react
IPA: riˈækt
noun
- (Internet) An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.
verb
- (intransitive) To act in response.
- (transitive, now rare) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
- (physics, intransitive) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; 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 a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
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Examples of "react" in Sentences
- HANSEN: So, how did the label react when you presented them with "King of Anything"?
- That sense of discovering your characters and how they react is part of the joy of writing fiction for me.
- Friends and fans of tennis phenomenon Melanie Oudin react to her latest success in climbing the ranks at the U.S.
- C: Speaking of recording East of Eden in Pakistan, how did your label react when you told them that's what you wanted to do?
- CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Carville, Matalin react to mocking from SNL « - Blogs from CNN. com
- Seth's story about how corporations react is classic, and typical of micro thinking - something that, yep you guessed it, I attribute to the profusion of MBAs, PR people and lawyers.
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