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  • English Word Response Definition A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.
  • English Word Responseless Definition Giving no response.
  • English Word Responsibility Definition The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.
  • English Word Responsibility Definition That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power.
  • English Word Responsibility Definition Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.
  • English Word Responsible Definition Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office.
  • English Word Responsible Definition Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety.
  • English Word Responsible Definition Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned; as, a responsible office.
  • English Word Responsion Definition The act of answering.
  • English Word Responsion Definition The first university examination; -- called also little go. See under Little, a.
  • English Word Responsive Definition That responds; ready or inclined to respond.
  • English Word Responsive Definition Suited to something else; correspondent.
  • English Word Responsive Definition Responsible.
  • English Word Responsorial Definition Responsory; antiphonal.
  • English Word Responsory Definition Containing or making answer; answering.
  • English Word Responsory Definition The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service.
  • English Word Responsory Definition A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain.
  • English Word Responsory Definition An antiphonary; a response book.
  • English Word Rest Definition To arrest.
  • English Word Rest Definition A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
  • English Word Rest Definition Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
  • English Word Rest Definition Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
  • English Word Rest Definition That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
  • English Word Rest Definition A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
  • English Word Rest Definition A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
  • English Word Rest Definition A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
  • English Word Rest Definition The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
  • English Word Rest Definition A set or game at tennis.
  • English Word Rest Definition Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
  • English Word Rest Definition To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.