Found 3 items, similar to Reciprocate.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: reciprocate pertunjukan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: reciprocate reciprocate v 1: act, feel, or give mutually or in return; “We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!” 2: alternate the direction of motion of; “the engine reciprocates the propeller”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Reciprocate 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]