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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CORRESPONDING, ppr.
1. Carrying on intercourse by letters.
2. a. Answering; agreeing; suiting.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: accompanying; "all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities"
2: similar especially in position or purpose; "a number of corresponding diagonal points"
3: conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year" [syn: comparable, corresponding, like]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1579 1. a. having or participating in the same relationship (as kind, degree, position, correspondence, or function) especially with regard to the same or like wholes (as geometric figures or sets) <corresponding parts of similar triangles> b. related, accompanying <all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities — W. P. Paepcke> 2. a. charged with the duty of writing letters <corresponding secretary> b. participating or serving at a distance and by mail <a corresponding member of the society> • correspondingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Corresponding Cor`re*spond"ing, a. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Correspond Cor`re*spond" (k?r`r?-sp?nd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding.] [Pref. cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre.] 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. --J. A. Symonds. 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. --Locke. 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. --Macaulay. Syn: To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Answering. See correspondent.

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