-a-dozen purposes besides time-keeping, but he could hardly open his mouth without using one or other of his tags, and "answering every purpose" was one of them.
To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
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The man must answer to his employer for the money entrusted to his care.
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He has a lot to answer for.
- Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law.
puhekieltä To file a document in response to a complaint.
To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
1775, (w), (w), Act 2, Scene 2
- I wish she had answered her picture as well.
B. Edwards
- The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.
To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
Gilpin
- The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon through them.
To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
Jonathan Swift
- Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.
- That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience.
- If this but answer to my just belief, / I'll remember you.
Bible, Proverbs xxvii. 19
- As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
Bible, Matt. xxii. 46
- No man was able to answer him a word.
Milton
- These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
Macaulay
- The reasoning was not and could not be answered.
To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
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He answered my claim upon him.
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The servant answered the bell.
- This proud king (..) studies day and night / To answer all the debts he owes unto you.
puhekieltä To render account to or for.
- I will (..) send him to answer thee.
puhekieltä To atone; to be punished for.
- And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
puhekieltä To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
Bible, Eccles. x. 19
- Money answereth all things.
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