reciprocate in English

verb
1
respond to (a gesture or action) by making a corresponding one.
the favor was reciprocated
synonyms:do the same (in return)respond in kindreturn the favor
2
(of a part of a machine) move backward and forward in a straight line.
a reciprocating blade
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "reciprocate" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "reciprocate", or refer to the context using the word "reciprocate" in the English Dictionary.

1. Japan seems inclined to reciprocate.

2. Reciprocate by offering helpful hints.

3. I would like to reciprocate for your kindness.

4. I hope I can reciprocate your hospitality some time.

5. Some day I will reciprocate your kindness to me.

6. We asked them over for dinner, hoping they would reciprocate.

7. We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!

8. Don't feel the need reciprocate if your boss gives you something.

9. Some day I will reciprocate your great kindness to me.

10. Motherwell College hopes to secure funding to reciprocate the visit.

11. You are a great host; please allow me to reciprocate next time.

12. Although she did not reciprocate his feelings, she did not discourage him.

13. If I can reciprocate at any time, please let me know.

14. It is impolite not to reciprocate ; One should give as good as one gets.

15. Although Miss Warton did not reciprocate John's feelings, she did nothing to discourage them.

16. Reinforcement occurs when I help you in some way and you reciprocate by helping me.

17. Many thanks for your kind wishes for the New year which I heartily reciprocate.

18. So long as he wishes to have relations with us, we are ready to reciprocate.

19. My classmates would ask me over, but I never felt I could reciprocate the invitation.

20. In the experiment, vertical steady load and horizontal reciprocate load were exerted to the joints.

21. I fully reciprocate this sentiment as I accept this honour bestowed on me with the deepest gratitude.

22. I wanted to reciprocate in kind, but I had hardly any outlandish stories to tell about myself.

23. Conversely, it is unrealistic to give a confidence unless the other person is prepared to reciprocate in confidence.

24. In other words, if you are open with people they will tend to reciprocate by being more open themselves.

25. Later in life dutiful children may have the opportunity to reciprocate that love when they serve their aging parents.

26. The concept of Aromanticism—the incapacity or unwillingness to reciprocate romantic feelings or love—runs throughout Sumney’s fragile, existential …

27. Acquit (v.) mid-13c., aquiten, "repay, reciprocate, reward or retaliate for" (a good or bad deed); c

28. Lome Agreement commits the former colonies to reciprocate to the EEC nations by granting them most favored nation(MFN)treatment.

29. It can even be used to express gratitude, implying an uneasy feeling of not being able to reciprocate the favor shown.

30. A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.

31. Samuel Johnson, Rasselas: Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate Civilities, go home, and dream of one another.

32. A stator magnetic field source (20) generates a magnetic field (N', S') that penetrates the cylinder (12), and comprises a coil that is supplied with current of alternating polarity by a control unit (24) to reciprocate the piston (16) inside the cylinder.

33. Correspond (v.) 1520s, "to be in agreement, to be in harmony with," from French Correspondre (14c.) or directly from Medieval Latin Correspondere "Correspond, harmonize, reciprocate," from assimilated form of com "together, with (each other)" (see com-) + respondere "to answer" (see respond).

34. The apparatus for processing an optical fiber includes: a release part and a winding part for respectively holding both ends of a part of the optical fiber stretched with a predetermined tension; a support unit for supporting the optical fiber during processing of the optical fiber; and a moveable unit arranged separately from the support unit with the optical fiber therebetween so as to reciprocate both in a first direction towards a frictional member and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the moveable unit and support unit abrade the cladding enveloping the core of the optical fiber under the minimum pressure allowing the process so as to form a light emitting region.