Generally, an answer is a reply to a question or is a solution, a retaliation, or a response that is relevant to the said question.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

In the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin and Pilate, it might appear from the narratives of Matthew and Luke that Jesus at first refused a direct reply to the high priest's question: " Art thou the Christ?

" He chose the context of psychotherapy to " sidestep the problem of giving the program a data base of real-world knowledge ", the therapeutic situation being one of the few real human situations in which a human being can reply to a statement with a question that indicates very little specific knowledge of the topic under discussion.

" In reply to the question on whether this meant they intended to create a military dictatorship, O ’ Connor said: " You can take it that way if you like.

Such a question may be asked merely to harass or upset the respondent with no intention of listening to their reply, or asked with the full expectation that the respondent will predictably deny it.

Another is the use of French reflexive constructions in sentences such as the reply to a question like Where are you going ?, reply: Me I'm goin ' downtown ( this reflexive form of grammar also exists in Irish Gaelic and Jerriais ).

Lyudmila Shestakova recalled the reply made by conductor Eduard Nápravník and stage manager Gennadiy Kondratyev of the Mariinsky Theatre in response to her question of whether Boris had been accepted for production:

The directive is regarded as " inviolable ," and any Star Fleet officer responding to a question regarding their prior actions with words to the effect of " I cannot reply due to the Temporal Prime Directive " would not normally be subject to censure, as long as some form of temporal instability had been sensed, however slight the signs.

Mr. Michael Stewart, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in a reply to a question in Parliament, 9 December 1969: " As I have explained before, there is reference, in the vital United Nations Security Council Resolution, both to withdrawal from territories and to secure and recognized boundaries.

In court, the police officer states his reply to his question was " I killed my wife.

" It is also commonly used as a question tag, i. e., method for inciting a reply, as in " It's nice here, eh?

" When Toklas did not reply, Stein said, " In that case, what is the question?

Fallowfield's reply to any question began: " Well, I think the answer lies in the soil!

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

He showed his intention " absolutely not " to implement racial screenings in reply to the question from Steve Kroft on " 60 Minutes " right after 9-11.

The Sacred Congregation of Rites on November 26, 1919 stated in a reply to the following question,

* Paralleling the stepmother's question of her magic mirror, the Indian epic poem Padmavat ( 1540 ) includes the line: " Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati ?, Queen Nagamati asks to her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply ...";

In reply to the question of whether he should stop, they replied that once released, he should continue with even more dedication.

It also can be a reply to a question or statement.

In response to the question from a man named Acela Kassapa as to whether or not suffering is self-caused, the Buddha gave a negative reply ; " A person acts and the same person experiences result — this, Kassapa, which you emphatically call ' suffering self-wrought ', amounts to the eternalist theory.

" Then examine it and test it by these rules you have, and firstly, and chiefly, by this: whether the impression has to do with the things that are up to us, or those that are not ; and if it has to do with the things that are not up to us, be ready to reply, " It is nothing to me.

In addition to the religious problems which may arise, Michaud ( 2006 ) and Othman ( 2011 ) speculate that extraterrestrial contact may cause problems for global foreign relations, causing global political divisiveness over the involvement of radio astronomers worldwide in post-detection processes and over which bodies represent humanity as a whole in the wake of contact, as well as how, with what content, and whether a message should be sent in reply to what has been received from extraterrestrial intelligence.

A white woman once asked Tubman whether she believed women ought to have the vote, and received the reply: " I suffered enough to believe it.

At the 1680 assembly, he asked the estates whether he was still bound to the council, to which the estates gave him his desired reply: " he was not bound by anyone other than himself ", and thereby the absolute monarchy was formally established in Sweden.

Whenever asked as to whether he received any residuals from telecasts of the 1939 classic, Bolger would reply: " No, just immortality.

At the age of 15 to17, a similar ceremony is again held, again asking questions pertaining to the time since their Sehra as to whether they fully understands the expectation of Islam and Allah and is willing to stand as an adult, responsible for one's actions or words at which point he / she will reply " naam ".

Whenever he was asked whether mathematics was a science, Emil would reply unhesitatingly, “ No. An art .” His elegant elaboration of this idea is often cited, and worth repeating here: “ We all believe that mathematics is an art.

He states growing up that his father's only fear was his son would be like him, and that if asked whether Sullivan was a good man, he would simply reply: " He was my father.

Slavery was discussed only when Russell asked Yancey whether the international slave trade would be reopened by the Confederacy ( a position Yancey had advocated in recent years ); Yancey ’ s reply was that this was not part of the Confederacy ’ s agenda.

He was asked whether it was hard being a racing cyclist ; his reply was that being a French farmer was harder.

* A member is now required to make a statement in the House correcting the reply given by him or her earlier, irrespective of whether the reply given pertained to a starred or unstarred or a short notice question.

The reply of Alexander, who expressed his surprise at the desire of France to keep the intervention wholly French, was to offer to march 150, 000 Russians through Germany to Piedmont, where they could be held ready to act against any Jacobins, whether in Spain or France.

Unaware that this request had been made, and uncertain as to whether the message and request for a cease fire was a ruse on Nadir Khan's part, Dyer decided that he would not take any chances and sent the reply: " My guns will give an immediate reply, but your letter will be forwarded to the Divisional Commander ".

Daly's reply was followed in a week by a meeting with Lorde at which Ms. Daly said, among other things, that Gyn / Ecology was not a compendium of goddesses but limited to " those goddess myths and symbols that were direct sources of Christian myth ," but whether this was accepted by Ms. Lorde was unknown at the time.

After some debate as to whether the letter was a journalistic trick to uncover advance story details, Kneale eventually decided that it was genuine, and allowed Cartier to send a reply outlining the storyline's conclusion.

Prime Minister Louis Botha informed London that South Africa could defend itself and that the imperial garrison could depart for France ; when the British government asked Botha whether his forces would invade German South-West Africa, the reply was that they could and would.

Whether the publisher delayed in filfilling this request or Balakirev did not reply, no news was forthcoming as to whether Balakirev had received the score, so Tchaikovsky wrote to Balakirev in September 1881.

The Bureau's reply casts doubt on whether or not the JDMH ever really existed as a transcontinental highway:

Letter of the Samaritans to Artaxerxes, and reply of Artaxerxes: The " enemies of Judah and Benjamin " offer to help with the rebuilding, but are rebuffed ; they then work to frustrate the builders " down to the reign of Darius.

She wrote to a number of Goya's friends to complain of her exclusion but many of her friends were Goya's also and by then old men and had died, or died before they could reply.

Hitler dismissed Göring's concerns: " ut after all, he knows quite a lot of important people in England ", leading Göring to reply " Mein Führer, that may be right, but the bad thing is, they know him ".

they assume such omniscient beings, those endowed with the various superhuman faculties of assuming infinitesimal size, and so on, and capable of creating everything, then we reply that the law of parsimony bids us assume only one such, namely Him, the adorable Lord.

The tradeoff to client-side prediction was that sometimes other players or objects would no longer be quite where they had appeared to be, or, in extreme cases, that the player would be pulled back to a previous position when the client received a late reply from the server which overrode movement the client had already previewed ; this was known as " warping ".

The Caribbeans were skittled for 134 in reply and went on to lose the match, although they attacked the young leg-spinner, who took 1 / 130 in total from 36 overs.

At the end of each adventure, they would say bye-bye to each other and to the Little Weed-" Babap ickle Weed "-to which the Weed would inevitably reply with tremulous cadence " Weeeeeeeeeeed ".

[...] You are in the story, you speak to the shadows ( characters ) and they reply, and instead of being on a screen, the story is all about you, and you are in it.

Pujol received a reply that " we are sorry they arrived too late but your last reports were magnificent ".

Vostrikov orders a reply in the negative ; the men on the deck notice a crewman in the helicopter photographing them, and they drop their trousers and bare their buttocks at him.

The original petition has not been preserved but the Pope's reply refers to the " detestable custom ... in his land whereby the son of the handmaiden was equally heir with the son of the free woman and illegitimate sons obtained an inheritance as if they were legitimate ".

When they received the Soviet offer in November, they simply did not reply.

For that reason, even though courtesy reply mail and metered reply mail are mailed with a stamp or a postage-meter imprint, they typically carry an FIM code, namely FIM A, to indicate that the Postnet bar code is present.

Current Mixmaster software can be compiled to handle Cypherpunk messages as well ; they are needed as reply blocks for nym servers.

Udayana says that: they assume such omniscient beings, those endowed with the various superhuman faculties of assuming infinitesimal size, and so on, and capable of creating everything, then we reply that the law of parsimony bids us assume only one such, namely Him, the adorable Lord.

Briefly, in the first phase, one node ( the coordinator ) interrogates the other nodes ( the participants ) and only when all reply that they are prepared does the coordinator, in the second phase, formalize the transaction.

He has strongly urged me not to leave his Ministers in peace until they have introduced a bill for the expedition to Chatham Island .’, Lavaud stated in reply that he thought it better for the penal settlement to be at Banks Peninsula, because of the remoteness of the Chathams and the lack of suitable anchorage there.

A reply from the list server's system administrator, Brian Behlendorf, revealed that Parry originally wanted to create a list devoted to discussion of the music on the Rephlex label, but they decided together to expand its charter to include music similar to what was on Rephlex or that was in different genres but which had been made with similar approaches.

During the Cold War, Reece's statement that " The citizens of Danzig are German as they always had been " caused a reply from Polish leading emigrant in London-Jędrzej Giertych, writer, publicist and publisher of National Democratic backgroung.