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Definition: Reciprocate |
ReciprocateVerb1. Act, feel, or give in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reciprocate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Note: Reciprocate \Re*cip"ro*cate\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Reciprocated; Reciprocating.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to. |
Concord | Side with, sympathize with, go with, chime in with, fall in with; come round; be pacified; assent; empathize with, enter into the ideas of, enter into the feelings of; reciprocate. |
Correlation | Verb: reciprocate, alternate; interchange; exchange; counterchange. |
Interchange | Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner,Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite. |
Retaliation | Verb: retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo; Noun: give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reciprocate |
| English words defined with "reciprocate": Reciprocated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reciprocate": hammer drill ♦ PLANER SET-UP OPERATOR, TOOL ♦ shaper machine hand, shaper operator, SHAPER SET-UP OPERATOR, TOOL, shaping-machine operator, STAKER, MACHINE. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Vietnam | Vietnamese often reciprocate this custom when addressing foreigners. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reciprocate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.16% of the time. "Reciprocate" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 90.16% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.56% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reciprocate | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reciprocate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vete-vjen (shuttle), shkëmbehem (swap, swop), lëviz prapa-mbrapa, ia kthej (repay, retort), alternohem. (various references) | |
Arabic | تردد للأمام و للوراء, تبادل (alternate, bandy, change, commutation, exchange, interchange, pass, reciprocation, reciprocity, swap, truck), جعله يتردد للأمام, رد الجميل (return). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разменяме си (pass between), отвръщам (avert, call back, rejoin, replicate, reply, requite, return, say back), отплащам се (pay, remunerate, requite). (various references) | |
Chinese | 交换 (EXCH, Exchange, Exchanged, Exchanging, Permute, Reciprocated, reciprocating, SWAP, Swapped, Swapping, Switched, trade-off, Trucked, trucking). (various references) | |
Czech | vzájemnì na sebe pùsobit (interact), střídat se (take turns), oplatit (pay back, render, repay, requite, revenge), opìtovat (repeat, return). (various references) | |
Dutch | vergelden (compensate, give back, repay, return, reward), terugdoen (compensate, reward), beantwoorden (answer, reply, respond). (various references) | |
Esperanto | reciproki. (various references) | |
Farsi | معامله بمثل کردن , تلافی کردن (Avenge, Counter, Pay, Recoup, Reprisal, Retaliate), عمل متقابل کردن (Counteract), جبران کردن (Atone, Compensate, Gratify, Offset, Recoup, Rectify, Redress, Reimburse, Remedy, Repair, Retrieve), دادن وگرفتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | tehdä jollekulle vastapalvelus (return a person a service). (various references) | |
French | rendre (regurgitate, render, render up, repay, restore, return), faire un mouvement va-et-vient, faire un mouvement alternatif, faire la même chose en retour, donner en retour, échanger. (various references) | |
German | vergelten (compensate, give back, repaid, repay, requite, retaliate, return, reward, to reciprocate, to requite, to retaliate, to reward), sich revanchieren (get one's revenge, retaliate, return the compliment, return the favor), hin- und herbewegen (to reciprocate), erwidern (answer, pay back, rejoin, repay, reply, respond, retort, return, to reply). (various references) | |
Greek | ανταποκρίνομαι (correspond, correspond to, respond to), ανταποδίνω, ανταποδίδω (render, repay, requite, retaliate), ανταλλάσσω (barter, change for, commute, exchange, interchange, permute, swap, swop, trade, trade for), διαμείβω. (various references) | |
Hungarian | viszonoz valamit, elõre-hátra mozgat. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pertunjukan (exposition, performance, recital). (various references) | |
Italian | ripagare (compensate, pay, pay again, refund, reward), ricambiare (change again, repay, return), contraccambiare (requite, return). (various references) | |
Korean | 반례하십시". (various references) | |
Manx | maylartey (alternate, barter, bartering, commutation, commute, exchange, interchange, reciprocating, reciprocation, substitution, swap, transpose, transposing), covuilley (collide, collision, concussion, reciprocating). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eciprocateray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reciprocar (shuttle). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãspunde la (acknowledge, answer, overbear, return, satisfy), rãsplãti (punish, quit, recompense, repay, requite, return, reward), face schimb de (swop), face o mişcare rectilinie. (various references) | |
Russian | отвечать взаимностью (love back), отплачивать (pay back, repay, requite, retaliate), отплатить (give back, respond), обмениваться (bandy, swap, swoop, swop), двигаться вперед-назад (shuttle), двигать вперед-назад. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naizmenično se kretati. (various references) | |
Spanish | corresponder (agree, answer, appertain, assort, behoove, behove, come into, correspond, quadrate, tally). (various references) | |
Swedish | göra en gentjänst. (various references) | |
Turkish | karşılıklı yapmak, karşılıklı olmak, karşılık vermek (answer, answer back, come back, counter, give back, hit back, repay, reply, respond, riposte, strike back, talk back), acısını çıkarmak (avenge, be revenged, compansate oneself for, get equal with smb., get even with, get one's own back, have one's revenge, pay back, pay off, pay out, requite, serve smb. out, take revenge for), aşağı yukarı işlemek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відповідати вза"мністю, відплачувати (pay out, requite, yield), обмінюватися (bandy, change, exchange, interchange, niffer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reciprocate": reciprocated, reciprocates. (additional references) | |
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"Reciprocate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: recipocate, reciporcate, reciprecate, recipricate, reciprocat, reciprovcate, recorporate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reciprocate" (pronounced rusi"prukā't) |
| 6 | -p r u k ā' t | deprecate. |
| 5 | -r u k ā' t | extricate, fabricate. |
| 4 | -u k ā' t | allocate, aluminosilicate, abdicate, authenticate, communicate, complicate, dedicate, domesticate, educate, equivocate, eradicate, excommunicate, indicate, intoxicate, misallocate, pontificate, predicate, prognosticate, rededicate, reeducate, replicate, suffocate. |
| 3 | -k ā' t | adjudicate, bifurcate, cheapskate, confiscate, implicate, inculcate, locate, lubricate, medicate, obfuscate, prefabricate, sophisticate, truncate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: practicer, procreate. | |
-3 letters: accepter, acceptor, cocreate, operatic, perorate, portiere, practice, priorate, reaccept, recarpet, receptor. | |
-4 letters: accrete, acrotic, airport, apricot, aprotic, caperer, caprice, carport, caterer, cerotic, cicoree, cirrate, coercer, coerect, correct, coterie, creator, crepier, ectopia, ectopic, erector, erotica, erratic, ocreate, operate, orectic, paretic, parotic, partier, pearter, peatier, picotee, picrate, piercer, pierrot, porrect, practic, praetor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: reciprocated, reciprocates. | |
+2 letters: reciprocative. | |
+5 letters: precertification. | |
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