What does react mean?

Definitions for react
riˈæktre·act

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. react, respondverb

    show a response or a reaction to something

  2. react, opposeverb

    act against or in opposition to

    "She reacts negatively to everything I say"

  3. reactverb

    undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions

    "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"

Wiktionary

  1. reactverb

    To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

  2. reactverb

    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.

  3. reactverb

    To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To REACTverb

    To return the impulse or impression.

    Etymology: re and act.

    The lungs being the chief instrument of sanguification, and acting strongly upon the chyle to bring it to an animal fluid, must be reacted upon as strongly. Arbuthnot.

    Cut off your hand, and you may do
    With t’ other hand the work of two;
    Because the soul her power contracts,
    And on the brother limb reacts. Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies.

Wikipedia

  1. React

    React is the lead single from Erick Sermons fifth studio album, React. The song was produced by Just Blaze and featured Sermon's fellow Def Squad member Redman. The song appears on the soundtrack to the 2003 film, Honey, and in the 2003 video game, NBA Street Vol. 2. "React" became Sermon's second top-40 hit, reaching No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song sampled the Sahir Ludhianvi written song "Chandhi Ka Badan", which was performed by Meena Kapoor, on the song's hook. The translation of the sampled line is "If someone wants to commit suicide, so what can you do?" to which Sermon responds "Whatever she said, then I'm that". The use of the sample drew criticism from the Hindi-speaking community.

ChatGPT

  1. react

    React refers to responding or acting in a particular way as a result of stimulus or input. This can relate to various contexts from chemical reactions, where substances change into different substances, to psychological responses to certain situations or events.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Reactverb

    to act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome

  2. Reactverb

    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

  3. Reactverb

    to act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition

Wikidata

  1. React

    React is Erick Sermon's fifth album. It received mediocre critical and commercial success despite featuring the single "React" which was a Rhythmic Top 40 and Billboard Hot 100 hit. John Bush of Allmusic describes it as being a "hardcore follow-up to his 2001 crossover hit Music" as well as commenting on its "dark tone" and "raw raps".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. React

    rē-akt′, 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.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'react' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4415

  2. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'react' in Verbs Frequency: #611

Anagrams for react »

  1. caret

  2. cater

  3. crate

  4. recta

  5. trace

  6. carte

  7. creat

  8. creta

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of react in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of react in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of react in a Sentence

  1. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker:

    This is just a joke in terms of how people react to things. I've said for some time that you need to secure the southern border. I've talked about the infrastructure, the personnel, the technology needed there. I've talked about enforcing the laws.

  2. Wagner Group:

    I react with pleasure, i’ve never just been the financier of the Internet Research Agency. I invented it, I created it, I managed it for a long time. It was founded to protect the Russian information space from boorish aggressive propaganda of anti-Russian narrative from the West.

  3. Jared Isaacman:

    The psychological aspect is one area where you can't compromise because... there were obviously circumstances that happened up there where if you had somebody that didn't have that mental toughness and started to react poorly, that really could've brought down the whole mission.

  4. Florence Ostende:

    This interspersed quality of the inside and the outside is something that architects since the 1990s have been working with, nature, the weather, living organisms and animals all react to the house. It is not just a bunker that is isolated from the outside. It breathes with the rest of the city.

  5. Jerome Schupp:

    The visibility is quite poor in terms of what may be published by companies and how investors will react.

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