Relate
[rɪ'leɪt] or [rɪ'let]
Definition
(verb.) give an account of; 'The witness related the events'.
(verb.) have or establish a relationship to; 'She relates well to her peers'.
(verb.) be in a relationship with; 'How are these two observations related?'.
Checked by Aurora--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To bring back; to restore.
(v. t.) To refer; to ascribe, as to a source.
(v. t.) To recount; to narrate; to tell over.
(v. t.) To ally by connection or kindred.
(v. i.) To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.
(v. i.) To make reference; to take account.
Typed by Elbert
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Tell, recount, rehearse, recite, narrate, report, detail, describe, give an account of.
Checked by Evan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tell, recite, narrate, recount, rehearse, report, detail, describe
ANT:Misrecite, misrecount, misrepresent, misreport, falsify, pervert, distort,misrelate
Checked by Eugene
Definition
v.t. to describe: to tell: to ally by connection or kindred.—v.i. to have reference: to refer.—adj. Relā′ted allied or connected by kindred or blood.—ns. Relā′tedness; Relā′ter -or one who relates; Relā′tion act of relating or telling: recital: that which is related: mutual connection between two things analogy: resemblance affinity: connection by birth or marriage: a person related by blood or marriage a relative.—adj. Relā′tional having relation: exhibiting some relation.—ns. Relātional′ity; Relā′tionism the doctrine that relations have a real existence; Relā′tionist; Relā′tionship; Relā′tor (law) an informant on whose behalf certain writs are issued:—fem. Relā′trix.
Typist: Molly
Examples
- History fails to relate a great deal about the mechanical detail of the Pennington model, but it is said to have made a very creditable performance in exhibition. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Inventions and discoveries in the field of surgery relate not only to instrumentalities but processes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Lizzy, to know that what I have to relate will give such pleasure to all my dear family! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Skirmishes of this sort passed perpetually during the little campaign--tedious to relate, and similar in result. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But I am sorry to relate what ensued. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- To-morrow, if there is anything to relate, you shall hear it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The little that remains to their historian to relate, is told in few and simple words. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Captain Lydgate's stupidity was delicately scented, carried itself with style, talked with a good accent, and was closely related to Sir Godwin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My next inquiry related to the subject of the Diamond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is even related that in the third century B.C. Buddhist missionaries came from the court of King Asoka in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The reasons for this alteration were at the same time related, and they were such as to make further entreaty on his side impossible. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- In the man's problem, the growing impossibility of early marriages is directly related to the business situation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Margaret told him all that Dixon had related of her interview with young Leonards. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In 1749 he drew up proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania, which led, two years later, to the esta blishment of the first American Academy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Some of Edison's most remarkable inventions are revealed in a number of interesting patents relating to the duplication of phonograph records. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Lady Catherine was generally speaking--stating the mistakes of the three others, or relating some anecdote of herself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- One of these workers, relating the strenuous experiences of these few years, says: It was hard work and long hours, but still there were some things that made life pleasant. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mrs. Cole seemed to be relating something of her that was expected to be very interesting. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Let me add another question or two, not relating indeed to magnetism, but, however, to the theory of the earth. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Permit me to mention one little instance, which, though it relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The author relates several particulars of the _Yahoos_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And Mr. Snagsby again relates his experience, again suppressing the half-crown fact. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He relates, that a New-England sloop, trading there in 1752, left their second mate, William Murray, sick on shore, and sailed without him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Because she has not seen enough of the evil attending such things, she goes and gets married next, as the child relates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- First, that which relates to the analysis of vision. Plato. The Republic.
- His son had been killed in a very tragic manner, which Herodotus relates, but which we will not describe here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Sonya