All 4 Uses of
correspond
in
Gone with the Wind
- India and Honey are such poor correspondents, and I know you know everything that goes on down there.†
Chpt 2.10
- Correspondence with Charleston friends elicited the further information that his father, a charming old gentleman with an iron will and a ramrod for a backbone, had cast him out without a penny when he was twenty and even stricken his name from the family Bible.†
Chpt 2.12 *
- A correspondence had sprung up between them and, learning that Melanie had a husband at the front, the mother had sent her the length of gray cloth and brass buttons which she had bought for her dead son.†
Chpt 2.15 *
- She thanked God that her sister was the poorest of correspondents, delighting to receive letters and disliking to write them.†
Chpt 4.36
Definitions:
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(correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emaileditor's notes: A 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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(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.)