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/correspond/

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation and accent: kɒrɪspɒnd.

-) Etymology: from Medieval Latin correspondēre, from cor- (com-, together, with each other) + respondēre (to answer), which is analysed into re- + spondēre (to pledge, promise.) The French correspondre, the Italian corrispondere, and the Spanish corresponder, are from the same origin.

-) Preterite tense: corresponded. Preterite participle: corresponded.

-) Present participle: corresponding.

-) Intransitively: 1. (Of two or more things) to be coincident or corresponding in quality; to have mutual correspondence or likeness; to coincide in quality. (Of a thing) to be congruous with; to be in harmony with; to be like; as, the result corresponds with the expectation; this is, the result is LIKE the expectation.

-) Synonyms for CORRESPOND: suit, coincide.

Emerging from this shadow, with his long peculiar step, I saw approaching me the identical Spaniard whose malign expression of countenance and general appearance, had so strongly attracted my attention at the Water-port. That it was the same I could not doubt, for his height, his dress, his air, all corresponded exactly. 

The Republic of Letters, by A. Whitelaw… 1833

A complete female dress had been made ready as a present for me; being of the materials and construction already described, with an appearance of unusual care in adjusting the symmetry of the skins, so that the colours should correspond on each side; while there was a fringe below, and a border of white round the hood and the openings for the arms.

John Ross… Search… 1835

-) With the preposition “with”, or “to”, + a noun, by which the correspondent is designated:

… his dress always corresponded with that of his companions in arms; his food was the same as theirs.

Flinter… Revolution… 1819

The American conducted me to a handsome house which was not far distant. When I had light to examine the appearance of this stranger, I was pleased to find that it perfectly corresponded with the idea I had formed of his character. 

The Philadelphia Visitor… 1840

The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet — a deep blood color.

Poe… 1842

The result entirely corresponded to my expectation.

The Chemical Gazette… 1850

Travel, according to my experience, does not exactly correspond to the idea one gets of it out of most books of travels.

Oliver Holmes… The autocrat… 1873

-) 2. (Of two or more things) to be coincident or corresponding in function; to be equivalent, though differently named; to have mutual correspondence or likeness in value. (Of a thing) to be comparable to another, as for its function or value.

[…] it may be observed that in Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, as well as in some other languages, both ancient and modern, there is no word corresponding to our a or an.

Banks… The English Master… 1823

In many languages, adjectives have a peculiarity of termination corresponding to that of the number, gender, or case of the noun to which they are joined.

Banks… The English Master… 1823

[…] an executive council, corresponding to our ministry.

The Monthly Magazine… 1838

-) 3. (Of two or more things) to be coincident or corresponding in position; to have mutual correspondence or likeness in fitness, amount, shape, etc. (Of a thing) to be equal to another in size, number, etc.

The central part may be square or poligonal, and the surrounding pieces so formed as to fit the angles of the centre part, and correspond exactly to each other when combined.

Newton… Newton's London Journal of Arts… 1831

I make the said cylinder of two copper tubes, an inner and an outer one; the internal diameter of the outermost tube must be made to correspond with the exterior diameter of the inner tube.

Newton… Newton's London Journal of Arts… 1831

Having thus inserted a portion of the cloth forming the upper part of the bag, I refastened the loops — not to the hoop, for that would have been impossible, since the cloth now intervened, — but to a series of large buttons, affixed to the cloth itself, about three feet below the mouth of the bag — the intervals between the buttons having been made to correspond to the intervals between the loops.

Poe… 1835

Had M. Beauvais, in his search for the body of Marie, discovered a corpse corresponding in general size and appearance to the missing girl, he would have been warranted (without reference to the question of habiliment at all) in forming an opinion that his search had been successful.

Edgar Poe… 1845

… the days in summer, and the nights in winter, are just as long in Liverpool as at Cape Horn; for the latitude of the two places very nearly corresponds.

Melville… Redburn… 1849

[…] the stone segments are also to be chiselled so as to correspond with exactness to each other as to their contiguous edges, and also to the inner surface of the shell when placed contiguously side by side as a lining of the same.

Newton's London Journal… 1863

The window-sill corresponded to the thickness of the adobe wall, and was therefore about three feet deep.

Newmark… Sixty Years… 1916

-) 4. (Of a person): a. To respond reciprocally; --obsolete. b. To have mutual communication or intercourse with another; --obsolete.

-) 5. Particularly: (of a person) to communicate with another by sending and receiving letters. (Of two or more persons) to have mutual communication by sending and receiving letters.

Mrs. Holmes and Aunt Ruth corresponded irregularly. Letters had probably been interchanged half a dozen times since I came to the Parsonage.

Townsend… While it was Morning… 1857

Pattmore then returned to Greenville, and soon afterward his wife died. He had visited her only once since that time, but they corresponded regularly.

Pinkerton… The Somnambulist… 1875

-) With the preposition ‘with’ + noun of the correspondent:

During his absences, all the children who could write corresponded with him.

Randolph… Thomas Jefferson… 1871

-) Words derived from Latin spondēre, see SPOUSE.

-) Words derived from the verb CORRESPOND: correspondence, correspondent, correspondential, correspondentially, correspondently, correspondentship, corresponder, corresponding, correspondingly, uncorrespondency, uncorrespondent, uncorresponding.