All 8 Uses of
correspond
in
Doctor Zhivago
- It was with him that she had arranged her move by correspondence; he had met her and the children at the station and had driven them to the other end of Moscow, to the Montenegro Hotel in Oruzheiny Pereulok, where he had booked their room.
Chpt 1.2 (definition 1)correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
- Some suggested the Society of Commercial Employees, others the Technical School, and still others the School of Foreign Correspondence.†
Chpt 1.2 (definition 2)
- Now the front is flooded with correspondents and journalists.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- Blazheiko, a religious dissenter who had once corresponded with Tolstoy, proclaimed a new millennial Zybushino kingdom where all work and property were to be collectivized, and referred to the local administration as an Apostolic Seat.†
Chpt 2.5 (definition 2)
- You tell me my ideas don't correspond to reality.
Chpt 2.7 (definition 2) *correspond = connect or fit with
- It was the White staff headquarters' correspondence.
Chpt 2.11 (definition 1)correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
- That would explain why our correspondence was interrupted for almost five years.
Chpt 2.15 (definition 1)
- I used to correspond with them, you know, after I got back to Moscow, and then they suddenly stopped writing.
Chpt 2.15 (definition 1) *correspond = exchange letters through the mail
Definitions:
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(1) (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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(2) (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.)