react

verb
/ɹiːˈækt/

Etymology

From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact.

  1. derived from *h₂éǵeti
  2. derived from ācta
  3. derived from acte
  4. inherited from acte
  5. prefixed as react — “re + act

Definitions

  1. To act in response.

    • How did she react to the news?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. + 4 more definitions
    1. 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.

    2. To cause chemical agents to react

      To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.

    3. To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).

    4. An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.

      • Sad reacts only

The neighborhood

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.

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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.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA