reciprocate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: reciprocate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reciprocate 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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reciprocate \Recip"rocate\, v. t. To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors. --Cowper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reciprocate \Recip"rocate\, 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. --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.