What does answering mean?
Definitions for answering
an·swer·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
answering, respondentadjective
replying
"an answering glance"; "an answering smile"
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answering
Answering is the act of responding to a question, statement, or inquiry providing the necessary or requested information. It can also involve reacting to a situation or problem with a particular action. Answering applies to different forms of communication, such as spoken or written language.
Webster Dictionary
Answering
of Answer
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of answering in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of answering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of answering in a Sentence
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
We would be out to dinner and they would ring my mother's cellphone, then they would call my dad's cellphone and then when we got back to the house, there would be another message on the answering machine.
It will make a difference how hard the candidates work in terms of meeting the activists and answering the hard questions.
When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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