answering
Picking up phone
Answering is the act of responding to a question, call, or summons.
An answering machine records messages when no one picks up.
An answering service handles calls for a business.
Something that answers to a description matches it: a man answering to that name.
To have much answering to do is to face accountability for one's actions.
Exchange of spoken ideas
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
- back-and-forthAlternating reciprocal motion
Q&A · interview · interrogation · questioning · inquiry · querying · probing · cross-examination
Answer to stimulus
- retortQuick, cutting reply
- rejoinderReply to a reply
- riposteSwift clever reply
- comebackRecovery after decline
rebuttal · counter · repartee · clapback · refutation · counterargument · defense · justification
Hinged room barrier
- phoneHandheld communication device
- doorbellEntry alert device
- knockStrike-produced sound
- callContact by phone
ring · pickup · hello · greeting · receptionist · operator · switchboard · hotline
conversation
Exchange of spoken ideas
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
back-and-forth · Q&A · interview · interrogation · questioning · inquiry · querying · probing · cross-examination · deposition
response
Answer to stimulus
comeback · rebuttal · counter · repartee · clapback · refutation · counterargument · defense · justification · explanation
door
Hinged room barrier
call · ring · pickup · hello · greeting · receptionist · operator · switchboard · hotline · helpline
solving
Finding the answer
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- keyLock-opening device
- explanationStatement making something clear
decoding · cracking · puzzle · riddle · problem · equation · clue · correct · right · wrong
letter
Written symbol or message
inbox · penpal · postal · message · memo · voicemail · callback · acknowledgment · receipt · confirmation
- communicatingtalking, speaking, telling, sharing, expressing
- conversationlistening, talk, talking, chat, speaking
- gerundswalking, running, talking, eating, sleeping
- teachingteaching, lesson plans, instructing, educating, courses
- Test-taking actionsguessing, bubbling, circling, marking, erasing
- communicationtelephone, conversation, inform, hand signal, messages
answeringignoring
Deliberately not noticing
not responding · silence · unresponsive · silent · disregarding
answeringasking
Posing questions
questioning · inquiring · querying · interrogating · requesting
- answering machineTelephone message recorder
- answering the callActing when needed
- answering toBeing subordinate to someone
- answering forAccepting responsibility for another
- answering backRude retort to authority
- answering servicePhone-handling business