All 19 Uses
correspond
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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- He saw his friends and the women sailing in a radiant glow, without weight or mass, saying words that did not come out of their mouths and making mysterious signals that did not correspond to their expressions.†
Chpt 4 *correspond = connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
- Nevertheless Fernanda divided her time in those days between little Amaranta Ursula, who was mischievous and sickly, and a touching correspondence with the invisible physicians.†
Chpt 14correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
- Her monthly letters to her son Jose Arcadio at that time did not carry a string of lies and she hid from him only her correspondence with the invisible doctors, who had diagnosed a benign tumor in her large intestine and were preparing her for a telepathic operation.†
Chpt 14
- Then she put Amaranta Ursula under the care of Santa Sofia de la Piedad and dedicated herself to organizing her correspondence with the invisible doctors, which had been upset by Meme's trouble.†
Chpt 15
- That was the reason for her anxious correspondence with the invisible doctors, interrupted by frequent disasters of the mail.†
Chpt 16 *
- It was that same incentive which induced her to speed up her correspondence with the invisible doctors and to replace the pots of ferns and oregano and the begonias on the porch even before Ursula found out that they had been destroyed by Aureliano Segundo's exterminating fury.†
Chpt 17
- The expensive correspondence with the invisible doctors ended in failure.†
Chpt 17
- In the meantime he maintained a correspondence with his partners in Brussels which resembled that of Fernanda with the invisible doctors, and he finally convinced them to ship the first airplane under the care of an expert mechanic, who would assemble it in the nearest port and fly it to Macondo.†
Chpt 19
- Along with those items, Melquiades left samples of the seven metals that corresponded to the seven planets, the formulas of Moses and Zosimus for doubling the quantity of gold, and a set of notes and sketches concerning the processes of the Great Teaching that would permit those who could interpret them to undertake the manufacture of the philosopher's stone.†
Chpt 1
- Later on, when contact with the unknown correspondents was broken, she had seriously thought ofputting on the tiger mask that her husband had worn in the bloody carnival and having herself examined under a fictitious name by the banana company doctors.†
Chpt 16
- But before she could complete the prescribed rest she received a disturbed letter from the invisible doctors, who mid they had inspected her for six hours without finding anything that corresponded to the symptoms so many times and so scrupulously described by her.†
Chpt 17
- The disillusioned Fernanda tried to obtain more precise information, but the unknown correspondents did not answer her letters any more.†
Chpt 17 *
- He was certain that they corresponded to an alphabet of forty-seven to fifty-three characters, which when separated looked like scratching and scribbling, and which in the fine hand of Melquiades looked like pieces of clothing put out to dry on a line.†
Chpt 17
- While the urgent correspondence that made the coordination possible went forward, Aureliano Segundo, aided by Petra Cates, prepared Amaranta Ursula's baggage.†
Chpt 17
- That endless correspondence made her lose her sense of time, especially after Santa Sofia de la Piedad had left.†
Chpt 18
- It never occurred either to him or to Fernanda to think that their correspondence was an exchange of fantasies.†
Chpt 18
- One year after his first meditations and meteorological calculations, trusting in the repeated promises of his correspondents, he had acquired the habit of strolling through the streets, looking at the sky, hanging onto the sound of the breeze in hopes that the airplane would appear.†
Chpt 19
- The correspondence reached such a degree of mutual suspicion that Gaston decided not to write again and he began to suggest the possibility of a quick trip to Brussels to clear things up and return with the airplane.†
Chpt 19
- Tired of waiting for the airplane, one day he put his indispensable things into a small suitcase, took his file of correspondence, and left with the idea of returning by air before his concession was turned over to a group of German pilots who had presented the provincial authorities with a more ambitious project than his.†
Chpt 20
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)