retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin
(verb) answer back
rejoin
(verb) join again
Source: WordNet® 3.1
rejoin (third-person singular simple present rejoins, present participle rejoining, simple past and past participle rejoined)
To join again; to unite after separation.
To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
(archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
(archaic, intransitive): To answer to a reply.
(legal, intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
(patent law, non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).
• Joiner, joiner
Source: Wiktionary
Re*join" (r-join"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejoined (-joind"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoining.] Etym: [F. rejoindre; pref. re- re- + joindre to join. See Join, and cf. Rejoinder.]
1. To join again; to unite after separation.
2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot. Pope.
3. To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
Re*join", v. i.
1. To answer to a reply.
2. (Law)
Definition: To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 April 2024
(verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something; “We finally decided after lengthy deliberations”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
