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{
"term": "react",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "react",
"heSheIt": "reacts"
},
"pastSimple": "reacted",
"pastParticiple": "reacted",
"ingForm": "reacting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to change or behave in a particular way as a result of or in response to something",
"sensetop": "react to somethingreact by doing somethingreact to something by doing somethingreact with something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I nudged her but she didn't react."
},
{
"text": "You never know how he is going to react."
},
{
"text": "He would have reacted in the same way."
},
{
"text": "Local residents have **reacted angrily** to the news.",
"contextForm": "react to something"
},
{
"text": "The market reacted by falling a further two points.",
"contextForm": "react by doing something"
},
{
"text": "The army has reacted to the situation by increasing investment in recruitment.",
"contextForm": "react to something by doing something"
},
{
"text": "Her family reacted with horror when she told them.",
"contextForm": "react with something"
},
{
"text": "Residents have reacted with fury to the news."
},
{
"text": "His insensitive remarks hurt and she reacted accordingly."
},
{
"text": "The committee reacted positively to the proposals."
},
{
"text": "The government reacted by increasing taxation."
},
{
"text": "The industry has been slow to react to these breakthroughs in technology."
},
{
"text": "The police must be able to react swiftly in an emergency."
},
{
"text": "people who react positively to change"
}
],
"topics": ["Change, cause and effect"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["strongly", "favourably/favorably", "positively"],
"verb + react": ["tend to", "be slow to", "not know how to"],
"preposition": ["against", "by", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to become ill after eating, breathing, etc. a particular substance",
"sensetop": "react + adv.react (+ adv.) to something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some patients may react adversely.",
"contextForm": "react + adv."
},
{
"text": "People can react badly to certain food additives.",
"contextForm": "react (+ adv.) to something"
},
{
"text": "People react differently to these drugs."
}
],
"topics": ["Health problems"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["strongly", "favourably/favorably", "positively"],
"verb + react": ["tend to", "be slow to", "not know how to"],
"preposition": ["against", "by", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to experience a chemical change when coming into contact with another substance",
"sensetop": "react with somethingreact together",
"labels": "(chemistry)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Silicon reacts chemically like carbon."
},
{
"text": "Iron reacts with water and air to produce rust.",
"contextForm": "react with something"
},
{
"text": "When an acid and an alkali react together the result is a salt and water.",
"contextForm": "react together"
}
],
"topics": ["Physics and chemistry"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["strongly", "favourably/favorably", "positively"],
"verb + react": ["tend to", "be slow to", "not know how to"],
"preposition": ["against", "by", "to"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/riˈækt/",
"audio": "re/react/react__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/riˈækts/",
"audio": "re/react/reacts__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/riˈæktɪd/",
"audio": "re/react/reacted__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/riˈæktɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/react/reacting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/riˈækt/",
"audio": "re/react/react__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/riˈækts/",
"audio": "re/react/reacts__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/riˈæktɪd/",
"audio": "re/react/reacted__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/riˈæktɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/react/reacting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from re- (expressing intensive force or reversal) + act, originally suggested by medieval Latin react- ‘done again’, from the verb reagere."
}