All 3 Uses of
correspond
in
Main Street
- That was her last effort to harvest the April wind, to teach divine unhappiness by a correspondence course, to buy the lilies of Avalon and the sunsets of Cockaigne in tin cans at Ole Jenson's Grocery.†
Chpt 10
- Take one of these correspondence courses in drawing—they mayn't be any good in themselves, but they'll make you try to draw and——"†
Chpt 30 *
- She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry.†
Chpt 37 *
Definitions:
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(correspondence as in: a correspondence course) done from afareditor's notes: For example, a corresponding member or a correspondence course.
This sense of corresponding arose because people who lived in distant cities and could not be present for meetings, could communicate by sending written communications.
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(correspond as in: corresponding time period) connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)