Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 67
Answer (v. i.) (v. i.) 回答；答覆；答辯 (v. t.) 回答；答覆；回答說；答道 [+that] To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
Answer (v. i.) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience. -- Shak.
If this but answer to my just belief, I 'll remember you. -- Shak.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. -- Prov. xxvii. 19.
Answer (n.) [C] [(+to)] 回答；答覆；覆信；答案；解決辦法 A reply to a change; a defense.
At my first answer no man stood with me. -- 2 Tim. iv. 16.
Answer (n.) Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
A soft answer turneth away wrath. -- Prov. xv. 1.
I called him, but he gave me no answer. -- Cant. v. 6.
Answer (n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer be Britons must take. -- Shak.
Answer (n.) A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
Answer (n.) (Law) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill. -- Bouvier.
Syn: Reply; rejoinder; response. See Reply.
Answer (n.) 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" [syn: answer, reply, response].
Answer (n.) A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places" [syn: solution, answer, result, resolution, solvent].
Answer (n.) The speech act of replying to a question [ant: enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, query, question].
Answer (n.) The principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims.
Answer (n.) A nonverbal reaction; "his answer to any problem was to get drunk"; "their answer was to sue me".
Answer (v.) React verbally; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation" [syn: answer, reply, respond].
Answer (v.) Respond to a signal; "answer the door"; "answer the telephone".
Answer (v.) Give the correct answer or solution to; "answer a question"; "answer the riddle".
Answer (v.) Understand the meaning of; "The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered" [syn: answer, resolve].
Answer (v.) Give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument); "The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution".
Answer (v.) Be liable or accountable; "She must answer for her actions".
Answer (v.) Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve" [syn: suffice, do, answer, serve].
Answer (v.) Match or correspond; "The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave".
Answer (v.) Be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of; "This may answer her needs".
Answer (v.) React to a stimulus or command; "The steering of my new car answers to the slightest touch".
Answer, () pleading in equity. A defence in writing made by a defendant, to the charges contained in a bill or information, filed by the plaintiff against him in a court of equity. The word answer involves a double sense; it is one thing when it simply replies to a question, another when it meets a charge; the answer in equity includes both senses, and may be divided into an examination and a defence. In that part which consists of an examination, a direct and full answer, or reply, must in general be given to every question asked. In that part which consists of a defence, the defendant must state his, case distinctly; but is not required to give information respecting the proofs that are to maintain it. Gresl. Eq. Ev. 19.
Answer, () As a defendant is called by a bill or information to make a discovery of the several charges it contains, he must do so, unless he is protected either by a demurrer a plea or disclaimer. It may be laid down as an invariable rule, that whatever part of a bill or information is not covered by one of these, must be defended by answer. Redesd. Tr. Ch. Pl. 244.
Answer, () In form, it usually begins, 1st, with its title, specifying which of the defendants it is the answer of, and the names of the plaintiffs in the cause in which it is filed as answer; 2d, it reserves to the defendant all the advantages which might be taken by exception to the bill; 3d, the substance of the answer, according to the defendant's knowledge, remembrance, information and belief, then follows, in which the matter of the bill, with the interrogatories founded thereon, are answered, one after the other, together with such additional matter as the defendant thinks necessary to bring forward in his, defence, either for the purpose of qualifying, or adding to, the case made by the bill, or to state a new case on his own behalf; 4th, this is followed by a general traverse or denial of all unlawful combinations charged in the bill, and of all other matters therein contained 5th, the answer is always upon oath or affirmation, except in the case of a corporation, in which case it is under the corporate seal.
Answer, () In substance, the answer ought to contain, 1st, a statement of facts and not arguments 2d, a confession and avoidance, or traverse and denial of the material parts of the bill 3d, its language ought to be direct and without evasion. Vide generally as to answers, Redes. Tr. Ch. Pl. 244 to 254; Coop. Pl. Eq. 312 to 327; Beames Pl. Eq. 34 et seq.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t. For an historical account of this instrument, see 2 Bro. Civ. Law, 371, n. and Barton's Hist. Treatise of a Suit in Equity.
Answer, () practice. The declaration of a fact by a witness after a question has been put asking for it.
Answer, () If a witness unexpectedly state facts against the interest of the party calling him, other witnesses may be called by the same party, to disprove those facts. But the party calling a witness cannot discredit him, by calling witnesses to prove his bad character for truth and veracity, or by proving that he has made statements out of court contrary to what he has sworn on the trial; B. N. P.; for the production of the witness is virtually an assertion by the party producing him, that he is credible.
Answerable (a.) 有責任的；可答覆的 Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.
Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? -- Swift.
Answerable (a.) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. -- Johnson.
Answerable (a.) Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? -- Holland.
This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. -- Milton.
Answerable (a.) Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
Answerable (a.) Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic]
Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. -- Milton.
Answerable (a.) Capable of being answered.
Answerable (a.) Morally or legally responsible to a higher authority; "parents are answerable for their child's acts".
Answerableness (n.) 責任心 The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
Answerableness (n.) Responsibility to someone or for some activity [syn: accountability, answerability, answerableness].
Answerably (adv.) In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
Answerably (adv.) Without construction. Correspondingly, proportionally; suitably, appropriately, fittingly.
Answerably (adv.) In suitable proportion; proportionately.
Answerably (adv.) In a corresponding manner; correspondingly.
Compare: Proportionately
Proportionately (adv.) 成比例地；相稱地 In a way that corresponds in size or amount to something else.
‘The risk of harm increases proportionately with the dose.’
‘A small rise in price will cause a proportionately smaller drop in sales.’
Compare: Correspondingly
Correspondingly (adv.) 相應地；相同地；相關地 In an analogous or equivalent way.
‘It has fewer problems and correspondingly requires less maintenance.’
Answerer (n.) 答覆者 One who answers.
Answerer (n.) Someone who responds [syn: respondent, responder, answerer].
Answerless (a.) Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. -- Byron.
Answerless (a.) Without an answer: such as.
Answerless (a.) Giving no answer : unanswering.
Answerless (a.) Having received no answer.
Answerless (a.) Impossible to be answered : unanswerable.
Answerlessly (adv.) Without an answer; without answering.
An't () An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj.
An't () A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't. [Colloq. & illiterate speech.]
Ant- () See Anti-, prefix.
-ant () A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.
Ant (n.) (Zool.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
Note: Among ants, as among bees, there are neuter or working ants, besides the males and females; the former are without wings. Ants live together in swarms, usually raising hillocks of earth, variously chambered within, where they maintain a perfect system of order, store their provisions, and nurture their young. There are many species, with diverse habits, as agricultural ants, carpenter ants, honey ants, foraging ants, amazon ants, etc. The white ants or Termites belong to the Neuroptera.
Ant bird (Zool.), One of a very extensive group of South American birds ({Formicariid[ae]), which live on ants.
The family includes many species, some of which are called ant shrikes, ant thrushes, and ant wrens.
Ant+rice+(Bot.),+A+species+of+grass+({Aristida+oligantha">Ant rice (Bot.), a species of grass ({Aristida oligantha) cultivated by the agricultural ants of Texas for the sake of its seed.
Ant (n.) Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers [syn: ant, emmet, pismire].
Compare: Hymenopterous
Hymenopterous (a.) 【昆】膜翅目的 (Entomology) See Hymenopteran.
‘In a matter of hours the presidential election, heretofore free of interference from legal insects, was overrun by hymenopterous lawyers.’
Compare: Hymenopteran
Hymenopteran (n.) (Entomology) 【昆】膜翅目昆蟲 An insect of the order Hymenoptera, such as a bee, wasp, or ant.
‘Flies and hymenopterans (bees and wasps) also differ in their flight patterns.’
Hymenopteran (a.) (Entomology) Relating to or denoting hymenopterans.
‘The composition stationarity test using the hymenopteran data was designed in a similar way, using just the 16S gene.’
Compare: Entomology
Entomology (n.) 昆蟲學 The branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects.
‘A large team can now be involved in investigations and she can draw on the expertise of many forensic specialists in anthropology, dentistry and even entomology (the study of insects).’
Ant (n.) [ C ] (B1) 螞蟻 A very small insect that lives under the ground in large and well-organized social groups.
Idiom:
Have ants in your pants (Old-fashioned humorous) 焦躁不安；躍躍欲試 To not be able to keep still because you are very excited or worried about something.
-ant (suffix) (also - ent) 進行…動作的人；起…作用的人（或物）；促進…作用的事物 (a person or thing) Performing or causing the stated action.
// Assistant
// Participant
// Disinfectant
// An expectant look.
// A defiant child.
Antae (n. pl. ) of Anta
Anta (n.) (Arch.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Note: Porches, when columns stand between two ant[ae], are called in Latin in antis. antiacid
Antacid (n.) (Med.) 解酸劑，抗酸劑 A remedy for neutralizing acidity, especially of the stomach,
as an alkali or absorbent. -- a. Counteractive of acidity.
Compare: Buffer
Buffer (n.) (Mech.) (a) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.
Buffer (n.) (Mech.) (b) A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.
Buffer (n.) One who polishes with a buff.
Buffer (n.) A wheel for buffing; a buff.
Buffer (n.) A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man. [Colloq.] -- Dickens.
Buffer (n.) (Chem.) A substance or mixture of substances which can absorb or neutralize a certain quantity of acid or base and thus keep the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution (as measured by pH) relatively stable. Sometimes the term is used in a medical context to mean antacid.
Buffer (n.) (Computers) a data storage device or portion of memory used to temporarily store input or output data until the receiving device is ready to process it.
Buffer (n.) Any object or person that shields another object or person from harm, shock, or annoyance; as, the President's staff is his buffer from constant interruptions of his work.
Antacid (a.) Acting to neutralize acid (especially in the stomach).
Antacid (n.) An agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) [syn: antacid, gastric antacid, alkalizer, alkaliser, antiacid].
Antacid (a.) 中和酸的；解酸的 Counteractive of acidity.
Antacrid (a.) Corrective of acrimony of the humors.
Antaean (a.) Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.
Antagonism (n.) Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.
Antagonism (n.) [ U or C ] 對抗，對立；敵對；敵意 Hate, extreme unfriendliness, or active opposition to someone.
// There's a history of antagonism between the two teams.
// The antagonism towards neighbouring states.
// The historic antagonisms between the countries of western Europe.
Antagonist (n.) 敵手，對手 One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent.
Antagonist (n.) A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.
Antagonist (n.) A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.
Antagonist (a.) Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.
Antagonistic (a.) Alt. of Antagonistical.
Antagonistical (a.) 反對的，敵對的 Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.
Antagonized (imp. & p. p.) of Antagonize
Antagonozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Antagonize
Antagonize (v. t.) 使成敵人，敵對，反對 To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
Antagonize (v. i.) 引起反抗 To act in opposition.
Antagony (n.) 對抗，對立；敵對；敵意 Contest; opposition; antagonism.
Antalgic (a.) 【醫】止痛的 Alleviating pain.
Antalgic (n.) 鎮痛劑 A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne.
Antalkali (n.) 鹼性中和劑，抗鹼劑 Alt. of Antalkaline
Antalkaline (n.) 解鹼藥 Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system.
Antalkaline (a.) 解鹼的，抗鹼的 Of power to counteract alkalies.
Antambulacral (a.) Away from the ambulacral region.
Antanaclasis (n.) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.
Antanagoge (n.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.
Antaphrodisiac (a.) Capable of blunting the venereal appetite.
Antaphrodisiac (n.) Anything that quells the venereal appetite.
Antaphroditic (a.) Antaphrodisiac.
Antaphroditic (a.) Antisyphilitic.
Antaphroditic (n.) An antaphroditic medicine.
Antapoplectic (a.) Good against apoplexy.
Antapoplectic (n.) A medicine used against apoplexy.
Antarchism (n.) Opposition to government in general.
Antarchist (n.) One who opposes all government.
Antarchistic (a.) Alt. of Antarchistical
Antarchistical (a.) Opposed to all human government.
Antarctic (a.) 南極的；南極地區的 Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23 [deg] 28 [min]. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
Antarctic (a.) At or near the south pole [syn: {south-polar}, {Antarctic}].
Antarctic (n.) 南極地區 The region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters [syn: {Antarctic}, {Antarctic Zone}, {South Frigid Zone}].
Antarctica (n.) (proper noun) 南極洲 A continent round the South Pole, situated mainly within the Antarctic Circle and almost entirely covered by ice sheets. Its exploitation is governed by an international treaty of 1959, which was renewed in 1991.
Antares (n.) The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.
Antarthritic (a.) Counteracting or alleviating gout.
Antarthritic (n.) A remedy against gout.
Antasthmatic (a.) Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma.
Antasthmatic (n.) A remedy for asthma.
Ant-bear (n.) 【動】大食蟻獸 An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
Compare: Edentate
Edentate (a.)【動】無齒的；貧齒目的 Belonging or pertaining to the Edentata, an order of New World mammals characterized by the absence of incisors and canines in the arrangement of teeth and comprising the armadillos, the sloths, and the South American anteaters.
Edentate (a.) Toothless.
Edentate (n.) An edentate mammal.
Edentate (n.) (Zoology) 貧齒目動物 A mammal of an order distinguished by the lack of incisor and canine teeth. The edentates, which include anteaters, sloths, and armadillos, are all native to Central and South America.
Order Xenarthra (or Edentata)
‘Another group of uniquely South American mammals, the edentates (sloths, armadillos and anteaters), survived the competition with the invaders and are still abundant in South America.’
Ant bird () (Zool.) See Ant bird, under Ant, n.
Ant bird (n.) Any of various dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms [syn: antbird, ant bird].
Ant-cattle (n.) pl. (Zool.) Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.
Ante- () A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. 'anti`, Skr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. 'anti` in that of opposite, or in the place of.
Ante (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
Ante (v. t. & i.) To put up (an ante).
Anteact (n.) A preceding act.
Anteal (a.) Being before, or in front. [R.] -- J. Fleming.
Ant-eater (n.) (Zool.) One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.
Antecedaneous (a.) Antecedent; preceding in time. "Capable of antecedaneous proof." -- Barrow.
Antecede (v. t. & i.) To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass. -- Sir M. Hale.
Antecede (v.) Be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools" [syn: predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate] [ant: follow, postdate].
Antecedence (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence. -- H. Spenser.
Antecedence (n.) (Astron.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
Antecedence (n.) Preceding in time [syn: priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency] [ant: posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness].
Antecedency (n.) The state or condition of being antecedent; priority. -- Fothherby.
Antecedency (n.) Preceding in time [syn: priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency] [ant: posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness].
Antecedent (a.) 在前的，在先的 [（+to）] Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
Antecedent (a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
Syn: Prior; previous; foregoing.
Antecedent (n.) [C] 前事，前情；【語】（關係代名詞的）先行詞 That which goes before in time; that which precedes. -- South.
The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. -- Max Miller.
Antecedent (n.) One who precedes or goes in front. [Obs.]
My antecedent, or my gentleman usher. -- Massinger.
Antecedent (n.) pl. The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history. -- J. H. Newman.
If the troops . . . prove worthy of their antecedents, the victory is surely ours. -- Gen. G. McClellan.
Antecedent (n.) (Gram.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
Antecedent (n.) (Logic) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
Antecedent (n.) (Logic) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
Antecedent (n.) (Math.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
Antecedent (a.) Preceding in time or order [ant: {subsequent}].
Antecedent (n.) Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) [syn: {ancestor}, {ascendant}, {ascendent}, {antecedent}, {root}] [ant: {descendant}, {descendent}].
Antecedent (n.) A preceding occurrence or cause or event.
Antecedent (n.) Anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience" [syn: {antecedent}, {forerunner}].
Antecedent (n.) The referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun.
Antecedent. () Something that goes before. In the construction of laws, agreements, and the like, reference is always to be made to the last antecedent; ad proximun antecedens fiat relatio. But not only the antecedents but the subsequent clauses of the instrument must be considered: Ex antecedentibus et consequentibus fit optima interpretatio.
Antecedently (adv.) Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. --Barrow.
Antecedently (adv.) At an earlier time or formerly; "she had previously lived in Chicago"; "he was previously president of a bank"; "better than anything previously proposed"; "a previously unquestioned attitude"; "antecedently arranged" [syn: previously, antecedently].
Antecessor (n.) One who goes before; a predecessor.
The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. -- Sir E. Sandys.
Antecessor (n.) An ancestor; a progenitor. [Obs.]
Antechamber (n.) A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.
Antechamber (n.) A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.
Antechapel (n.) The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. -- Shipley.
Antecians (n. pl.) See {Ant[oe]cians}.
Antoeci, Antoecians (n. pl.) Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.
Antecommunion (n.) A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.
Antecursor (n.) A forerunner; a precursor. [Obs.]
Antedate (n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
Antedate (n.) Anticipation. [Obs.] -- Donne.
Antedate (n.) A date assigned to an event or document earlier than the actual date of the event or document.
Antedated (imp. & p. p.) of Antedate