Crossword clues for reciprocate
reciprocate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reciprocate \Re*cip"ro*cate\, v. t.
To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in
return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate
favors.
--Cowper.
Reciprocate \Re*cip"ro*cate\ (r[-e]*s[i^]p"r[-o]*k[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reciprocated (r[-e]*s[i^]p"r[-o]*k[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reciprocating.] [L. reciprocatus, p. p. of reciprocare. See Reciprocal.] To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies,
And draws and blows reciprocating air.
--Dryden.
Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circular path.
Reciprocating motion (Mech.), motion alternately backward and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to return, requite," 1610s, back-formation from reciprocation, or else from Latin reciprocatus, past participle of reciprocare "rise and fall, move back and forth; reverse the motion of," from reciprocus (see reciprocal). Related: Reciprocated; reciprocating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To mutually give and take something; to interchange. 2 (context transitive English) To give something in response. 3 (context intransitive English) To move backwards and forwards, like a piston. 4 (context intransitive English) To counter, retort or retaliate.
WordNet
v. act, feel, or give mutually or in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!"
alternate the direction of motion of; "the engine reciprocates the propeller"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "reciprocate".
As the crowd between them thinned, his gaze swept the length of her with the assuredness of a man used to his attention being reciprocated.
Jin himself has entertained us in Parm Tower hall and given us gifts which we are hard put to reciprocate.
Pickney might be chosen over Adams led to the withholding from Pickney of eighteen New England votes, so that the result was not only to make Jefferson Vice-President, as having more votes than Pickney, but also to excite prejudices and suspicions in the mind of Adams against Hamilton, which, being reciprocated by him, led to the disruption and final overthrow of the Federal party.
The sovereign is pleased to gratify her people by going among them and reciprocating courtesies.
Lara told Bethany of the history of Sandar, and Bethany had reciprocated with stories of Alta and old Earth.
Then it dawned on him that the thing on the other side of the hedge was only a robed assemblage of ribs and femurs and vertebrae if viewed from one point of view but, if looked at slightly differently, was equally just a complexity of sparging arms and reciprocating levers that had been covered by a tarpaulin which was now blowing off.
As we went away, I heard Madame Rupprecht and Monsieur de la Tourelle reciprocating civil speeches with might and main, from which I found out that the French gentleman was coming to call on us the next day.
The Corfiotes themselves reciprocate the feelings the Venetians have about them.
I fear I am falling hopelessly in love with you, I know you will never be able to reciprocate those feelings.
She still thought of him that way, even though he had made it clear that his own emotional stuntedness made it impossible for him to reciprocate in the way she wanted and needed.
He was willing to bet she would never offer to share it with him, which was fine with Art. He would make polite gestures of lust at her, whether or not she had the good manners to reciprocate, but in truth she aroused him not at all.
He was very friendly to me, and I reciprocated his attentions, though I paid no attention to the reproaches he addressed to me for not having come to breakfast with him for such a long time.
You have inspired me with feelings that will make me unhappy unless you reciprocate them.
This had resulted in raids by the ex-slaves on the marauders, who would reciprocate by attacking the village of Salt View, and eventually, both factions realized that they were spending more time attacking one another than attacking caravans.
Well, I ciphered over this all night, a-calculatin' how I should reciprocate that trick with him, and at last I hit on a scheme.