different between stipulate vs correspond

English

Etymology 1

From Latin stipul?tus, perfect active participle of stipulor (“I demand a guarantee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?pju?le?t/, /?st?pj??le?t/

Verb

stipulate (third-person singular simple present stipulates, present participle stipulating, simple past and past participle stipulated)

1. (transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
   • 2003, Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor:

     My contract stipulated that I would make dinner for him at six o'clock and leave at seven after finishing the dishes; but the Professor began objecting to this schedule as soon as my son arrived on the scene.

2. (transitive) To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
3. (transitive, formal, law) To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
4. (intransitive, followed by for) To ask for a contractual term.
5. (intransitive, formal, law) To mutually agree.

Derived terms

• stipulated
• stipulative

Related terms

• stipulation

Translations

Etymology 2

stipule +? -ate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?pj?l?t/

Adjective

stipulate (not comparable)

1. (botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.

Antonyms

• exstipulate

Translations

Italian

Verb

stipulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of stipulare
2. second-person plural imperative of stipulare
3. feminine plural of stipulato

Latin

Participle

stipul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of stipul?tus

English

Etymology

From Middle French correspondre, from Latin com- (“with”) + respondeo (“to match, to answer to”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k????sp?nd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k????sp?nd/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /?k????sp?nd/
• Hyphenation: cor?res?pond
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

correspond (third-person singular simple present corresponds, present participle corresponding, simple past and past participle corresponded)

1. (intransitive, constructed with to) To be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc.
3. (intransitive, constructed with with) to exchange messages, especially by postal letter, over a period of time.

   I've been corresponding with my German pen pal for three years.

4. (obsolete) To have sex with.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:

     He pleaded guilty to the charge, so far as acknowledging that he had corresponded with other women lately, in order to get the better of his affection for me, but the experiment had failed, and he found that he should be for ever miserable.

   • 1756, Thomas Amory, Life of John Buncle:

     When a Babylonian and his wife had a mind to correspond, they always first lit up the fuming pan, imagining it improved the passion.

Translations

French

Verb

correspond

1. third-person singular present indicative of correspondre