reciprocate

[Re*cip·ro*cate]

You reciprocate when you return a favor, return a compliment, or respond "the same to you" to the angry guy in the car you just passed. In short, you react to an action, statement, or emotion by mirroring it.

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To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

Verb
alternate the direction of motion of; "the engine reciprocates the propeller"

Verb
act, feel, or give mutually or in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!"


v. i.
To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

v. t.
To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.


Reciprocate

Re*cip"ro*cate , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reciprocated ; 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.
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.

Reciprocate

Re*cip"ro*cate, v. t. To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors. Cowper.

To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.

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