reaction
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(noun) doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism" |
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Related Words: backlash, opposition, resistance |
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(noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age" |
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Synonyms: response |
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Related Words: activity, answer, automatism, bodily function, bodily process, body process, double take, immune reaction, immune response, immunologic response, kinesis, learned reaction, learned response, overreaction, passage, passing, physiological reaction, rebound, reflex, taxis, tropism |
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(noun) an idea evoked by some experience; "his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do" |
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Related Words: idea, thought |
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(noun) extreme conservatism in political or social matters; "the forces of reaction carried the election" |
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Related Words: conservatism |
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(noun) a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude; "he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance"; "John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp" |
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Related Words: response |
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(noun) (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body; "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" |
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Related Words: force |
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(noun) (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others; "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water" |
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Synonyms: chemical reaction |
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Related Words: chain reaction, chemical action, chemical change, chemical equilibrium, chemical process, double decomposition, endothermic reaction, equilibrium, exothermic reaction, hydrolysis, metathesis, oxidation, oxidation-reduction, oxidisation, oxidization, photochemical reaction, redox, reducing, reduction, saponification |
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