different between bracing vs reciprocation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?e?s??/

Verb

bracing

1. present participle of brace

Adjective

bracing (comparative more bracing, superlative most bracing)

1. Invigorating or stimulating.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13

     Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.

Translations

Noun

bracing (countable and uncountable, plural bracings)

1. (uncountable) That which braces.
2. (countable) A brace.
3. (US) A form of the military attention stance.

Anagrams

• Brignac

English

Etymology

reciprocate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reciprocation (countable and uncountable, plural reciprocations)

1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning

2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:

     ... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times.

Translations

See also

• requital
• retaliation

References

• reciprocation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• reciprocation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “reciprocation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN