correspondent

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  NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj correspondent similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar "brains and computers are often considered analogous","salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar"
  • n correspondent someone who communicates by means of letters
  • n correspondent a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
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Our racing correspondent writes that Mr. LLOYD GEORGE is having some difficulty with his string

• Interesting fact: Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower).
• • Correspondent (Com) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.
  • Correspondent One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.
  • Correspondent One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
  • a Correspondent Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. "Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.""As fast the correspondent passions rise.""I will be correspondent to command."
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• Interesting fact: People are marrying younger today than they did before the turn of the century. In the United States, in 1890, the average age of men at their first marriage was twenty-six years, compared with twenty-three today. For women, the corresponding figures are twenty-two then and just under twenty-one now.
• • correspondent Having the relation of correspondence. Occupying similar positions or having similar relations. See correspond, 1.
  • correspondent Conformable; congruous; suited; similar: as, let behavior be correspondent to profession, and both be correspondent to good morals.
  • correspondent Obedient; conformable in behavior.
  • correspondent Responsible.
  • n correspondent One who corresponds; one with whom intercourse, as of friendship or of business, is carried on by letters or messages; specifically, one who sends from a distance regular communications in epistolary form to a newspaper.
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• Interesting fact: Bore-hole seismometry indicates that the land in Oklahoma moves up and down 25cm throughout the day, corresponding with the tides. Earth tides are generally about one-third the size of ocean tides.
• • adj Correspondent agreeing with: suitable
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• David Mamet

  

  “We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.”
• Orison Swett Marden

  

  “Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.”
• William Butler Yeats

  

  “We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.”
• Thomas Troward

  

  “We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.”
• Sydney Smith

  

  “Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.”
• Kathleen Raine

  

  “Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the correspondence through which we may know our boundless selves.”

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