response
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6.3
- noun
- /rɪˈspɒns/
:
responsorio
- During the service, the congregation sang the response to the priest's reading of the scripture.
- choral response
- call-and-response
- response songs
It's a contrapunnel theme, a call and response, but they're actually based on modes.
- It's a contrapunnel theme, a call and response, but they're actually based on modes.
Examples
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Yet, the overwhelming response from the congregation gave me a new burst of strength.
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Let's do a little call-and-response for Audrey's birthday, shall we?
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First, within the Roman Catholic Church, there was a response of genuine surprise.
Academic text (2013) -
At Mass, I've never known him to sing, or even to mouth the responses in his missal.
Fiction book (2002) -
"Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!" The eager congregational response made his scalp tingle.
Fiction book (1999) -
As part of the ceremony, the leader prompted the group with a prayer, to which they sang their response together.
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At the end of the hymn, the congregation joined in for the traditional response to the minister's blessing.
Synonyms
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1.0
A spoken, written, or shown reply to a question
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1.0
An answer in speech or writing to a question from someone
A short chant sung or said as a response during a religious service
Antonyms
Compounds
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11
4.4
The body's reaction to germs like viruses or bacteria that fights infection
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3
4.8
A learned reaction to a signal, like a bell, that happens after the signal is often shown with something else
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1
5.7
A reaction a person develops from practice or experience, not one they are born with
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1
6.2
Change in the skin's tiny electrical activity when you feel stress or strong emotion
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1
6.6
A quick automatic reaction to a sudden sound or movement that makes you jump
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1
6.9
The amount a device or system changes output at different frequencies
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A body defence by special white blood cells that attacks viruses, fungi, and transplanted organs
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A learned reaction to a sound or signal after it happens many times
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A learned action an animal or person does to avoid something bad after a warning signal
An emotional reaction you learn when something is often linked with a good or bad event
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A change in the skin's electrical signal when someone feels stress or strong emotion
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A change in the skin's electrical activity when a person feels stress or strong emotion
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A faster and stronger rise of antibodies when the body meets the same germ again
Online videos and streams made to cause the pleasant tingling feeling and help people relax
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A pleasant tingling on the scalp that moves down the neck and spine and makes you feel very relaxed
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A graph showing how loudness changes across low and high tones
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A graph that shows how loud a speaker or amplifier is at different frequencies
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Part of the body's defence where B cells make antibodies in the blood to fight bacteria and toxins
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The body's reaction that makes antibodies and sends cells to fight germs
- Specialized
A small change in the skin's electric signals when someone feels stress or strong emotion
A very quick answer to a question given without thinking, often one after another
An automatic action your body makes without thinking when something touches or moves near you
- Formal
A reaction that shows little concern for criticism or others' feelings
Surface Forms
Etymology
Response comes from the old Latin verb respondere, made of re- 'back' and spondere 'to promise', and is the same root as respond. It began as words said 'back' to a priest, so in church a response is the congregation's reply.