different between counterpart vs correlative

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1451, originally as countre part "duplicate of a legal document", from Old French contrepartie, itself from contre (“facing, opposite”) (from Latin contra (“against”)) + partie (“copy of a person or thing”) (originally past participle of part?re (“to divide”)). Equivalent to counter- +? part.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt??p??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt??p??t/

Noun

counterpart (plural counterparts)

1. Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.

   Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly
2. (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
3. One which resembles another
4. One which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
5. (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.

Synonyms

• equivalent
• homolog
• opposite number
• pendant

Related terms

• counterbalance
• counterpoint
• countersign
• counterweight
• complement
• partner

Translations

Verb

counterpart (third-person singular simple present counterparts, present participle counterparting, simple past and past participle counterparted)

1. Counterbalance.

English

Etymology

correlate +? -ive

Adjective

correlative (comparative more correlative, superlative most correlative)

1. Mutually related; corresponding.

   • If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently
     game-playing model of behavior, the need to distinguish be-
     tween primary and secondary gains disappears. The correla-
     tive necessity to estimate the relative significance of physio-
     logical needs and dammed-up impulses on the one hand, and
     of social and interpersonal factors on the other, also vanishes.
     Since needs and impulses cannot be said to exist in human
     social life without specified rules for dealing with them, in-
     stinctual needs cannot be considered solely in terms of biologi-
     cal rules, but must also be viewed in terms of their psycho-
     social significance—that is, as parts of the game.

Translations

Noun

correlative (plural correlatives)

1. Either of two correlative things.
2. (grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form

Translations

Italian

Adjective

correlative

1. feminine plural of correlativo