Meaning of பதில் in English

Having a handle.
To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
To be or act in return or response to.
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.
To render account to or for.
To atone; to be punished for.
To be opposite to; to face.
To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.
To make a satisfactory response or return.
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.
To be or act in return.
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.
To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
A reply to a change; a defense.
Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
To answer a defendant's plea.
Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.
To return for an answer.
That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
Alt. of Respondency
The act of responding.
An answer or reply.
Reply to an objection in formal disputation.
The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service.
A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office.
A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.
The act of answering.
The first university examination; -- called also little go. See under Little, a.
Responsory; antiphonal.
Containing or making answer; answering.
The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service.
A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain.
An antiphonary; a response book.