react
verbnouncommon in dialogue
- //ɹiːˈækt//
To act in response.
verb
- 1
To act in response.
How did she react to the news?
- 2
archaicTo 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 resist the action of another body by an opposite force
Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
- 4
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
- 5
To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
- 6
To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
Etymology
From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact.
noun
- 1
An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.
Sad reacts only
Forms
- plural
- reacts
- past tense
- reacted
- past participle
- reacted
- present participle
- reacting
- third person singular
- reacts