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▪ I. correlate, n.|ˈkɒrɪleɪt|
[f. cor- + L. relātum (a thing) referred, related: see next. Probably suggested by the earlier correlation and correlative; but there may have been a mod.L. *correlātum, in philosophical use.]
1. Each of two things so related that the one necessarily implies or is complementary to the other.
1643Herle Answ. Ferne 27 Soveraignty 'tis a relative, and cannot subsist without its correlat subjection. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. iii. 43 The existence.. of one correlate [infers directly] that of the other. 1842–3Grove Corr. Phys. Forces (ed. 6) 165 The idea of height cannot exist without involving the idea of its correlate, depth. 1880Huxley Crayfish iii. 127 The death of a body, as a whole, is the necessary correlate of its life.
2. More generally: Each of two related things; either of the terms of a relation, viewed in reference to the other.
1644–7Cleveland Char. Lond. Diurn. 4 That so wounding and healing, like loving Correlates, might both worke. 1660Stillingfleet Iren. ii. iv. (1662) 196 If they were [church-officers] they could have no other Correlate, but the whole body of the Church of God. 1733Berkeley Th. Vision §39 In certain cases a sign may suggest its correlate as an image, in others as an effect, in others as a cause. a1878Lewes Stud. Psychol. (1879) 14 We can classify subjective facts while remaining ignorant of their objective correlates.
3. Something corresponding or analogous; an analogue. rare.
1821De Quincey Richter Wks. XIV. 115 The wildest vanity could not pretend to show the correlate of Paradise Lost [in French literature].
4. Gram. = correlative B. 3.
1829Jas. Mill Hum. Mind (1869) I. ix. 313 The term tantus which is its correlate [i.e. that of quantus].
5. Physics, etc. = correlative B. 4, 5.
1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) I. ii. iii. 204 A like amount of sensation is the correlate of an increased amount of produced motion. 1862― First Princ. ii. viii. §71 The forces called vital, which we have seen to be correlates of the forces called physical. 1867C. Bray (title) On Force and its Mental Correlates.
▪ II. correlate, a. rare.|ˈkɒrɪleɪt|
[f. cor- + L. relāt-us, pa. pple. of referre to bring back, refer: see prec.]
Mutually related; correlated; involving correlation.
1842Grove Corr. Phys. Forces 52 The correlate character of the two forces, electricity and heat. 1877Farrar Days of Youth iv. 33 Consider..some of our duties and some of our dangers—for the two are correlate—in the use of speech.
▪ III. correlate, v.|kɒrɪˈleɪt|
[f. cor- + relate: see correlate n.]
1. a. intr. To have a mutual relation; to stand in correlation, be correlative (with or to another).
a1742Fielding J. Andrews Pref., What Caricature is in painting, Burlesque is in writing; and, in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other. 1865Grote Plato I. xii. 421 The real alone is knowable, correlating with knowledge. a1871― Eth. Fragm. iv. (1876) 91 Ethical obligation correlates and is indissolubly conjoined with ethical right.
b. trans. To be correlative to. rare.
1879W. E. Hearn Aryan Househ. v. §3. 122 The right to the property correlated the duty to the Sacra.
2. To place in or bring into correlation; to establish or indicate the proper relation between.
1849Murchison Siluria vii. 134 Mr. Symonds was..enabled to correlate these beds with their equivalents near Ludlow. 1881J. Geikie in Nature 337 He correlates the interglacial beds of Mont Perrier with those of Dürnten. 1925N. Bohr Theory of Spectra (ed. 2) 135 It has been possible to correlate each term with the occurrence of electron orbits of a given type. 1930Economist 18 Oct. 715/2 To prove by an historical statistical analysis that..it is impossible to correlate from available evidence either high rates and low stock prices or low rates and high stock prices with any certainty. 1952G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) vi. 273 Bennett was not able to correlate changes in the Golgi material with secretion in the cat adrenal. 1971Nature 15 Jan. 182/1 So the observed luminosity of the primary [star] can be correlated reliably with its original main-sequence mass. 1971Daily Tel. 12 Feb. 8/2 Are you wondering how many people spend their time..in devising such idiot statistical measures, applying them, collating and correlating them?
3. pass. To have correlation, to be intimately or regularly connected or related (with, rarely to); spec. in Biol. of structures or characteristics in animals and plants (cf. correlation 3).
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 95 Transmuting relations into entities, and interposing these entities between things correlated. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 20 Parasitism..is often found to be correlated with..disappearance of structures. 1875Poste Gaius ii. Comm. (ed. 2) 160 Other rights..have no determinate subject..to which they are correlated. |