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verb

Correspond v. i. (past & past part. corresponded; pres. part. corresponding)

1.

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. "None of them (the forms of Sidney's sonnets) correspond to the Shakespearean type."

2.

To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; followed by to. "Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther."

3.

To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; followed by with. "After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he (Atterbury) began to correspond directly with the Pretender."

Synonyms: To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address.

adjective

Corresponding adj.

1.

Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.

2.

Carrying on intercourse by letters.

Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management.

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Etymology of 'Corresponding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to have a state corresponding to that of the great mitred abbots; the stables, where he kept his six horses, on the south side of New College Lane (to be seen in Plate X on the right), show, by their perfect masonry, how well the architect-bishop chose his materials and how ...

— The Charm of Oxford • J. Wells

... and to them he gave instructions in the same terms that he had given to the other two men who were watching old Silas, ordering Bessie to be instantly incarcerated in the corresponding little room on the other side of the waggon-house, and kept strictly from all communication with the outside ...

— Jess • H. Rider Haggard

... with sulphuretted hydrogen to form colorless compounds in solution, which, if solid, very probably would be white." He supposes, in a word, that for every colored substance existing in orchil and litmus, there is a corresponding white one, producible by the action of sulphuretted hydrogen, &c.; and, in proof of this theory, he mentions having obtained from Azolitmine and Betaorceine colorless bodies, to which he gave the respective names of ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... must beg you to walk your watch like a lady, and not to be corresponding with my prisoner anyhow, whether you talk raison or traison, as may happen to suit your convanience," observed the man ...

— Snarleyyow • Captain Frederick Marryat

... panelled; eight circular windows on each side were added. This poor substitute for a roof was built, as Elmes states, "in haste and for immediate use, and evidently a temporary covering." It lasted, nevertheless, nearly two hundred years, until in 1861 the plans for a new open roof corresponding with the original design of the Guildhall were approved by the Corporation. The dimensions of this magnificent building are 152 feet in length, 49 feet 6 inches in width, and 89 feet in height, from the pavement to the ridge of ...

— Memorials of Old London - Volume I • Various

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