Fromre- +act.
react (third-person singular simple presentreacts,present participlereacting,simple past and past participlereacted)
- (intransitive) Toact inresponse.
How did shereact to the news?
- (transitive, now rare) To act orperform a second time; to do over again; toreenact.[from 17th c.]
1791,Thomas Paine,Rights of Man:It is somewhat extraordinary, that the offence for which James II, was expelled, that of setting up power byassumption, should bere-acted, under another shape and form, by the parliament that expelled him.
- (physics, intransitive) Toreturn animpulse or impression; toresist the action of another body by anopposite force
Every bodyreacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; toexercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or morechemicalagents; to act in opposition.
- (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
- (Internet, intransitive) To post areaction(icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
to act or perform a second time
to return an impulse or impression
to act upon each other (in chemistry)
Translations to be checked
react (pluralreacts)
- (Internet) Anemoji used to express a reaction to a post onsocial media.
Sadreacts only
- Carte,creat,acter,Certa,carte,crate,cater,caret,Cater,Trace,trace,recta
Pseudo-anglicism.
- (Brazil)IPA(key): /ʁeˈa.ki.t͡ʃi/[heˈa.ki.t͡ʃi],/ʁeˈak.t͡ʃi/[heˈak.t͡ʃi],/ʁiˈɛ.ki.t͡ʃi/[hɪˈɛ.ki.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈʁjɛ.ki.t͡ʃi/[ˈhjɛ.ki.t͡ʃi],/ʁiˈɛk.t͡ʃi/[hɪˈɛk.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈʁjɛk.t͡ʃi/[ˈhjɛk.t͡ʃi]
- (Brazil)IPA(key): /ʁeˈa.ki.t͡ʃi/[heˈa.ki.t͡ʃi],/ʁeˈak.t͡ʃi/[heˈak.t͡ʃi],/ʁiˈɛ.ki.t͡ʃi/[hɪˈɛ.ki.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈʁjɛ.ki.t͡ʃi/[ˈhjɛ.ki.t͡ʃi],/ʁiˈɛk.t͡ʃi/[hɪˈɛk.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈʁjɛk.t͡ʃi/[ˈhjɛk.t͡ʃi]
- (Rio de Janeiro)IPA(key): /ʁeˈa.ki.t͡ʃi/[χeˈa.ki.t͡ʃi],/ʁeˈak.t͡ʃi/[χeˈak.t͡ʃi],/ʁiˈɛ.ki.t͡ʃi/[χɪˈɛ.ki.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈʁjɛ.ki.t͡ʃi/[ˈχjɛ.ki.t͡ʃi],/ʁiˈɛk.t͡ʃi/[χɪˈɛk.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈʁjɛk.t͡ʃi/[ˈχjɛk.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil)IPA(key): /ʁeˈak.t͡ʃi/[heˈak.t͡ʃi],/ʁeˈa.ki.t͡ʃi/[heˈa.ki.t͡ʃi],/ʁiˈɛk.t͡ʃi/[hɪˈɛk.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈʁjɛk.t͡ʃi/[ˈhjɛk.t͡ʃi],/ʁiˈɛ.ki.t͡ʃi/[hɪˈɛ.ki.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈʁjɛ.ki.t͡ʃi/[ˈhjɛ.ki.t͡ʃi]
react m (pluralreacts)
- (Brazil, Internetslang) a videoreviewing orresponding another video (not necessarily as a real-time reaction)
