All 6 Uses
correspond
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)
- Miss Miller occupied the foot of the table where I sat, and a strange, foreign-looking, elderly lady, the French teacher, as I afterwards found, took the corresponding seat at the other board.
p. 55.2corresponding = matching or analogous
- She pointed to a wide arch corresponding to the window, and hung like it with a Tyrian-dyed curtain, now looped up.
p. 123.5corresponding = accompanying (fitting together with)
- "Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame."
p. 291.5 *corresponding = matching or equivalent
- Mr. Eyre has been the Funchal correspondent of his house for some years.
p. 339.7 *correspondent = representative of the business in Funchal
- In the course of my necessary correspondence with Mr. Briggs about the will, I had inquired if he knew anything of Mr. Rochester's present residence and state of health; but, as St. John had conjectured, he was quite ignorant of all concerning him.
p. 460.7correspondence = communication by writing letters
- He has maintained a regular, though not frequent, correspondence ever since: he hopes I am happy, and trusts I am not of those who live without God in the world, and only mind earthly things.
p. 518.6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(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.) -
(2)
(correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emailA corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
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(3)
(correspondence as in: a correspondence course) done from afarFor 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. -
(4)
(correspondent as in: foreign correspondent of the paper) a reporter or other representative -- typically from a foreign country or with a particular expertise
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)