What part of speech is corresponding?

Corresponding can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. corresponding is a verb, gerund of correspond (infinitive).
  • 2. corresponding is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more corresponding
    most corresponding
  • Positive: corresponding 
  • Comparative: more corresponding
  • Superlative: most corresponding

What does corresponding mean?

Definitions

Adjective

corresponding - accompanying; "all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities"
corresponding - similar especially in position or purpose; "a number of corresponding diagonal points"

Verb

correspond - exchange messages; "My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years"
correspond - be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
correspond - be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics
correspond - take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin"

Noun

corresponding - action of the verb to correspond.

Examples of corresponding

#   Sentence  
1. adj. All rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities.
2. adj. A number of corresponding diagonal points.
3. adj. You have certain privileges and therefore corresponding responsibilities.
4. adj. The sexes differ, not only in stature and muscular force, but perhaps even more decisively in temperament, and this must early have given rise to a corresponding division of labour.
5. adj. Indicate the applicable numeral, by holding up the corresponding number of fingers.
6. adj. Because machines could be made progressively more and more efficient, Western man came to believe that men and societies would automatically register a corresponding moral and spiritual improvement.
7. adj. Every virtue has its corresponding vice.
8. adj. In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.
9. adj. There's been a corresponding increase in wholesale prices.
10. adj. The length of the frost-free season (and the corresponding growing season) has been increasing nationally since the 1980s, with the largest increases occurring in the western United States, affecting ecosystems and agriculture. Across the United States, the growing season is projected to continue to lengthen.
11. adj. For every action, there is a corresponding reaction.
12. adj. The population density of coastal shoreline couhe population density of coastal shoreline counties is over six times greater than the corresponding inland counties.
13. adj. Attempting to do LSAT problems in the coursebook before attending the corresponding lesson is counterproductive.
14. adj. With phonetic languages, each letter has a single corresponding sound: spelling matches the pronunciation.
15. verb I look forward to corresponding with you.
16. verb I am corresponding with an American high school student.
17. verb I have been corresponding with a pen pal in the USA for a year.
18. verb This single reflection will show that the doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay.
19. verb Maria didn't suspect that "Tom", her pen-friend, with whom she had been corresponding for months over the Internet and whom she secretly loved, without ever having met him, was actually a super-intelligent squirrel.
20. verb When written as a numerical date, March 14, 2015 is 3/14/15, corresponding to the first five digits of pi (3.1415) - a once-in-a-century coincidence!
21. verb The Brazilian flag has a green background (alluding to the rainforest) with a yellow diamond (representative of gold and the country's wealth in mineral resources) in whose center a starry blue disc symbolizes the sky of the region, with the number of stars corresponding to the states of the federation. In the central belt is inscribed a motto of the country.
22. verb I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
23. verb I am corresponding with my granny's friend.
24. verb Yanni and Skura were corresponding in code.
25. verb Yanni was corresponding with famous people.
26. verb The term of the Transaction shall correspond to the date(s) set forth in the Product description on the Website.
27. verb You should make your ideas correspond with reality.
28. verb Your words must correspond with your actions.
29. verb The fingerprints left on the weapon correspond with the suspect's.
Sentence  
adj.
All rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities.
A number of corresponding diagonal points.
You have certain privileges and therefore corresponding responsibilities.
The sexes differ, not only in stature and muscular force, but perhaps even more decisively in temperament, and this must early have given rise to a corresponding division of labour.
Indicate the applicable numeral, by holding up the corresponding number of fingers.
Because machines could be made progressively more and more efficient, Western man came to believe that men and societies would automatically register a corresponding moral and spiritual improvement.
Every virtue has its corresponding vice.
In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.
There's been a corresponding increase in wholesale prices.
The length of the frost-free season (and the corresponding growing season) has been increasing nationally since the 1980s, with the largest increases occurring in the western United States, affecting ecosystems and agriculture. Across the United States, the growing season is projected to continue to lengthen.
For every action, there is a corresponding reaction.
The population density of coastal shoreline couhe population density of coastal shoreline counties is over six times greater than the corresponding inland counties.
Attempting to do LSAT problems in the coursebook before attending the corresponding lesson is counterproductive.
With phonetic languages, each letter has a single corresponding sound: spelling matches the pronunciation.
verb
I look forward to corresponding with you.
I am corresponding with an American high school student.
I have been corresponding with a pen pal in the USA for a year.
This single reflection will show that the doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay.
Maria didn't suspect that "Tom", her pen-friend, with whom she had been corresponding for months over the Internet and whom she secretly loved, without ever having met him, was actually a super-intelligent squirrel.
When written as a numerical date, March 14, 2015 is 3/14/15, corresponding to the first five digits of pi (3.1415) - a once-in-a-century coincidence!
The Brazilian flag has a green background (alluding to the rainforest) with a yellow diamond (representative of gold and the country's wealth in mineral resources) in whose center a starry blue disc symbolizes the sky of the region, with the number of stars corresponding to the states of the federation. In the central belt is inscribed a motto of the country.
I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
I am corresponding with my granny's friend.
Yanni and Skura were corresponding in code.
Yanni was corresponding with famous people.
The term of the Transaction shall correspond to the date(s) set forth in the Product description on the Website.
You should make your ideas correspond with reality.
Your words must correspond with your actions.
The fingerprints left on the weapon correspond with the suspect's.

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