Reaction

Definition

reaction /ri'ækʃn/ n ၁။ [U, C] ~ (to sb/sth) တံု႔ျပန္ခ်က္။ What was his reaction to the news? ❍ My immediate reaction was one of disbelief. ❍ the shocked, reaction of schools to the education cuts ❍ The new play got rather a mixed reaction from the audience. ၂။ [sing] မတည့္သည့္လကၡဏာျပျခင္း။ မတည့္ျခင္း။ have an allergic reaction to dairy products ❍ I had a bad reaction after my typhoid injection. ၃။ [sing, U] ~ (against sth) တံု႔ျပန္ခ်က္။ တန္ျပန္ျဖစ္ေပၚမႈ။ This permissiveness was a reaction against Victorian puritanism. ၄။ [U] (တိုးတက္ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈကို)ဆန္႔က်င္ျခင္း။ (ႏိုင္ငံေရး)ေဖာက္ျပန္ေရး။ The forces of reaction made change difficult. ၅။ [U, C] ဓာတ္ျပဳမႈ။ nuclear reaction. See also CHAIN REACTION ❏ reactionary /ri'ækʃǝnri; US -neri/ n, adj ေဖာက္ျပန္ေရး ဝါဒီ။ ေဖာက္ျပန္ေရးအင္အားစု။ a reactionary government ❍ reactionary forces.

Examples

1. My mother’s initial reaction was quite unexpected.
2. The reaction of any individual trauma victim is difficult to predict.
3. [reaction to] : Shock is a natural reaction to such bad news.
4. [reaction to] : Some people’s skin has an allergic reaction to certain types of fabric.
5. [have/suffer a reaction] : He suffered a violent reaction to the medicine.
6. A tragedy was only prevented by the driver’s quick reactions.
7. Temperature can affect the rate of a chemical reaction.
8. [reaction between] : We are studying reactions between a number of metals and acids.
9. A nuclear reaction
10. Newton teaches that action and reaction are equal and opposite.
11. [reaction against] : The reaction against traditional styles continued for another 50 years.
12. The forces of reaction