React
[rɪ'ækt] or [ri'ækt]
Definition
(verb.) undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; 'The hydrogen and the oxygen react'.
(verb.) show a response or a reaction to something.
(verb.) act against or in opposition to; 'She reacts negatively to everything I say'.
Typist: Rebecca--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
(v. i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
(v. i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
Checker: Patrice
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Repeat, re-enact, perform again, act again.
v. n. [1]. Recoil, rebound, fly back, spring back.[2]. Act reciprocally.
Typist: Vance
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Recoil, result, counteract, rebound
ANT:Act, influence, strike, impress
Inputed by Edgar
Definition
v.t. to act anew.—v.i. to return an impulse in the opposite direction: to act mutually on each other.—n. Reac′tion action resisting other action: mutual action: backward tendency from revolution reform or progress.—adj Reac′tionary for or implying reaction.—n. one who attempts to reverse political action.—n. Reac′tionist.—adj Reac′tive.—adv. Reac′tively.—ns. Reac′tiveness Reactiv′ity.
Typist: Stephanie
Examples
- But, aside from this, she was keenly conscious of the way in which such an estrangement would react on herself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Conduct and theory react upon each other. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In the most recent methods of manufacture, salt, water, ammonia, and carbon dioxide are made to react. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But he could not react even to the fear. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am right glad to hear it, if it will not react upon the fate of James. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We have acted with or upon the thing so frequently that we can anticipate how it will act and react--such is the meaning of familiar acquaintance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It shows the sciences rising from daily needs and occupations, formulated by philosophy, enriching philosophy, giving rise to new industries, which react in turn upon the sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Plato said that Aristotle reacted against his instructo r as a vigorous colt kicks the mother that nourishes it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All these races mixed with and reacted upon one another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Reacting against an empty formalism they are tumbling over themselves to prove how directly they touch daily life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Experimentation, in other words, is not equivalent to blind reacting. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The two processes were going on together, they were constantly reacting upon each other, but they were in root and essence different. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He no longer reacts just to his own hunger, but behaves in the light of what others are doing for its prospective satisfaction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Unless such activity reacts to enlarge the imaginative vision of life, it is on a level with the busy work of children. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The pressure of the confined air reacts against the water and tends to drive it out of the chamber. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For it would be seen that the infant reacts to stimuli by activities of handling, reaching, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You don't give him a woman's love, you give him an ideal love, and that is why he reacts away from you. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The chlorine thus set free reacts with the water and liberates oxygen; this in turn destroys the coloring matter in the fibers, and transforms the material into a bleached product. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Checked by Horatio