Antonym: action. Similar words: take action, action, fraction, attraction, practitioner, interaction, transaction, react. Meaning: [rɪ'ækʃn] n. 1. a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude 2. a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent 3. (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others 4. an idea evoked by some experience 5. doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like 6. extreme conservatism in political or social matters 7. (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body.
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181. The organisers say it is not just a reaction to the recent carnage in Warrington.
182. She gripped his hands, his shirt, burying her face in his chest, hiding and laughing at her own reaction.
183. The reaction against this structure has produced forms of politics that do not fit into traditional political categories.
184. The news that no less than five new endings were shot due to poor reaction at the preview screenings hardly augers well.
185. Yet the reaction to date does not suggest that this idea has been widely accepted.
186. Perhaps the enormous anti-Gorbachev demonstrations in Moscow do add weight to that particular reaction.
187. Mrs Barnett, 35, suffered acute liver failure after a rare reaction to a drug.
188. Imagine the reaction if David Owen had appeared at Labour's 1989 conference.
189. As a reaction to those events some local associations organised a demonstration on October 23.
190. And her reaction to her illness was, as best I can glean, fraught with fear, discouragement, and depression.
191. But apparently the festival organizers had anticipated such a reaction, because a burly volunteer was blocking each door.
192. What was your reaction when you were first told you had cancer?
193. Protein molecules called enzymes are machines in the sense that each one causes a particular chemical reaction to take place.
194. The acid reaction of these soils has almost certainly been ameliorated by the addition of shelly sand from the adjacent machairs.
195. Whether a particular chemical reaction is likely to occur is related to the change in free energy involved.
196. Those original Contract polls were not thorough enough to anticipate public reaction to really stupid political behavior.
197. The heat released in this reaction, which is like a controlled hydrogen bomb explosion, is what makes the star shine.
198. Doctors call this reaction chronic inflammation to distinguish it from the immediate, acute reaction or injury or allergy.
199. Perhaps most telling was the campus reaction to the recent date-rape allegations. Sentencedict.com
200. Such has been the reaction of some advice workers to race awareness training and anti-racist training.
201. This surface reaction of oxygen and carbon releases carbon monoxide which migrates outward and upon encountering oxygen burns to carbon dioxide.
202. The challenge is now translating that reaction into road bike sales.
203. Baking is a science, a chemical reaction that starts in a mixing bowl, and low-fat baking is even more complex.
204. For most people, the reaction to a bee sting is swelling and pain.
205. Usually the same amount of heat is absorbed in the reverse reaction, when the oxygen is released by the haemoglobin.
206. The project seeks to chart the speed of reaction by entrants to profitable opportunities, and documents the principal barriers to entry.
207. Details of the polymerase chain reaction are given in a previous publication.
208. Such a reaction is both natural and understandable: the Constitution does exhibit those very characteristics.
209. Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
210. Employee response and reaction to CAD depends on their attitude and ability, as well as age.
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