Collocate vs Correspond - What's the difference?
collocate | correspond |
(linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong'' collocates with ''tea .
To arrange or occur side by side. (rfex)
(obsolete) To set or place; to station.
* E. Hall
(obsolete) Set; placed.
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.
As verbs the difference between collocate and correspond
is that collocate is (linguistics|translation studies) (said of certain words) to be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong'' collocates with ''tea while correspond is to be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc.As a noun collocate
is (linguistics) a component word of a collocation.As an adjective collocate
is (obsolete) set; placed.collocate
English
Verb
(collocat)- to marshal and collocate in order his battalions
Adjective
(-)- (Francis Bacon)
correspond
English
Verb
(en verb)- I've been corresponding with my German pen pal for three years.
