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Shortened answer, such as "who walked the dog?" "Tom (did)"
Answer ellipsis (= answer fragments) is a type of ellipsis that occurs in answers to questions. Answer ellipsis appears very frequently in any dialogue
Answer_ellipsis
Omitted words still understood in context
Gapping Stripping Verb phrase ellipsis Pseudogapping Answer ellipsis Sluicing Nominal ellipsis Comparative deletion Null complement anaphora Among experts
Ellipsis_(linguistics)
Unit of syntax and morphology
as idiosyncratic meaning, ellipsis mechanisms (e.g. gapping, stripping, VP-ellipsis, pseudogapping, sluicing, answer ellipsis, comparative deletion), predicate-argument
Catena_(linguistics)
Word or a group of words
do-so-substitution, 5) one-substitution, 6) answer ellipsis (question test), 7) clefting, 8) VP-ellipsis, 9) pseudoclefting, 10) passivization, 11) omission
Constituent_(linguistics)
Sentence constituent
up their stance. For instance, topicalization, pseudoclefting, and answer ellipsis suggest that non-finite VP does, but finite VP does not, exist as a
Verb_phrase
Theory in linguistics
topicalization, clefting, pseudoclefting, pro-form substitution, answer ellipsis, passivization, omission, coordination, etc.) identify the constituents
Immediate constituent analysis
Immediate_constituent_analysis
Falso
In linguistics, 'Verb phrase ellipsis' (VP ellipsis or VPE) is a type of grammatical omission where a verb phrase is left out (elided) but its meaning
Verb_phrase_ellipsis
Clause type associated with questions
(See Answer ellipsis.) Also many (but not all) languages have words that function like the English 'yes' and 'no', used to give short answers to yes–no
Interrogative
A list of phenomena in syntax. Anaphora Agreement Answer ellipsis Antecedent-contained deletion Binding Case Clitics Control Coreference Differential
List_of_syntactic_phenomena
Long horizontal line punctuation mark
character to identify the source of a quoted text. In her book on ellipsis, Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission, Anne Toner suggests that
Dash
English word
"so" in conversation may be represented in text as "so" followed by an ellipsis: "...". Examples of dangling "so": "Yeah, it's pretty exciting, though
So_(word)
Ellipsis that occurs in some languages
is not a catena in (g). The other main forms of ellipsis (e.g. answer fragments, sluicing, VP-ellipsis, etc.) can also all be investigated in terms of
Gapping
Scottish rock band
1, Zane Lowe, Neil announced that the band's new album would be titled Ellipsis. The album, due for release on 8 July 2016, was made available to pre-order
Biffy_Clyro
1975 novel by Judy Blume
Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at number seven. The three ellipsis points at the end of the title are part of the title, and relate to the
Forever..._(novel)
1994 work of performance art
compiled a book, K Foundation Burn A Million Quid, which was published by Ellipsis Books in 1997. It compiles stills from the film, accounts of events and
K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid
2024 Indian film by Shirsha Guha Thakurta
Atul Kasbekar, and Swati Iyer Chawla under Applause Entertainment and Ellipsis Entertainment, the film stars Vidya Balan, Pratik Gandhi, Ileana D'Cruz
Do_Aur_Do_Pyaar
2020 video game
Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk (stylized in sentence case and with an ellipsis) is a 2020 psychological horror visual novel game developed by Russian
Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk
Milk_Inside_a_Bag_of_Milk_Inside_a_Bag_of_Milk
Smallest unit of speech
Prosodic features include stress, intonation, and tone of voice, as well as ellipsis, which are words that the listener inserts in spoken language to fill gaps
Utterance
Stripping or bare argument ellipsis is an ellipsis mechanism that elides everything from a clause except one constituent. It occurs exclusively in the
Stripping_(linguistics)
Irish musician and producer (born 1976)
the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2013. "Ed Sheeran Answers Questions". 1051 The Buzz. 9 April 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2013. "Ed
Johnny_McDaid
1929 novel by Elizabeth Bowen
ultimate example of ellipsis of the novel is the mill scene in which Marda Norton is shot. Corcoran explains the function and effect of ellipsis in the novel:
The_Last_September
Bolivian war hero (1838–1879)
C157-162). The stamps quoted his last words, eliding "carajo" with an ellipsis. Eduardo Abaroa Province is named in his honor, as is Eduardo Avaroa Andean
Eduardo_Abaroa
Series of fantasy novels by Piers Anthony
Isle of View, it is revealed that summoning the stork will release an "ellipsis" (...) into the air to fly off to the stork. This is a play on the joke
Xanth
2018 film by Brad Bird
after the first, Bird did not want to use a narrative element like an ellipsis or to come up with new characters, and instead continued from where the
Incredibles_2
Australian actor
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Actor in Television Drama for Answered by Fire (2006) – winner Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for 300
David_Wenham
gathering mushrooms The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzélé Pygmies. Ellipsis Arts. 1. Bill Evans & Jim Hall "My Funny Valentine" Undercurrent. Green
List of Private Passions episodes (2020–present)
List_of_Private_Passions_episodes_(2020–present)
American fantasy-comedy television series (2016–2020)
Presents: The Selection), directed by Eric Kissack. The series, set during an ellipsis taking place during the season 3 episode 11: "Chidi Sees the Time-Knife"
The_Good_Place
Formal argument for the existence of God
388 Dawson 1997, pp. 6. Dawson 1997, pp. 210–212. Wang 1996, p. 317. The ellipsis is Wikipedia's. Wang 1996, p. 51. Gödel's proof is reprinted on p.403-404
Gödel's_ontological_proof
1982 studio album by Brian Eno
41367 2 7) 18, 19, 20. OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948–80 (Ellipsis Arts, 2000) features the track "Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) 21. Shutter
Ambient_4:_On_Land
2007 film by Ethan and Joel Coen
service (link) Spurgeon, Sara L. (2011), Part 2, Chapter 5: "Levels of Ellipsis in No Country for Old Men", p. 102, by Ellis, Jay. Miles, David (April
No_Country_for_Old_Men
American art critic and philosopher (1924–2013)
of view (has a style) (iii) by means of rhetorical ellipsis (usually metaphorical) which ellipsis engages audience participation in filling in what is
Arthur_Danto
Templates in computer programming
below. In practice, the use of an ellipsis operator in the code causes the whole expression that precedes the ellipsis to be repeated for every subsequent
Variadic_template
Television series with complex plots based on mysterious secrets
end, when they can be said to end at all, in irresolution, deferral and ellipsis". The format has also been criticized as being ultimately predictable.
Mystery_box_show
1988 Japanese animated film
Dillon, Matthew (31 May 2024). "Grave of the Fireflies: A Cry to Remember". Ellipsis a Journal of Art Ideas and Literature. doi:10.46428/ejail.49.26. Yamamura
Grave_of_the_Fireflies
1791 amendment enumerating due process rights
This draft was edited by Congress; all the material before the first ellipsis was placed at the end, and some of the wording was modified. After approval
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
2023 film by Wes Anderson
that night, while the convention guests are observing an astronomical ellipsis, a UFO suddenly appears above the crater; an alien emerges and steals the
Asteroid_City
Style of journalism
relied heavily on verb-driven syntax along with metaphors, allusions, ellipsis and more. Critics essay this was used to create feelings of despair, degradation
Gonzo_journalism
Used to count, measure, and label
sequence of digits that follows a cyclical pattern, it can be written with an ellipsis or another notation that indicates the repeating pattern. Such a decimal
Number
Discography of Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro
number 23 in Scotland and number 28 in the UK. Biffy's seventh studio album Ellipsis followed in 2016, following its predecessor in topping the charts in both
Biffy_Clyro_discography
2009 American TV series or program
physical or mental issues or circumstances during their pregnancies. The ellipsis in the series title acts as a blank, filled in by the title of the week's
I'm_Pregnant_and...
American civil rights activist (1925–1965)
1992, p. 199. Natambu 2002, p. 121. Malcolm X, Autobiography, p. 178; ellipsis in original. Perry 1991, pp. 108–110, 118. Natambu 2002, pp. 127–128, 132–138
Malcolm_X
1995 single by Tina Arena
in September 1995 by Columbia Records, the title was rendered with an ellipsis ("Wasn't It Good..."). Arena has performed the song on most tours, including
Wasn't It Good (Tina Arena song)
Wasn't_It_Good_(Tina_Arena_song)
Love that is not reciprocated
dwells most upon a woman won or a woman lost is a question not easily answered. The Petrarchan sonneteer, however, would have no doubts about the matter:
Unrequited_love
1944 American survival film by Alfred Hitchcock
December 31, 1943. Retrieved 29 September 2024. Farber, 2009 p. 143-144: ellipsis added for brevity, clarity Agee, James - Agee on Film Vol. 1 © 1958 by
Lifeboat_(1944_film)
Mathematical framework for natural language processing
hypernymy Ambiguity with density matrices Discourse analysis Anaphora and ellipsis Language evolution The DisCoCat framework has been applied to solve the
DisCoCat
Painting by Thomas Cole
2010. Parry, 126 Attributed to Panofsky in fn. 3, Parry, 123 Quoted with ellipsis in Parry, 126 Parry, 131 Quoted from Joseph Gwilt, translator, in Parry
The_Titan's_Goblet
Syntactical occurrence
talked.3MS with 'Who did Ali talk with?' Sluicing is a specific type of ellipsis that involves wh-phrases. In sluicing, the wh-phrase is stranded while
Preposition_stranding
1968 song written and composed by Paul Simon
" Thom Jurek of Allmusic described the song's central question as an "ellipsis, a cipher, an unanswerable question", a song in which "sophisticated harmonic
America (Simon & Garfunkel song)
America_(Simon_&_Garfunkel_song)
English actor (born 1985)
Retrieved 3 March 2019. Bayley, Nikki (2–8 February 2019). "You ask...they answer! Peter Ash". Inside Soap. No. 5. pp. 52–53. Allcock, Beth (20 December 2018)
Peter_Ash
Ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantic analysis systems
from new areas of studies in computational semantics, viz., Coreference, Ellipsis, Keyphrase Extraction, Noun Compounds and Textual Entailment. SemEval-2012
SemEval
1935 United States Supreme Court case
the government. — Humphrey's Executor, 295 U.S. at 624, 625–26 (third ellipsis in original). Second, the Court said that Congress had intended FTC commissioners
Humphrey's Executor v. United States
Humphrey's_Executor_v._United_States
Seventh planet from the Sun
orbit nearly circular to the sun as a Comet moving in a very eccentric ellipsis. I have not yet seen any coma or tail to it." Although Herschel continued
Uranus
Punctuation in the Slovene language
Prodajam časopise, avtobusne žetone, zobne ščetke itd.. Syntactical use An ellipsis (in Slovene, literally 'three dots') (...) is a non-leaning punctuation
Slovene_punctuation
Question form found in Chinese languages
and negative possibilities. Instead of allowing a simple "yes" or "no" answer, these questions require the respondent to repeat either the positive or
A-not-A_question
Small set of grammatically distinctive verbs of English
The same as "code" as the third criterion of NICE. The possibility of ellipsis with will, may, might, can't, should, needn't and have (and indeed to)
English_auxiliary_verbs
Development of the mathematical function
119–120. Christiaan Huygens (1651) Theoremata de quadratura hyperboles, ellipsis, et circulari James Gregory (1667) Quadraturii di Circuli et Hyperbole
History_of_logarithms
American actress (1894–1968)
changes to punctuation for clarity, italics added for same. Quoted here, ellipsis in O'Dell And p. 157: Bibliography: footnote no. 1, Mae Marsh in Screen
Mae_Marsh
Branch of linguistics concerned with how to express a given concept
and derivations, which are, very consciously, not further subclassified) ellipsis (i.e. morpheme deletion, e.g. the noun daily from daily newspaper) clipping
Onomasiology
Japanese dialect
the quotation particles to and te (equivalent to tte in standard). The ellipsis of to and te happens only before two verbs: yū (to say) and omou (to think)
Kansai_dialect
"Shadow vs Executioner" mix)" Ellipsis Scorn 11:30 CD, 5×12″ 1995 "Dreamscape (Unstable Sidereal Oneiroscopic mix)" Ellipsis Scorn 4:45 5×12″ 1995 "The Downward
Coil_discography
Extinct Karluk Turkic language
preceding a direct quote. Colons can also mark beginning of dialogue ... Ellipsis: Ellipsis: a series of dots (typically 3) that indicate missing text.
Chagatai_language
Functional part of speech in most languages
general types of ellipsis. In particular, in English, the predicative expression may be elided in a construction similar to verb phrase ellipsis, as in short
Copula_(linguistics)
Algorithmic process of solving equations
like(j, m) ∧ R(p) and the value of R (the semantic representation of the ellipsis) is determined by the equation like(j, m) = R(j) . The process of solving
Unification (computer science)
Unification_(computer_science)
Storage size operator in C and C++
} C++11 introduced variadic templates; the keyword sizeof followed by ellipsis returns the number of elements in a parameter pack. template <typename
Sizeof
Class of auxiliary verbs in English that lack untensed forms
to after ought in questions tags. It is also possible to omit to using ellipsis or in negatives. Ought is used with meanings similar to those of should
English_modal_auxiliary_verbs
English writer and politician (1633–1703)
editor." Wheatley claims to have indicated all such omissions with an ellipsis, but comparison with the modern text indicates that he did not always do
Samuel_Pepys
Race and the 28th President of the United States
holders, men who knew none of the uses of authority, except its insolences. [Ellipsis in the original.] ....The policy of the congressional leaders wrought.
Woodrow_Wilson_and_race
French philosopher (1930–2004)
Writing and Difference. "Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book" and "Ellipsis" in Writing and Difference, pp. 64–78 and 295–300. "La Parole soufflée"
Jacques_Derrida
Film by Zhang Yimou
melodic motif — sometimes described by critics as functioning like an aural ellipsis — recurs at the family's successive turning points, conferring a sense
To_Live_(1994_film)
Medieval English sex worker
Uckelman, S. (2012). "Index of Names in the 1381 Suffolk Poll Tax". Ellipsis. Retrieved 3 May 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service
John/Eleanor_Rykener
Act of typing and sending a brief, digital message
mediums, rather than texting. In some text messaging software products, an ellipsis is displayed while the interlocutor is typing characters. The feature has
Text_messaging
Linguistic formalism
playing a key role in accounts of contrastive focus, ellipsis, deaccenting, and question-answer congruence. The empirical motivation for the squiggle
Squiggle_operator
Fictional character in Red Dwarf
and general ridicule. After he is killed by a radiation leak during an ellipsis in the series' first episode "The End" (1988) Rimmer is present for most
Arnold_Rimmer
Language in which certain pronouns may sometimes be omitted
In informal speech, the pronominal subject is sometimes dropped. The ellipsis has been called "conversational deletion" and "left-edge deletion", and
Pro-drop_language
Norms for writing the English language
rare or unique (such as ⟨gh⟩ for /p/, ⟨ph⟩ for /v/, ⟨i⟩ for /ɑː/). An ellipsis (⟨…⟩) stands for an intervening consonant. Arranged in the order of the
English_orthography
Epic poem attributed to Homer
[citation needed] The title Ἰλιάς (Ilias; gen. Ἰλιάδος, Iliados) is an ellipsis of "ἡ ποίησις Ἰλιάς, he poíesis Iliás", meaning "the Ilian (Trojan) poem"
Iliad
Sentences of the form "if x, then y"
is understood from the context. It may also be shortened by verb phrase ellipsis; a minimal conditional sentence could therefore be something like "Would
English_conditional_sentences
1979 film
explicit (using the ellipsis so present in his films) ancient deep questions where there were, perhaps, only superficial recent answers." Norman Briski as
Heart_of_the_Forest
American political scientist (born 1953)
chastely separated from the preceding sentence by a demure three-point ellipsis. As my associate Kate Levin has discovered, this passage ("To cite a source
Norman_Finkelstein
Verse of the New Testament
discredited background (see my Introduction n. 25), and the introduction of an ellipsis into a clause which is itself complete, the Kroegers rewrite v. 12". Details
1_Timothy_2:12
US professional boxer and wrestler (1910–1979)
thinking of calling it the Galentoid. It is somewhere between a sphere and an ellipsis [sic], with overtones of parabola. It is covered with hair, and holds two
Tony_Galento
Mathematical set that can be enumerated
and error-prone. Instead of listing every single element, sometimes an ellipsis ("...") is used to represent many elements between the starting element
Countable_set
Infinite sum
common to express series using a few first terms, an ellipsis, a general term, and then a final ellipsis, the general term being an expression of the n
Series_(mathematics)
Amateur scientific research
Alliance to End Plastic Waste. 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019. "Ellipsis". Ellipsis Environmental. 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2019. "The Plastic Tide"
Citizen_science
1991 studio album by Hole
others. On The Chart Show on Channel 4, the song's title was censored with ellipsis in place of the word "whore". The single's success in the United Kingdom
Pretty_on_the_Inside
Dutch mathematician and physicist (1629–1695)
Huygens's first publication was Theoremata de Quadratura Hyperboles, Ellipsis et Circuli (Theorems on the quadrature of the hyperbola, ellipse, and circle)
Christiaan_Huygens
Legendary Knight of Charlemagne
attquent l'armée de Charles: grande est la mêlée et le combat terrible..." (ellipsis hers) omitting also the mention of the English princess. Cf. Butts's abridged
Ogier_the_Dane
Grammar of the English language
certain redundant elements. Various examples are given in the article on Ellipsis. Some notable elliptical forms found in English include: Short statements
English_grammar
Adjectives in the English language
poor could not or *some poor did). Other grammars see this as a case of ellipsis, where the head noun is simply left out and the AdjP is a regular modifier
English_adjectives
to-infinitive may be reduced to simply to: "Do I have to?" See verb phrase ellipsis. For perfect and progressive infinitives, such as (to) have written and
Uses_of_English_verb_forms
American former slave and participant in John Brown's Raid (1836–1859)
there were, but a braver men [sic] never lived than Shields Green'... [Ellipsis in the original.] Frederick Douglass said, 'If a monument should be erected
Shields_Green
; Doino, William Jr. (16 September 2010). "Pius XII and the Distorting Ellipsis". First Things. Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Wilensky
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Pope_Pius_XII_and_the_Holocaust
Chinese varieties spoken at and south of the Yangtze delta
'every bucket' /dao113>341 dao113>0/ (Tangxinese [zh]) Contractions and ellipsis Specification 板凳; '(plank) chair' /pɛ̃34>44 təŋ53/ (Xiaoshanese [zh]) Erhua
Wu_Chinese
Basic word order type
doi:10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00099-8. Merchant, Jason (2013). "Voice and Ellipsis". Linguistic Inquiry. 44 (1): 77–108. doi:10.1162/LING_a_00120. ISSN 0024-3892
Verb–object–subject word order
Verb–object–subject_word_order
Cuban astrophysicist (born 1963)
Faculty Archived 2007-10-19 at the Wayback Machine Never trust a creationist ellipsis — Hector Avalos on the Gonzalez emails Archived 2007-12-14 at the Wayback
Guillermo Gonzalez (astronomer)
Guillermo_Gonzalez_(astronomer)
Short story by Charles R. Jackson
[Jackson's] alter ego...” Bailey, 2013 (2) p. xx Bailey, 2013 (2) p. xx: Ellipsis in Bailey Bailey, 2013 (1) p. 298-299: quoted here Jackson, 2013 p. 272
The_Boy_Who_Ran_Away
2023 film by Paul Mignot and Vincent Mottez
reactionary intent is also evident in its lack of context, and the abrupt ellipsis in the course of the film: ‘We make a monstrous historical leap between
Vaincre_ou_mourir
Development of mathematics in South Asia
Extreme brevity was achieved through multiple means, which included using ellipsis "beyond the tolerance of natural language", using technical names instead
Indian_mathematics
Quality of zero being an even number
certainly divide 0 by p, and the answer is 0, which we can divide by p, and the answer is 0, which we can divide by p…" (ellipsis in original) Krantz 2001, p
Parity_of_zero
Programming language with English-like syntax
CODASYL Executive Committee later created the COBOL Maintenance Committee to answer questions from users and vendors and to improve and expand the specifications
COBOL
ANSWER ELLIPSIS
ANSWER ELLIPSIS
Female
Welsh
Welsh name ANWEN means "very fair."Â
Boy/Male
Hebrew
Answer of God; God answers.
Girl/Female
Anglo Saxon
Answer.
Male
French
Contracted form of French Anselme, ANSEL means "divine helmet."
Boy/Male
Hebrew
Happy. In the old Testament, Asher was one of Jacob's sons.
Female
Scottish
Pet form of English/Scottish Anstice, ANSTEY means "resurrection."
Boy/Male
Hebrew
Answer of God; God answers.
Boy/Male
Indian
The first people who converted to the religion of Islam were the people of Ansar
Female
English
Pet form of English/Irish Anstice, ANSTEY means "resurrection."
Girl/Female
Anglo Saxon
Answer.
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
Answer
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Devotee of God; Lustrous; Shiny (Moor); Brightest; Most Brilliant; More Radiant; Variant of Anwar
Girl/Female
Danish, Hebrew, Indian, Latin
God's Answer
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Chinese
Answer
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Answer
Male
Swedish
 Swedish form of Old Norse Arnþórr, ANDER means "eagle of Thor." Compare with another form of Ander.
Male
Yiddish
(×Ö·× Ö°×©×ֶעל) Yiddish pet form of Hebrew Asher, ANSHEL means "happy."
Biblical
answer; song; affliction
Boy/Male
Hebrew
Answer of God; God answers.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Answer, song, affliction.
ANSWER ELLIPSIS
ANSWER ELLIPSIS
Boy/Male
Sikh
Brave lion
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Soft Nature; Name of Siva; The Moon
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Indian
Star
Boy/Male
Slavic Russian
Glory.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, English
Flute Player; A Young Dove; Piper
Male
Swedish
Swedish pet form of Scandinavian Ludvig, LUDDE means "famous warrior."Â
Female
Spanish
Latin name derived from (dies) natalis, NATALIA means "birthday," or in Church Latin "Christmas day." In use by the Spanish.
Boy/Male
Australian, Biblical, British, English, French, German, Greek, Latin
Friend of God; Loved by God
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit, Telugu
Fire; Flame
Boy/Male
Indian
Happy
ANSWER ELLIPSIS
ANSWER ELLIPSIS
ANSWER ELLIPSIS
ANSWER ELLIPSIS
ANSWER ELLIPSIS
n.
A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
n.
An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
v. t.
To answer; to reply.
a.
Having no answer, or impossible to be answered.
v. i.
To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Answer
n.
To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.
n.
Same as Bez-antler.
n.
To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
v. i.
To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
n.
An answer; a reply.
n.
One who answers.
v. t.
To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.
imp. & p. p.
of Answer
n.
An answer; a response.
v. i.
To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
v. t.
To answer; to echo.
v. t. & i.
To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
n.
An answer or reply.
a.
Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.