Noun : He sent an answer to my letter promptly. ,a singing group that tried to be the French answer to the Beatles. ,The answer was a volley of fire. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : He answered with a nod. The champion answered with a right to the jaw. ,I will answer for his safety. ,His cane answered for a baseball bat. ,The prisoner answered to the description issued by the police. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to answer a person; to answer a question. ,Answer the doorbell. We answered their goal with two quick goals of our own. ,This will answer the purpose. ,This dog answers your description. ,I would like to answer your request but am unable to do so. From Dictionary.com.
568 – 569 In the Socratic method, the answerer is the one saying things. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
The other answerer is correct in that you can buy a real one for around 100.00. From Wordnik.com. [SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6090] Reference
ALCIBIADES: I should say, Socrates, that the answerer was the speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Alcibiades I] Reference
The second "answerer"here does a decent job of laying out the case in the general sense, not legal for those allegations and concerns in one place. From Wordnik.com. [Will this doom the Huckabee campaign?] Reference
Some questions have already led to research papers naming both the asker and "answerer" as co-authors. From Wordnik.com. [Snipr/SnipURL - Most interesting snipped URLs] Reference
The answerer, then, must divide the expression: for. From Wordnik.com. [On Sophistical Refutations] Reference
Depends on whether you're the asker or the answerer. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks At Radio And Television Correspondents Dinner] Reference
This time, the answerer grasps my problem first time. From Wordnik.com. [Flights of insanity « Gin&Comment] Reference
I confess I paid little attention to Gravel as an answerer. From Wordnik.com. [Ross Smith: A Debate Coach's Perspective on Tonight's "Winners and Losers"] Reference
I'm working as a copy editor and phone answerer, if needed. From Wordnik.com. [Working in the office] Reference
Can find out what sort of person the answerer student adviser, etc is. From Wordnik.com. [E-learning awareness high, usage low in Japan] Reference
I'm confident the answerer of the questions will do so in a dignified way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2001] Reference
Wofram | Alpha, a new kind of online question-answerer, will be launched this weekend. From Wordnik.com. [Past Tech Trends & Products: Technology Live Archive] Reference
A while ago, Stewart wrote a blog entry with the words "question" and "answerer" in it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-03-01] Reference
To recap: start by ‘just asking a question’ that implies wrongdoing by the answerer. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Where Are The Women? A precious few were published in recent addition of the UCLA Law Review”:] Reference
It was composed not of two voices, but of one, which acted alike as questioner and answerer. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
In these exchanges, one participant took the role of answerer, the other the role of questioner. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Logic] Reference
And, we'll answerer your questions, as always, 1-800-807-2620 or e-mail us at [email protected]. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2003] Reference
COSSACK: Well, I'll tell you what, as an -- usually I get to ask the questions, but as an answerer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: United States Supreme Court to Hear Bush Campaign Appeal - November 24, 2000] Reference
Since that time, he has become "available" as a handy instant message question answerer person via Google. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-03-01] Reference
Ah, yes, but the righteousness of the profound listener, and of the answerer who will answer come what may. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
And by the way, you are not wasting your life writing this paper like another answerer stated…..good luck. From Wordnik.com. [I need help finding a passage in the gospels.? « Literacy Research « Literacy Help « Literacy News] Reference
Consequently, if any of the questions put to him be not of this character, the answerer should not grant them. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
It is a conversation held under certain rules: 1 The answerer is required to reply in as few words as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Cunningham’s history of criticism] Reference
"Specifically, to drop a recorded message on a live answerer, without any sort of live operator involved, is illegal.". From Wordnik.com. [Is Sarah Palin's robocall for Nikki Haley illegal?] Reference
I liked the students a lot – I even liked all their questions (Q&A periods are inherently flattering to the answerer). From Wordnik.com. [2007 November : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2] Reference
With regard to the giving of answers, we must first define what is the business of a good answerer, as of a good questioner. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
Sort of like the old 'Have you stopped beating your wife yet?' type question, in which the answerer really hasn't a way out. From Wordnik.com. [Detroit mayoral scandal has Plainfield echoes] Reference
For the answerer, if he does not understand, is always permitted to say ‘I do not understand’: he is not compelled to reply. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
About a third of the time the answerer would get that nervous look liars get and tell you that the person you wanted wasn't home. From Wordnik.com. [Too Many Spies Spoil The Case]
Now the art of examining is a branch of dialectic: and this may prove a false conclusion because of the ignorance of the answerer. From Wordnik.com. [On Sophistical Refutations] Reference
Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. From Wordnik.com. [Homa Sabet Tavangar: In Unity Is Our Security: Baha'i Wisdom For Violent Times] Reference
On the other hand, it is directed against the thought whenever a man uses the expression in the same sense which the answerer had in mind when he granted it. From Wordnik.com. [On Sophistical Refutations] Reference
This we must most implicitly believe, the inquirer and the answerer being who they are — especially since the poet has so greatly glorified his grandfather in his works. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
He, the seeker after numerical combinations, the solver of amusing problems, the answerer of charades, rebuses, logogryphs, and such things, was at last in his true element. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
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