Correspond
[kɒrɪ'spɒnd] or [,kɔrə'spɑnd]
Definition
(verb.) exchange messages; 'My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years'.
Typist: Steven--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.
(v. i.) To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to.
(v. i.) To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with.
Checker: Mara
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Agree, suit, fit, answer, accord, harmonize, tally, square, quadrate, comport, cohere, be accordant.[2]. Communicate (by letter).
Editor: Roxanne
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Match, tally, fit, answer, agree, suit, harmonize
ANT:Vary, differ, disagree, jar, clash
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Definition
v.i. to answer suit agree (with to with): to hold intercourse esp. by sending and receiving letters.—ns. Correspond′ence Correspond′ency suitableness harmony relation of agreement: friendly intercourse: communication by means of letters: letters which pass between correspondents.—adj. Correspond′ent agreeing with: suitable.—n. one with whom intercourse is kept up by letters: one who contributes letters to a journal.—adv. Correspond′ently.—adj. Correspond′ing correspondent: answering: suiting: carrying on correspondence by letters.—adv. Correspond′ingly.—adj. Correspon′sive corresponding: answering.—Doctrine of correspondences the theory of Swedenborg that there is a spiritual antitype corresponding to every natural object and that Scripture contains the key to these correspondences.
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Examples
- The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their habits and their dwellings should correspond to their education. Plato. The Republic.
- They exactly correspond, so I gather that the lady went back to the same establishment for the second. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Each interest is acknowledged as a kind of fixed institution to which something in the course of study must correspond. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To speak plainly, the electric impulses correspond in form and character to the sound vibration which they represent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We will correspond with your permission when you are in town, and yet we may meet as friends. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Though turned seventy, I possess an active memory, and legs to correspond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The needle, in passing rapidly in contact with the recorded waves, was vibrated up and down, causing corresponding vibrations of the diaphragm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was a machine mounted on two wheels, that had a seed box in the bottom of which was a series of holes opening into a corresponding number of metal tubes or funnels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At the various towns there were corresponding crowds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There were two wooden settles by the fire, one on either side of it, with a corresponding table before each. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The clocks at the corresponding stations were set exactly together, so that the same letter was exposed to view at each instrument at the same instant. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Ordinarily the gun has ten barrels, with ten corresponding locks, which revolve together during the working of the gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This confusion corresponds to the existing situation of human intercourse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Everything I see in him corresponds to his pamphlet on Biblical Cosmology. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Tao means the Way, which corresponds closely with the idea of the Aryan Path. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To stay in a storm, in a way, corresponds to a lot of things. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If the period of any one of the objects corresponds with the period of the sounding body, the gentle but frequent impulses affect the object, which responds by emitting a sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It corresponds with the injuries. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The indentation corresponds to the height of the letter upon the piece of type or the marks upon a cut, while the remaining parts should be perfectly smooth and free from holes. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- She set up an academy, and corresponded with Voltaire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Byzantine line corresponded to the southern dynasties. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Count and Countess corresponded regularly every morning during his lordship's absence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But among the Romans there was nothing which corresponded to the musical education of the Greeks. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Of course you observed the peculiarly square toes in the impressions, and that his own boots exactly corresponded to them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But carried on by a sure instinct in the complete darkness of his soul, he corresponded mystically with her, imperceptibly, but palpably. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Frederick carried culture to the pitch of authorship, and corresponded with and entertained Voltaire, to their mutual exasperation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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