Correspond vs Resemble - What's the difference?
correspond | resemble |
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.
(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
* Shakespeare
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To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
(obsolete) To counterfeit; to imitate.
* Holland
(obsolete) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
As verbs the difference between correspond and resemble
is that correspond is to be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc while resemble is To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.correspond
English
Verb
(en verb)- I've been corresponding with my German pen pal for three years.
resemble
English
Verb
- We will resemble you in that.
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- But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
- The twins resemble each other.
- And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
- They can so well resemble man's speech.