<p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to reply or answer in words</li><li>to respond briefly to a question</li><li>to rejoin</li><li>to respond generously to a charity drive</li><li>to react</li><li>to rise to react favorably</li><li>to exhibit some action or effect as if in answer</li><li>to correspond (usually followed by to)</li><li>to make a response</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a half pier, pilaster, or the like projecting from a wall as a support for a lintel or an arch, the other side of which is supported on a free-standing pier or column</li><li>a short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection</li></ul>