English Dictionary

respect

/ɹɪˈspɛkt/

verb

To have respect for. / To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right. / To abide by an agreement. / To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.

I respect my elders.

意味（1）

To have respect for.

She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.

意味（2）

To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.

I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.

意味（3）

To abide by an agreement.

They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.

意味（4）

To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.

[T]hou reſpecteſt not ſpilling Edwards bloud: …

意味（5）

(transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.

Whatever they are else, they are always chastisements; and correction respects faults.

意味（6）

(obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.

[T]his my friend (knowen by no name) was found, / Being then a child and ſcarce of power to ſpeake, / To whom my father gaue this name of Gaſper, / And as his own reſpected him to death, …

[T]his my friend (knowen by no name) was found, / Being then a child and ſcarce of power to ſpeake, / To whom my father gaue this name of Gaſper, / And as his own reſpected him to death, … That is, regarded him as his own.

意味（7）

(obsolete) To look toward; to face.

That Palladius adviſeth the front of his edifice ſhould ſo reſpect the South, that in the firſt angle it receive the riſing raies of the winter Sunne, and decline a little from the winter ſetting thereof.