RETORT
\ɹɪtˈɔːt], \ɹɪtˈɔːt], \ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈɔː_t]\
Definitions of RETORT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
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To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
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To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
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The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.
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A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
By Oddity Software
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To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
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To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
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To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
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The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.
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A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
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To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
By Noah Webster.
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The reply to an argument, taunt, etc.; a quick and witty or severe response; a vessel used in distilling by heat.
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To return, as an argument or accusation; to say in sharp reply.
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To make a quick, sharp answer; to return an argument or a charge.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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To throw back: to return.
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A ready and sharp reply: a witty answer: a vessel used in distillation, properly a spiral tube.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To say in sharp rejoinder; reply sharply.
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A vessel with a bent tube, for distillation.
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A retaliatory speech.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A sharp reply; a vessel used in distilling and decomposing substances.
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To throw back; to return, as an argument, a charge, &c; to bend or curve back.
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To make a severe reply.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To return or throw back, as an argument, an accusation, or an incivility; to make a severe reply.
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The return of an argument, censure, or incivility; a severe reply; a round-shaped chemical vessel having a long bent neck; an iron or fire-clay cylinder in a gaswork for charging with coal to be converted into gas; a distilling apparatus.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A vessel, commonly of glass or earthenware, employed in distillation. It may be plain, or have a tubulure for admitting substances whilst the distillation is going on. In the latter case, it is said to be tubulated, (F.) Cornue tubulee.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
