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| Sounds | riyae'kshahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2521 more rhymes in ahn... |
| Meaning | A response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude. |
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| Examples | "he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance"; "John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp" |
| Broader | response |
| Verbs | react |
| Meaning | A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent. |
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| Examples | "a bad reaction to the medicine" |
| Synonyms | response |
| Broader | bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity |
| Narrower | automatism; rebound; overreaction; galvanic skin response, GSR, psychogalvanic response, electrodermal response, electrical skin response, Fere phenomenon, Tarchanoff phenomenon; immune response, immune reaction, immunologic response; tropism; taxis; kinesis; double take; reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction; learned reaction, learned response; passage, passing; answer; transfusion reaction |
| Adjectives | psychomotor; sensorimotor |
| Verbs | react |
| Meaning | (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others. |
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| Examples | "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water" |
| Synonyms | chemical reaction |
| Category | chemistry, chemical science |
| Broader | chemical process, chemical change, chemical action |
| Narrower | addition reaction; aldol reaction; chain reaction; chemical equilibrium, equilibrium; decomposition, decomposition reaction, chemical decomposition reaction; displacement, displacement reaction; double decomposition, double decomposition reaction, metathesis; elimination reaction; endothermic reaction; exothermic reaction; hydrolysis; neutralization, neutralisation, neutralization reaction, neutralisation reaction; oxidation, oxidization, oxidisation; oxidation-reduction, oxidoreduction, redox; photochemical reaction; reduction, reducing; saponification |
| Verbs | react |
| Meaning | An idea evoked by some experience. |
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| Examples | "his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do" |
| Broader | idea, thought |
| Meaning | Doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like. |
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| Examples | "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism" |
| Broader | resistance, opposition |
| Narrower | backlash |
| Meaning | Extreme conservatism in political or social matters. |
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| Examples | "the forces of reaction carried the election" |
| Broader | conservatism, conservativism |
| Adjectives | reactionary; reactionary |
| Meaning | (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body. |
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| Examples | "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" |
| Category | mechanics |
| Broader | force |
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