RESPOND

Respond

A respond is a half-pier or half-pillar which is bonded into a wall and designed to carry the springer at one end of an arch.

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respond

Noun

  1. A response.
  2. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
  3. A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

Verb

  1. To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
    to respond to a question or an argument
  2. To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response; to accord.
  3. To correspond with; to suit.
  4. To satisfy; to answer.
    The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.


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