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

Derived Forms

• ˌcorreˈspondingly, adverb

Other Words From

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of correspond¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of correspond¹

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

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.

Example Sentences

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

From Science News

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.

From Digiday

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

From Digiday

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.

From Search Engine Watch

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.

From ProPublica

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• coincide
• compare
• conform
• correlate
• dovetail
• harmonize
• resemble
• tally