Correspond vs Reconcile - What's the difference?
correspond | reconcile |
to be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc.
to exchange messages, especially by postal letter, over a period of time.
To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
As verbs the difference between correspond and reconcile
is that correspond is to be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc while reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.correspond
English
Verb
(en verb)- I've been corresponding with my German pen pal for three years.
reconcile
English
(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.