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  • 111answer — I. v. n. 1. Reply (especially to a question), rejoin, respond, say in reply, make answer, reply, or response. 2. Be accountable, be responsible or liable, be security, go surety. 3. Correspond, be correlated, be counterpart, be like, be similar.… …

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  • 112answer mode —    A function that allows a modem to answer an incoming call, detect the protocol being used by the calling modem, and synchronize with that protocol.    See also auto answer; auto dial …

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  • 113answer —   Pane, panena, ō, eō; ī mai (Cf. Gram. 7.2); ha ina (as to a riddle); hua loa a, ha iloa a (as to a problem); pākīkē, ho okīkē, u u (rude); āpa apani (clever).    ♦ To answer briefly, ekemu.    ♦ To refuse to answer, mū …

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  • 114answer — [OE] Etymologically, the word answer contains the notion of making a sworn statement rebutting a charge. It comes from a prehistoric West and North Germanic compound *andswarō; the first element of this was the prefix *and ‘against’, related to… …

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  • 115answer the call of nature — or[obey the call of nature] {v. phr.}, {slang} To go to the bathroom to relieve oneself by urinating or defecating. * /Ted was hiking in the mountains when suddenly he had to answer the call of nature but since there was no bathroom in the woods …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 116answer to — {v.} To be named; go by a certain name or designation; be accountable. * /When you walk my dog, please remember that he answers to the name Caesar. / * /As head of the company she does not have to answer to anyone./ …

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  • 117answer the call of nature — or[obey the call of nature] {v. phr.}, {slang} To go to the bathroom to relieve oneself by urinating or defecating. * /Ted was hiking in the mountains when suddenly he had to answer the call of nature but since there was no bathroom in the woods …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 118answer to — {v.} To be named; go by a certain name or designation; be accountable. * /When you walk my dog, please remember that he answers to the name Caesar. / * /As head of the company she does not have to answer to anyone./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 119Answer/Seizure ratio — In telecommunications, the Answer/Seizure ratio (ASR) is the number of successfully answered calls divided by the total number of calls attempted (seizures). Since busy signals and other rejections by the called number count as call failures, the …

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  • 120Answer to History — Shortly after his overthrow in 1979 by Islamic revolutionaries, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, wrote an autobiographical memoir entitled Answer to History (ISBN 0 8128 2755 4), which was translated from the original French (Réponse à l… …

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