React

re-akt', v. t. To act or perform a second time, do over again. — v. i. To resist the action of another body by an opposite force; to produce or exhibit opposite effect or condition from that which has previously been produced or exhibited; to exercise a reciprocal or reverse effect. — Reac'tion, n. Any action in resisting other action or power; counter tendency or movement. (Chem.) The mutual reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other. (Med.) Depre ion or exhaustion of vital force consequent on over-exertion or over-stimulation; or vital excitement and recuperation following depre ion or exhaustion. (Mech.) Force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon that body in the opposite direction. (Politics.) Backward tendency from revolution, reform, or progre . — Reactionary, -a-rT, -ist, a. For, or implying, reaction. — n. (Politics.) One anxious to undo reform, or to return to an outgrown condition of things. — Reactive, -iv, a. Having power to react; tending to reaction^ Read, red, v. t. [kkad (red), reading (redoing).] go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense (language); to peruse; to know fully, comprehend; to gather the meaning of by inspection, learn by observation. — v. i. To perform the act of reading; be studious; to learn by reading; to appear in reading.—a. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.— Read'able, a. Capable of being read; fit, legible, or suitable to be read; worth reading. — Reading, n. Act of one who reads; perusal; study of books; the way in which anything reads; lection; version; learning.