Correspond vs Correlate - What's the difference?
correspond | correlate |
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 compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
To be related by a correlation
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As verbs the difference between correspond and correlate
is that correspond is to be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc while correlate is to compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.As a noun correlate is
either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.correspond
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Verb
(en verb)- I've been corresponding with my German pen pal for three years.
correlate
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Verb
- Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
- As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.