Word Finder - reciprocate

definition

To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.

definition

To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.

example

I gave them apples from my tree; they reciprocated with a pie and some apple jelly.

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To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.

example

A reciprocating engine.

definition

To counter, retort or retaliate.

He will reciprocate in kind.

The children in the host school then reciprocate the same.

To reciprocate is not in his nature.

And, despite my feelings for you all those years ago, you won't reciprocate, so where to?

Let him know that you appreciated his time and would like to reciprocate the kindness.

People are often expected to reciprocate when a gift is given to them.

Holiness is demanded by a holy God, He wants us to reciprocate what 's in His nature.

It's a small gesture for the gigantic reward of attention and devotion he'll reciprocate.

Unfortunately, if he knows you like him but isn't doing anything about it he's either a total wuss (and who wants a wuss, anyway?), or he doesn't reciprocate your feelings.

Let him know that tonight is all about him and that he doesn't need to reciprocate the massage.

This sun sign will lavish you with adoration and love as long as you reciprocate the same kind of intensity that he bestows.

With practice, even a nonverbal child can learn how to recognize and reciprocate most facial expressions.

Of course if you want to encourage and reciprocate the attention--you can always smile and respond back.

They made a point to add to their blog rolls because, after all, it's likely that bloggers whose sites you add to your blog roll will reciprocate.

Our site can only reciprocate with a text link.

Of course, you should offer to reciprocate by sharing what you are working on or providing access to other types of information that may be beneficial to the people who you are asking to help.

Given your lack of experience, I am guessing you may have missed or overlooked some of the important cues your date was sending and as a result did not respond or reciprocate to these signals in a timely or appropriately manner.

Plus, it shows that the parent is extending trust (spent a bit more money) and the child may reciprocate by acting trustworthy.

And despite my feelings for you all those years ago, you wo n't reciprocate, so where to?

She 's sweet to Hugh and falls in love with Butcher, and they reciprocate in kind.

For many visitors, Disney maintains records of your previous vacations and they can help you reciprocate an earlier experience, plan for an event while you're there and more.

The unbalanced masses of a locomotive may be divided into two parts, namely, masses which revolve, as the crank-pins, the crank-cheeks, the couplingrods, &c.; and masses which reciprocate, made up of the piston, piston-rod, cross-head and a certain proportion of the connecting-rod.

Then how do you expect Brazil to not reciprocate the favor on the US imposed fee?

These surfaces may be conferred on artificial wings, aeroplanes, aerial screws or similar structures; and these structures, if we may judge from what we find in nature, should be of moderate size and elastic. The power of the flying organs will be increased if they are driven at a comparatively high speed, and particularly if they are made to reverse and reciprocate, as in this case they will practically create the currents upon which they are destined to rise and advance.

The power and the weight may thus be said to reciprocate, the two sitting as it were side by side and blending their peculiar influences to produce a common result, as indicated at fig.

The term of office of the latter was marked by the first tentative efforts to modify the high protective system by which British trade was hampered, especially by the Reciprocity of Duties Act (1823), a modification of the Navigation Acts, by which British and foreign shipping were placed on an equal footing, while the right to impose restrictive duties on ships of powers refusing to reciprocate was retained.

In wheels which reciprocate without performing a complete revolution this condition is not necessary.

He is said to have been parsimonious, and certainly he was quicker to receive than to reciprocate hospitalities; but his mean establishment and mode of life are explained by the retired habits of his wife, and her dislike of company.