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correspond

[ kawr-uh-spond, kor- ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to be in agreement or conformity (often followed by with or to ):

    His actions do not correspond with his words.

    Synonyms: tally, match, harmonize

  2. to be similar or analogous; be equivalent in function, position, amount, etc. (usually followed by to ):

    The U.S. Congress corresponds to the British Parliament.

  3. to communicate by exchange of letters.


correspond

/ ˌkɒrɪˈspɒnd /

verb

  1. usually foll bywith or to to conform, be in agreement, or be consistent or compatible (with); tally (with)
  2. usually foll by to to be similar or analogous in character or function
  3. usually foll by with to communicate by letter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌcorreˈspondingly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • corre·sponding·ly adverb
  • precor·re·spond verb (used without object)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of correspond1

First recorded in 1520–30; from Middle French, from Medieval Latin corrēspondēre; equivalent to cor- + respond
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Word History and Origins

Origin of correspond1

C16: from Medieval Latin corrēspondēre, from Latin respondēre to respond
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Synonym Study

Correspond, agree, accord imply comparing persons or things and finding that they harmonize. Correspond suggests having an obvious similarity, though not agreeing in every detail: Part of this report corresponds with the facts. Agree implies having or arriving at a condition in which no essential difference of opinion or detail is evident: All the reports agree. Accord emphasizes agreeing exactly, both in fact and in point of view: This report accords with the other.
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Example Sentences

The subparticles have been named partons, and whether or not they correspond to the hypothetical quarks remains a moot question.

Those stations’ corresponding websites, where the video segments are published alongside written articles, also reach a broad audience with 75 million visitors per month, according to the company.

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In the months after the meeting, the network saw Facebook video viewership and corresponding revenue roughly double in November and December.

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A good practice would be to place your images into different category folders that would correspond to your different products instead of just lumping them all into one generic folder.

Any contract with at least one sentence with a high similarity to a representative provision was considered likely to fall in the corresponding category and became a candidate for further review.

Franco adopted different looks for each section to correspond with their respective psyche.

They just liked what they liked, which happened to correspond to what a lot of other little girls liked.

The special powers correspond to each world and each game “master.”

The three goals correspond to the three main sectors of the Palestinian people today.

The number of lunar cycles does not correspond easily to the number of seasonal ones.

In practice one party seems about as bad as the other, but at least the Democratic ideals more nearly correspond with my own.

And the latter supposition, indeed, seems to correspond with the circumstances of the facts.

As the tale is told at great length, I quote only a few of the lines that most closely correspond to Chaucer.

In fact, eleven stanzas (183-259) correspond to Boccaccio's Teseide, Canto vii.

With regard to the Whirlwind, perhaps it might correspond better to Dors picture; it has not turned out quite what I wanted.

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