# Respond

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{{short description|Vertical support on one side of an arch}}
{{Other uses|Response (disambiguation)}}

In [architecture](/source/architecture), a '''respond''' is a half-[pier](/source/Pier_(architecture)) or half-pillar that is bonded into a wall and designed to carry the [springer](/source/springer_(architecture)) at one end of an [arch](/source/arch).<ref>{{Citation | last =Hyde| first =Matthew| last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link =Nikolaus Pevsner| series= The Buildings of England| title =Cumbria | publisher =[Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press) | year =2010 | orig-year=1967 | location = New Haven and London| page = 733| isbn = 978-0-300-12663-1}}</ref>

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