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Narrator: Today's word is "Response" — noun, pronounced /rɪˈspɒns/, with the stress on "sponse".
Narrator: A response is a reply or reaction to something that has been said or done.
Narrator: In plain English, it is an answer or reaction.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin respondere, to answer.
Narrator: A common collocation is "in response to", which describes something done as a reaction.
Narrator: It differs from "reply", because a reply is spoken or written, while a response can be any reaction.
Narrator: In a second sense, a server response is the data sent back to a web browser.
Narrator: Medicine, computing, customer service and emergency services all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a response answers back.
Speaker A: Did the company answer your complaint?
Speaker B: I got a RESPONSE today! It comes from Latin respondere, to answer.
Speaker A: A good one?
Speaker B: A full refund.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "We received a huge response to the advert", marketing. "The patient showed a good response to treatment", medicine. "Response times improved", emergency services.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with an "s" before the "e", "response", not "responce".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Reply is its cousin, reaction its twin, and answer an alternative — yet response keeps its lively charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "response" in AI prompts — useful for APIs and customer support.
Speaker A: How for APIs?
Speaker B: Define the shape.
Prompt: Write a JSON response schema for an endpoint that returns a paginated list of orders.
Speaker A: And support?
Speaker B: Keep it warm.
Prompt: Draft a polite response to a customer whose parcel arrived damaged.
Speaker A: Could it help monitoring?
Speaker B: Yes, for speed.
Prompt: Alert the team when the average API response time goes above five hundred milliseconds.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Surveys.
Prompt: Summarise these survey responses into three themes with example quotes.
Response — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary