react

Definition of react in English English dictionary: To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome; To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition; To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state; {v} to return an impulse, repel, resist; Real Estate Advocacy Communications Team; BOMA International's grassroots effort to support legislative and regulatory advocacy at the federal, state and local level; to undergo a chemical change For instance, flames from a fire react with the wood to form smoke, and eventually you are left with ash or charcoal instead of wood This is a chemical change that happened because the wood reacted with the fire NOx and VOCs react to form ozone Ozone can react in a similar way with rubber, plants, and our lungs to cause them to break down (Back to Ozone Action! Days); undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react" show a response or a reaction to something act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to everything I say; When you react to something that has happened to you, you behave in a particular way because of it. They reacted violently to the news It's natural to react with disbelief if your child is accused of bullying = respond; Radio Emergency Associated Communication Team; Radio Emergency Associated Citizen Team Volunteer citizens' band (CB) operators who monitor the CB emergency channel 9 and who offer their services in support of the community during major incidents REACT groups don't get used as much in the Rochester area as the ham operators do In outlying areas where there are few amateur operators, REACT members can step in; When one chemical substance reacts with another, or when two chemical substances react, they combine chemically to form another substance. Calcium reacts with water Under normal circumstances, these two gases react readily to produce carbon dioxide and water; act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to everything I say"; to act in response to something; show a response or a reaction to something; Hekimian's Remote Access and Test System; If you react against someone's way of behaving, you deliberately behave in a different way because you do not like the way they behave. My father never saved and perhaps I reacted against that. = rebel; show a response or a reaction to something act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to everything I say; If you react to a substance such as a drug, or to something you have touched, you are affected unpleasantly or made ill by it. Someone allergic to milk is likely to react to cheese; (Remote Access and Test System) The Spirent Communications OSS for provisioning, monitoring, testing, and administering telecommunications networks REACT includes a graphical user interface (GUI), the ability to process across multiple computing platforms, a database with relational abilities, and robust communications with other OSS installations; A trade name for a proprietary athletic shoe performance improvement technology used by Converse; Retirement Equity Act of 1984 – a federal law that amended ERISA with the purpose of providing greater pension equity for women workers and surviving spouses; undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"; When two or more chemicals and are asked to form a new product; Rapid Early Action for Coronary Treatment; {f} respond, act in response to a stimulus; answer, reply
reacted: past of react
reacting: present participle of react
reacts: third-person singular of react