Correspond

Definition: Correspond

Correspond

Verb

1. Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints do'nt match those on the gun".

2. Be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics.

3. Exchange messages; "My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years".

4. Take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "correspond" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Correspond

Agreement

Verb: be accordant; Adjective: agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate.

Correspondence

Verb: correspond with; write to, send a letter to; keep up a correspondence.

Crosswords: Correspond

French (corresponds).

Books

• Complete Works of Voltaire Correspond (reference)

• Illustrated Letters: Artists and Writers Correspond (reference)

• Secret Messengers: How Governments Correspond (reference)

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Schematic diagram of chromosomes 8, 2, 14, and 22 which are involved in the translocations (usually 8;14, less frequently 8;22 or 2;8) which occur in Burkitt's Lymphoma. The break points for these translocations are identified by the banding regions (q24, p13, q32 and q11). These break points on chromosomes 2, 14, and 22 correspond to chromosomal regions to which have been mapped the kappa, heavy chain and lambda constant region genes respectively. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Using this staining technique, fluorescent dye is attached to the known antibodies that correspond to the suspected antigen. These antibodies will in turn attach to the antigen molecules, if present, and fluoresce when viewed with a fluorescent light. Credit: CDC.

Chart of Pearl Harbor recovered from a Japanese midget submarine captured after the attack. The chart shows various courses around Ford Island and gives ship locations which do not necessarily correspond to actual 7 December ship positions. Since it presumably came from the midget submarine HA-19, which was unsuccessful in its attempts to enter the harbor, these details probably represent expected ship locations and intended maneuvers by the submarine. Credit: NAVY.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Such fantastic pictures of future society, painted at a time when the proletariat is still in a very undeveloped state and has but a fantastic conception of its own position correspond with the first instinctive yearnings of that class for a general reconstruction of society. (reference)

Each of the Clearing Offices will be at liberty to correspond with the other and to forward documents in its own language. (reference)

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Health

Investigators are continuing to study these patterns to see if they correspond to specific types of gene mutations. (references)

Furthermore, there is evidence that different combinations of the HLAs may correspond to variations in disease severity and progression. (references)

The body mass index values, which correspond to 20 percent above desirable weight, are 27.2 and 26.9 for men and women, respectively, using the 1983 tables and 26.4 and 25.8 for men and women, respectively, using the 1959 tables. (references)

Business

The writing in the second language should exactly correspond to that in Arabic. (references)

Population as of October 1, 1999 was 8,836,471 (which correspond to about 7% of Japan’s total population). (references)

Due to the decline in the incidence of dental caries, demand for dental services that correspond to these problems has declined. (references)

Children

Brazil

A 1999 study by the Reference Center on Children and Adolescents (CECRIA), an entity within the National Human Rights Secretariat, indicated that patterns of sexual exploitation of children correspond to the distinct economic and social profile of the country's region. (references)

Economic History

Honduras

The indicator years specified below correspond to the first year of the split marketing year. (references)

Israel

Most American banks correspond with the leading Israeli banks and can provide due diligence information. (references)

Human Rights

Ukraine

Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports during the year that prisoners were not being permitted to correspond or that family visits were limited to one per year. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

Religious differences often correspond to regional and ethnic differences. (references)

Political Economy

UKRAINE

Tax filing and collection procedures do not correspond to practices in Western countries. (references)

Political Rights

Australia

The percentage of Aboriginals in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population. (references)

Syria

Nonetheless, the percentage of women and minorities in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population. (references)

Tunisia

Women participate in politics; however, the percentage of women in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population. (references)

Trade

Cape Verde

The information should correspond to that shown on the invoices and packages. (references)

Moldova

The laws, prepared with IMF assistance, correspond to international standards. (references)

Turkey

Bill of Lading: Details in the bill of lading should correspond exactly to those given in other shipping documents. (references)

Travel

South Africa

Most companies in South Africa are able to correspond in either language. (references)

Haiti

Most important commercial and industrial enterprises can correspond in English and often Spanish. (references)

Venezuela

Stars are awarded by the Venezuelan Government, and do not correspond to any international standards. (references)

Women

Colombia

According to U.N. statistics, women's earnings for formal sector, nonagricultural work correspond to approximately 85 percent of men's earnings for comparable work, and women must demonstrate higher qualifications than men when applying for jobs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "correspond": correspond to ♦ correspond to smth. ♦ correspond with smb. ♦ passenger car which correspond to a model withing the contract programme. Additional references.

Albanian

përgjigjem (agree, answer, answer for, match, rejoin, respond), korrespondoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏وازى (equal), ‏توافق (adjustable, adjustment, agree, agreement, chime, coincide, coincidence, concord, correspondence, harmonization, harmonize, harmony, hit it off with smb., reconcile, work in with), ‏تطابق (agree, coincide, coincidence, concurrence, consistency, correspondence, fitness, identification, identify, match, oneness, parallelism, self identification, symmetry), ‏تراسل (correspondence), ‏إنسجم (blend, chime, concord, consort, get along with, harmonize, mesh, square, tone). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съответствувам (accord, agree, concur, fit, match, parallel, piece on, quadrate), кореспондираме си, кореспондирам, отговарям (accord, account, answer, fit, fulfill, match, rejoin, replicate, reply, respond, retort, vouch). (various references)

Catalan

empiular. (various references)

Chinese 

对�" (Corresponded, Corresponding). (various references)

Czech

znamenat (add up to, betoken, connotate, connote, count, denote, designate, entail, mean, purport, signify, spell), odpovídat èemu (be equivalent to smth., conform, correspond to, correspond to smth.), dopisovat si. (various references)

Danish

korrespondere. (various references)

Dutch

corresponderen. (various references)

Esperanto

kunrespondi, korespondi. (various references)

Faeroese

skifta brøv. (various references)

Farsi 

مکاتبه کردن(باwith), رابطه داشتن , بهم مربوطبودن , برابربودن . (various references)

Finnish

vaihtaa kirjeitä, olla kirjeenvaihdossa. (various references)

French

correspondre (coincide, conform). (various references)

Frisian

oanslute (associate, come together, join, pool). (various references)

German

korrespondieren, entsprechen (answer, be convenient, be correct, be in accordance with, befit, come up to, comply, comply with, conform, correlate, correspond to, equal, fit, fulfill, live up to, match, meet, to comply, to conform, to correlate, to correspond). (various references)

Greek 

συμφωνώ (accord, agree, agree to, consort with, fall in with, go along, jibe, stipulate, tally), αντιστοιχώ (correspond to, tally), ανταποκρίνομαι (correspond to, reciprocate, respond to). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתאום (fit, match, resemble, suit), ל�"יות מקביל, ל�"יות תואם (coincide, conform), ל�"תכתב. (various references)

Hungarian

tudósít (to advise, to cover, to inform sy, to inform sy of sg), levelez (to correspond), összhangban van (harmonize, to accord, to chime in with, to chime together, to hang together, to harmonize). (various references)

Indonesian

berbalas-balasan (correspond with). (various references)

Italian

corrispondere (agree, be equivalent of, check, coincide, meet, pay, tally), avere la coincidenza. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

該�"する (apply to, correspond to, fall under), 見合う (to correspond, to counterbalance, to exchange glances), 準ずる (to apply correspondingly, to be proportionate to, to conform to, to correspond to), 準 (aim, apply correspondingly, associate, be proportionate to, conform to, correspond to, level, quasi, rule, semi, standard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がいとうする (apply to, correspond to, fall under), じゅ�"ずる (to apply correspondingly, to be proportionate to, to conform to, to correspond to), じゅ�" (10-day period, aim, apply correspondingly, associate, be proportionate to, chaste, conform to, correspond to, excellence, genius, innocent, level, order, pure, quasi, quasi-, rule, semi, semi-, standard, turn), みあう (to correspond, to counterbalance, to exchange glances). (various references)

Korean 

해당하십시�". (various references)

Manx

freggyrt (acknowledgement, answer, come back; outcrop, react, reaction, rejoin, rejoinder, reply, respond, response, retort, solution, suit). (various references)

Papiamen

korespondé. (various references)

Pig Latin

orrespondcay.(various references)

Polish

korespondować. (various references)

Portuguese

corresponder (answer, attune, coincide, match, measure up, repay, reply, respond, satisfy). (various references)

Romanian

corespunde cu, coresponda (write), fi conform. (various references)

Russian 

соответствовать;и)переписываться, соответствовать (agree, answer, be followed in, be matched by, check with, cohere, coincide, comport, conform, conform with, correspond to, correspond with, jump with, match, measure, measure up, parallel, pertain to), переписываться. (various references)

Scottish

comh-fhreagair (agree, suit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predstavljati (impersonate, personate, represent), odgovarati (answer, behoove, match, respond, suit, talk), dopisivati se. (various references)

Spanish

cartearse, empalmar (accrete, join, link up, scarf, splice), corresponder (agree, answer, appertain, assort, behoove, behove, come into, quadrate, reciprocate, tally). (various references)

Swedish

korrespondera, brevväxla. (various references)

Turkish

yazışmak, yaramak (agree, agree with, avail, be of service to, benefit, do for, lend itself to, profit, serve, suit), uymak (abide by, accommodate oneself, accord, adapt, agree, answer, assort, become, chime, chime in with, coincide, comply, comply with, comport, conform, consist, consort, correlate, defer, do, do for, fall with, fit, follow, gear, go, go together, go with, harmonize, keep, keep to, match, mate, obey, observe, pertain, quadrate, respect, sort together, Square, square with, string along with, suit, tally, tally with, tone, work in with), mektuplaşmak, karşılığı olmak, haberleşmek (communicate, intercommunicate, speak), benzemek (appear, approach, approximate, be similar, bear resemblance to, compare, dovetail, Favor, favour, have an air of, have resemblance to, look alike, look like, match, mimic, promise, remind, remind of, resemble, resemble smb. in looks, seem, take after, take on, throw back). (various references)

Ukrainian

являти собою (constitute, present), відповідати (accord, agree, answer, become, consort with, fall in with, fill the bill, fulfil, measure up, parallel, quadrate, rejoin, reply, respond, return, take the consequences, tally), листуватися. (various references)

Welsh

cyfateb (agree, tally), ymohebu, ymateb (answer, respond), gohebu. (various references)

congruam, congruit. (various references)

respondere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "correspond": corresponded, correspondence, correspondences, correspondencies, correspondency, correspondent, correspondents, corresponding, correspondingly, corresponds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Correspond" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coorespond, corespond, corispond, corrispond, corrospond. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: condores, coroners, corrodes, crooners, endorsor, scrooped.

-3 letters: condoes, condors, coopers, corders, cordons, corners, coroner, corrode, crepons, crooned, crooner, dorpers, droners, operons, perrons, ponders, records, respond, scooped, scooper, scorned, scorner, secondo, snooped, snooper, spooned, spoored.

-4 letters: censor, codens, coders, codons, condor, condos, cooers, cooped, cooper, copens, copers, corder, cordon, corers, corned, corner, corpse, credos.

+1 letter: corresponds.

+2 letters: corresponded.

+3 letters: correspondent, corresponding, cotransported, reproductions.

+4 letters: correspondence, correspondency, correspondents, preproductions, superconductor.

+5 letters: correspondences, correspondingly, overproductions, superconductors.