react
verbEtymology
Definitions
To act in response.
- How did she react to the news?
To act or perform a second time
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
- It is somewhat extraordinary, that the offence for which James II, was expelled, that of setting up power by assumption, should be re-acted, under another shape and form, by the parliament that expelled him.
To return an impulse or impression
To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
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To act upon each other
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
To cause chemical agents to react
To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.
- Sad reacts only
The neighborhood
- neighborinterreact
- neighborinterreaction
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at react. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at react. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at react
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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