replicator = R = restriction

reply n.

See followup.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

In an ack-nak protocol, the reply is a message sent in response to a message received. The reply can be either a simple acknowledgement that the message was received (or not), or the information the original message solicited.

Re*ply" (r?-pl?"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Replied (-pl?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Replying.] [OE. replien, OF. replier, F. r'epliquer, fr. L. replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Replica.]

1.

To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Rom. ix. 20.

2. Law

To answer a defendant's plea.

3.

Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.

Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin.

 

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Re*ply", v. t.

To return for an answer.

Milton.

Lords, vouchsafe To give me hearing what I shall reply. Shak.

 

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Re*ply", n.; pl. Replies (-plz"). [See Reply, v. i., and cf. Replica.]

That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.

Syn. -- Answer; rejoinder; response. -- Reply, Rejoinder, Answer. A reply is a distinct response to a formal question or attack in speech or writing. A rejoinder is a second reply (a reply to a reply) in a protracted discussion or controversy. The word answer is used in two senses, namely (1), in the most general sense of a mere response; as, the answer to a question; or (2), in the sense of a decisive and satisfactory confutation of an adversary's argument, as when we speak of a triumphant answer to the speech or accusations of an opponent. Here the noun corresponds to a frequent use of the verb, as when we say. "This will answer (i.e., fully meet) the end in view;" "It answers the purpose."

 

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