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That may well cause amazement—and yet it is perfectly in order and corresponds to the laws of how stories are told and listened to.†
Chpt 5.1 *

corresponds = connects or fits together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
The whole thing was a rather botched job, the portrait only vaguely corresponding to the model.†
Chpt 5.6

corresponding = connected or fitting together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
Was it illicit to think that certain planets of the atomic solar system— among all those hosts of solar systems in all those milky ways that constituted matter—that the state of some planet or other in that inner world might not correspond to the conditions that made the earth an abode of life?†
Chpt 5.7

correspond = connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
Consider the shoulder blades shifting beneath the silky skin of the back, and the spine descending into the fresh doubled luxuriance of the buttocks, and the great network of veins and nerves that branch out from the trunk through the armpits, and the way the structure of the arms corresponds to that of the legs.†
Chpt 5.9

corresponds = connects or fits together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
For there is something transcendent about your capitalist world republic— indeed, the world republic is the transcendent secular state, and we are one in our faith that on some distant horizon a final perfect condition awaits mankind that will correspond to his original perfect condition.†
Chpt 6.3

correspond = connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
But surely I need not spell it out, since it cannot have escaped you that the degrees in the Scottish Rite are but a surrogate for another hierarchy, that the alchemistic knowledge of the Master Mason is fulfilled in the mystery of transubstantiation, and that the mystic tour with which the lodge favors its novices clearly corresponds to the means of grace, just as the metaphoric games of its ceremonies are reflections of the liturgical and architectural symbols of our Holy Catholic Church.†
Chpt 6.8

corresponds = connects or fits together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
He casually showed Hans Castorp correspondence he had received from foreign Masonic dignitaries concerning this matter, a handwritten letter from the Swiss Grand Master, Brother Quartier la Tente of the Thirty-third Degree; and he discussed the plan to declare Esperanto the official world language of Freemasonry.†
Chpt 6.8 *

correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
In short, my situation is, I think, correct; it corresponds to the general state of affairs and in particular to my own sincere regard for your person, Mynheer Peeperkorn.†
Chpt 7.4

corresponds = connects or fits together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
And it was the same with the peculiar rounded top hat that his grandfather wore in public, which on some higher plane of reality corresponded to the broad-brimmed felt hat in the picture—or the long, pleated frock coat, whose genuine prototype little Hans Castorp found in the fur —and braid-trimmed robe.†
Chpt 2.1
It was, however, striking—in the best sense of the word—that precisely those rules that corresponded exactly to their overseers' economic interests enjoyed unconditional veneration, whereas rules for which said correspondence was less applicable were more likely to be winked at.†
Chpt 4.1
It was, however, striking—in the best sense of the word—that precisely those rules that corresponded exactly to their overseers' economic interests enjoyed unconditional veneration, whereas rules for which said correspondence was less applicable were more likely to be winked at.†
Chpt 4.1
The fact is, the account of the first three weeks of Hans Castorp's stay with "the people up here" (twenty-one days at the height of summer, to which, by all calculation, it was supposed to have been limited) has consumed quantities of space and time that correspond only too well to what the author himself expected, and indeed half confessed; the coverage of the next three weeks of the visit, however, will require about as many lines—or words, or even seconds—as the first three weeks required pages, quires, hours, and working days.†
Chpt 5.1
The taste the director displayed in his choice of models corresponded all too closely to his own for him to believe there was anything sober about it—and to reinforce his opinion, he needed only to picture the director's purple cheeks and bloodshot pop-eyes.†
Chpt 5.2
Once again the director peered through the milky pane, but this time into Hans Castorp's interior, and from his mutterings— ragtag curses and phrases—it appeared his findings corresponded to his expectations.†
Chpt 5.2
As for Hans Castorp's case, the optical and acoustical results corresponded as precisely as one could ever demand of science.†
Chpt 5.2
Moreover, he tried out going through a door without troubling to latch it behind him, but merely letting it close by itself; and that proved both convenient and easy—as an expression of feeling, it corresponded to the shrug with which Joachim had greeted him that day at the train station and which since then he had often noticed people use here.†
Chpt 5.4
"That little limping devil up front already handed me my paltry correspondence," Settembrini said, shoving a hand down into the side pocket of his ineluctable petersham coat.†
Chpt 5.5
The correspondence is perfect, down to the meaning of international labor's claim of dominion over international marketeering and speculation.†
Chpt 6.3
He was corresponding regularly with the flatlands now.†
Chpt 6.4
People subscribed to philatelic magazines, corresponded with special vendors, clubs, and private hobbyists, at home and abroad: and amazing sums were spent to purchase rare specimens, even by those whose budgets barely permitted them to stay at a deluxe sanatorium for months or years on end.†
Chpt 7.6

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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 email

A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
(3) (correspondence as in: a correspondence course)
done from afar

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.
(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)

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