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  THE REPLY TO HAYNE
• WordNet 3.6
  • v reply react verbally "She didn't want to answer","answer the question","We answered that we would accept the invitation"
  • n reply a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation "I waited several days for his answer","he wrote replies to several of his critics"
  • n reply the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange "he growled his reply"
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"THE OWNER OF THE HAT DEIGNS NO REPLY."

• Interesting fact: Calvin Coolidge, was so famous for saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get him to say more than two words. She told the president of her wager. His reply: "You lose."
• • Reply Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.
  • n Reply That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
  • Reply (Law) To answer a defendant's plea.
  • Reply To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer. "O man, who art thou that repliest against God?"
  • v. t Reply To return for an answer. "Lords, vouchsafe
    To give me hearing what I shall reply ."
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• Interesting fact: When asked to name his favorite among all his paintings, Pablo Picasso replied "the next one."
• • reply To fold back.
  • reply To return for an answer.
  • reply To make answer; answer; respond.
  • reply To do or give something in return for something else; make return or response; answer by suitable action; meet an attack: as, to reply to the enemy's fire.
  • reply In law, to answer a defendant's plea. The defendant pleads in bar to the plaintiff's declaration; the plaintiff replies to the defendant's plea in bar.
  • n reply An answer; a response.
  • n reply The act or power of answering, especially with fitness or conclusiveness.
  • n reply That which is done for or in consequence of something else; an answer by deeds; a counter-attack: as, his reply was a blow.
  • n reply In music, the answer of a fugue. Synonyms and Rejoinder, retort.
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• • v.t Reply rē-plī′ to fold back: to answer
  • v.i Reply to make response: to meet an attack, as to reply to the enemy's fire—(law) to a defendant's plea
  • n Reply an answer: the power of answering: a counter-attack:
  • n Reply (mus.) the answer of a figure
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• Charles Caleb Colton

  

  “Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.”
• Aristotle

  

  “To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
• Elwyn Brooks White

  

  “You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...”
• Edgar Allan Poe

  

  “Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

  “I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.”
• Source Unknown

  

  “A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.”

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