Relate

Definitions: Relate

Relate

Verb

1. Make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind".

2. Be about; have to do with; be relevant to; refer, pertain, or relate to; "What's this novel all about?"; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk".

3. Give an account of; "The witness related the events".

4. Be in a relationship with: "How are these two observations related?".

5. Have a relationship to.

6. Bring into relation with.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "relate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Relate

Description

Verb: describe; set forth; (state); draw a picture, picture; portray; (represent); characterize, particularize; narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's battles over again.

Relation

Verb: be related; Adjective: have a relation; Noun: relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to, belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest.

Crosswords: Relate

Someone you can relate to, someone who opens things up for you. (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

For reasons passing understanding, people do not relate guns to gun-related crime. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I can so relate to her. She worked really hard to look that good, and people just don't appreciate that kind of effort. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Finally a color I can relate to! (The Incredible Hulk; writing credit: Jack Kirby; Stan Lee)

I pray you, in your letters; when you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of them as they are. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. (Othello; writing credit: William Shakespeare)

You can't even relate ta... ("What Would You Do"; performing artist: City High)

But everybody just feels like they can relate ("Sing For The Moment"; performing artist: EMINEM)

I can't relate and that's a problem I'm feeling ("If You're Gone"; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

'till we find ourselves a partner someone to relate toThen we slow down, before we fall down. ("Millennium"; performing artist: Robbie Williams)

You need to be there when your baby's old enough to relate ("WALKIN' ON THE SUN"; performing artist: Smash Mouth)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Every Kid's Guide to Laws That Relate to School and Work (Living Skills) (reference)

• Family Stories You Can Relate to (Reading Rainbow Readers) (reference)

• Fearless Loving: 8 Simple Truths That Will Change the Way You Date, Mate, and Relate (reference)

• Sharing the Truth in Love: How to Relate to People of Other Faiths (reference)

• Witnessing to Jews: Practical Ways to Relate the Love of Jesus (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Relax Relate Release (reference)

• Who Can Relate [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Figure 62. Leger bathometer designed by the engineer Maurice Leger working in collaboration with Prince Albert I of Monaco. It was designed to measure small variations in the force of gravity and relate them to the depth of water.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Oxygen Free Radicals : Frontiers in Basic Sciences That Relate to Heart, Lung, And Blood Diseases Symposium.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

At any time the League of Nations may recommend the revision of such of these Articles as relate to a permanent administrative regime. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is all that I can relate of the how, where, and when.

This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

I don't want to know, I don't want to see, I don't want to hear, he yelled as he ran, "this is not my planet, I didn't choose to be here, I don't want to get involved, just get me out of here, and get me to a party, with people I can relate to!" Smoke and flame billowed from the pitch.

We must render an account of what took place in that soul, and we can relate only what was there.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Your search will produce a list of various documents, all of which will relate in some way to Fuchs' dystrophy. (references)

Long-term complications of implantation relate to flap breakdown, electrode migration, and receiver-stimulator migration. (references)

As research progresses, it is turning up clues to how plaques and tangles develop and how they relate to other changes in the brain. (references)

Business

Unfortunately, consumers often relate U.S. products with higher prices. (references)

Low health levels in rural areas relate to overall poverty and lack of access to advanced services. (references)

This means that taxes on energy products do not relate to their use in the metallurgy and chemical industries. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mozambique

The law provides for freedom of speech and of the press, and the Government generally respects these rights in practice; however, limitations on these rights are permitted if they relate to the media's obligations to respect the Constitution, human dignity, the imperatives of foreign policy, or national defense. (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

These treaties relate to both personal and corporate income taxes. (references)

Belgium

Performance requirements in Belgium usually relate to the number of jobs created. (references)

Human Rights

Kazakhstan

During the year, the group researched international practice to improve juvenile justice and reviewed legislation and the judicial system as they relate to prisons. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

The majority of requests are from elderly persons and relate to pension and employment histories from occupied territories during the conflict. (references)

Political Economy

UKRAINE

Product testing and certification generally relate to technical, safety and environmental standards, and efficacy requirements for pharmaceutical and veterinary products. (references)

Political Rights

Fiji

The inquiry did not relate to the November 2000 mutiny. (references)

Trade

Hong Kong

What few there are relate to fire control (gas and electricity) in the city's high rise buildings. (references)

Luxembourg

These special, highly detailed, and diverse regulations relate largely to health and quality standards and are embodied in formal Luxembourg legislation and EU Directives. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

This will help the Vietnamese side understand how to relate to you. (references)

Worker Rights

Yugoslavia

The overall result is a highly fragmented labor structure composed of workers who relate to the needs of their individual union but rarely to those of other workers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "relate": relate an anecdote ♦ relate into ♦ relate the cause with the effect ♦ relate to ♦ To relate one's self ♦ to relate windows. Additional references.

Ending with "relate": inter-relate.

Afrikaan

vertel (narrate, tell), verhaal (account, history, narrate, narrative, story, tale, tell), aanbetref (concern). (various references)

Albanian

rrëfej (confess, disbosom, narrate, recite, recount), tregoj (argue, bear, bespeak, betoken, bring out, connotate, connote, denote, designate, direct, display, establish, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose, express oneself, extend, finger, give away, indicate, infer, make out, manifest, narrate, note, point out, present, proclaim, produce, profess, prove, read, recite, show, show round, spiel, spin out, tell, tell tales, yield), lidhem (associate, attach, bind, cohere, communicate, connect, correlate, interconnexion, link, tie), lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, link, moor, regard, respect, solder, splice, string, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite), ka të bëj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نسب الى (impute), ‏قص (clip, clipping, cut, narrate, recount, report, scissor, shear, shearing, shorn, snip, styling, tell), ‏حكى (narrate, recount, retrace, tale, tell), ‏خلق علاقة, ‏خص (allot, apportion, belong, exhort, pertain, serve), ‏إتصل (approach, communicate, connect, contact, join, pertain, reach, respect), ‏أقام علاقة سببية بين, ‏روى يحكي (recount, tell), ‏روى (irrigate, narrate, quench, recite, recount, report, retail, retrace, saturate, slake, sluice, story, tell, water), ‏ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сроден съм (be allied to, osculate), установявам връзка, свързан съм, реагирам положително, разказвам (narrate, pitch, recite, record, recount, report, tell, tell around), отнасям (blow away, carry away, number, snatch, subsume, take away, take off, walk away with, wash away, whiffle, whip off). (various references)

Chinese 

有關連 , 敘述 (tell or talk about), 关系 (Relating, relational, relationship, tie-up). (various references)

Czech

vztahovat se, vypravovat (narrate, tell, tell off), uvést do souvislosti, týkat se (appertain, apply, bear, concern, involve, pertain, regard). (various references)

Danish

fortælle (narrate, tell). (various references)

Dutch

vertellen (narrate, tell), verhalen (narrate, tell, warp), debiteren (narrate, tell). (various references)

Esperanto

rilati (concern), rakonti (narrate, tell). (various references)

Faeroese

siga frá (acquaint, announce, inform, let know, narrate, tell), greiða frá (account for, explain, narrate, tell). (various references)

Farsi 

نقل کردن (Convey, Tell, Transcribe), گفتن (Bubble, Cite, Inform, Intimate, Observe, Rehearse, Say, Tell, Utter, Utterance), گزارش دادن (Report), شرح دادن (Demonstrate, Depict, Describe, Detail, Explain, Give, Illustrate, Narrate), بازگوکردن (Repeat). (various references)

Finnish

kertoa (describe, multiply, narrate, report, state, tell). (various references)

French

raconter (recount), conter. (various references)

Frisian

oanbelangje (concern), fertelle (narrate, tell), ferhelje (narrate, tell). (various references)

German

erzählen (bandy, narrate, narrative, recount, tell, telling, to recount, to relate, to tell), sich beziehen (cloud over, concern, darken, refer back, to relate), berichten (cover, give an account, refer, report, tell, to refer, to relate, to report). (various references)

Greek 

διηγούμαι (narrate, recite, recount, tell). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליחס (attach, attribute, refer), לקשור (bind, bond, connect, hitch, knit, plot, tether, tie, truss), ל�"תיחס (deal, hold true, refer, regard, treat), לספר (narrate, recite, recount, tell). (various references)

Hungarian

elmond (narrate, recite, recount, set out, tell, to recite, to recount, to relate, to represent, to unfold, unfold). (various references)

Icelandic

segja frá (narrate, tell), segja (narrate, say, tell). (various references)

Indonesian

meriwayatkan, memaparkan (flatten, roll out), memadahkan (pronounce), bercerita. (various references)

Italian

raccontare (narrate, recount, tell), narrare (narrate, recount, tell). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

関係つける (to relate), 関係付ける (to connect with, to relate to), 述べ立てる (to dwell eloquently, to relate at great length), 総毛立つ (to relate a hair-raising account or experience). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そうけ� つ (to relate a hair-raising account or experience), のべたてる (to dwell eloquently, to relate at great length), か�"けいずける (to connect with, to relate to), か�"けいつける (to relate). (various references)

Korean 

관� �시키십시�". (various references)

Manx

cur ry-cheilley (assemblage, assemble, associate, clump, combine, compile, connect, connotation, consolidate, consolidation, construct, evolve, incorporate, keep together, reconcile, sum, teamwork), bentyn da (belong, pertain, relation, relevant, touch, vis-\o'a-'-vis), aaloayrt (recite, repeat). (various references)

Norwegian

fortelle (narrate, tell). (various references)

Papiamen

tin di aber ku (concern), conta (count, narrate, tell). (various references)

Pig Latin

elateray

Polish

opowiadać. (various references)

Portuguese

narrar (describe, narrate, state, tell, weave), contar (account, count, depend, narrate, narrated in english, number, numeration, reckon, report, tell, to count). (various references)

Romanian

povesti (Herald, narrate, recite, report, review, tell), nara (narrate, recount, tell), istorisi (narrate, recite, tell). (various references)

Russian 

связывать (associate, band, band together, bind, bond, brace, catenate, colligate, concatenate, connect, coupled, edit, interconnect, interconnexion, join, joint, knit, link, linked, relating, tie, tie down, tied, truss). (various references)

Scottish

innis (an island, declare, grazing field, island, meadow, narrate, report, tell). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ispričati (narrate, tell), imati veze, dovesti u vezu. (various references)

Spanish

contar (calculate, check, count, counting, look to, narrate, number, pitch, reckon, recount, retail, spin, tell, yarn), relacionar (bracket, link, link together, link up, refer, tie in). (various references)

Sranan

fruteri (narrate, tell). (various references)

Swedish

relatera (recount, retail), förtälja (narrate, tell), anknyta (attach, connect, join, unite). (various references)

Tagalog

sabíhin (narrate, tell). (various references)

Thai

เกี่ยวข้อง, เล่า (rehearse), ทำให้เกี่ยวข้องกัน. (various references)

Turkish

ilişkisi olmak (concern, do with, have smth. to do with, interrelate, know, tie in), ilişki kurmak (contact, familiarize, have intercourse with, have it off, hook up, hump, interrelate, liaise, make, make contact, make out, tie in, tie up), ilgili olmak (appertain, apply, be interested in, be pertinent to, belong, bound up with, come to, connect, pertain, refer, regard), bağlantı kurmak (corelate, establish a connection with, get hold of, link, link up, make contact, tap), bağlı olmak (appertain, be attached to, be based on, be linked, bound up with, cleave, depend, hang, hang on, hinge on, interconnect, interdepend, pay homage to, pivot, rest on, sit under, turn on, turn upon), anlatmak (account for, be enunciative of, clarify, communicate, describe, explain, explicate, express, narrate, put smth. across, recount, report, show forth, tell, unload), ait olmak (appertain, belong to, cocern, pertain, refer, regard, reside). (various references)

Turkmen 

beяan etmek (describe, retell). (various references)

Ukranian 

установлювати зв'язок (affiliate, contact, liaise), розповідати (discourse, narrate, recount, tell), мати відношення. (various references)

Welsh

mynegi (declare, express, tell), dywedyd (narrate, say, tell), dweud (narrate, say, speak, tell), adrodd (recite). (various references)

Zulu

-tshela (narrate, tell). (various references)

commemoro, edant, edat, edatis, ede, edebant, edebat, edendo, edent, edente, edentes, edentibus, edere, ederent, edes, edetis, edetur, edidit, edit, edite, edunt, exaequo exequo, exponat, exponebat, exponere, exponerent, exposita, exposito, expositura, expositurus, exposuerunt, exposui, exposuisset, exposuisti, exposuit, fero tuli latum, intima, memorabitur, memorabor, memorabuntur, memorans, memorantes, memorantur, memorare, memoraretur, memorari, memorationem, memoratum, memoratus, memoravimus, memorentur, memores, memoretur, narra, narrabant, narrabat, narrabimus, narrabis, narrabisque, narrabit, narrabitur, narrabo, narrabunt, narrandi, narrans, narrant, narrante, narrantes, narrantibus, narrare, narrarent, narraret, narrari, narrassent, narrasset, narrat, narratam, narrate, narratum, narraveritis, narravero, narraverunt, narraveruntque, narravi, narravimus, narravit, narravitque, narrem, narremus, narrent, narrentur, narres, narret, narretis, narretur, numera, numerabant, numerabis, numerabit, numerabitis, numerabitur, numerabo, numerabuntur, numerantis, numerare, numerarent, numeraret, numeraretur, numerari, numerasti, numerastis, numerat, numerate, numerati, numeratique, numeratus, numeraveris, numeraverunt, numeravi, numeravit, numerentur, numeretur, numero, nuntia, nuntiabant, nuntiabat, nuntiabis, nuntiabit, nuntiabo, nuntiamus, nuntians, nuntiantes, nuntiare, nuntiarem, nuntiaremus, nuntiaret, nuntiari, nuntiat, nuntiata, nuntiate, nuntiatum, nuntiatumque, nuntiatur, nuntiaverat, nuntiaverunt, nuntiaveruntque, nuntiavimus, nuntiavique, nuntiavit, nuntiavitque, nuntiemus, nuntient, nuntiet, nuntietis, nuntio, obed, pertinere, pronuntiabit, pronuntiabo, pronuntiabunt, pronuntians, pronuntiansque, pronuntiavi, pronuntiet, pronuntio, proponam, proponat, propone, proponebam, proponens, propones, propono, proponuntur, proposita, propositam, proposito, propositum, proposuerat, proposuerim, proposuerunt, proposui, proposuimus, proposuissent, proposuit, rememoramini, rememorarentur, rememorati, tradam, tradamque, tradamus, tradant, tradantur, tradar, tradas, tradat, tradatis, tradatur, trade, tradebant, tradebat, tradebatur, trademini, tradenda, tradendus, tradens, tradensque, tradent, tradente, tradentes, tradentis, tradentque, tradentur, tradere, traderem, traderent, traderentur, traderer, traderes, traderet, traderetur, traderis, trades, tradet, tradetisque, tradetque, tradetur, tradi, tradideras, tradiderim, tradideris, tradiderit, tradideritis, tradideritque, tradidero, tradiderunt, tradidi, tradidimus, tradidique, tradidissemus, tradidissent, tradidisti, tradidistis, tradidit, tradiditque, tradimur, tradit, tradita, traditae, tradite, traditi, traditique, traditis, traditor, traditum, traditur, traditurum, traditurus, traditus, trado, traduntur. (various references)

reccan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "relate": related, relatedly, relatedness, relatednesses, relater, relaters, relates. (additional references)

Words ending with "relate": corelate, correlate, intercorrelate, interrelate, misrelate, prelate. (additional references)

Words containing "relate": corelated, corelates, correlated, correlates, disrelated, intercorrelated, intercorrelates, interrelated, interrelatedly, interrelatedness, interrelatednesses, interrelates, misrelated, misrelates, prelates, uncorrelated, unrelated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Relate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brelade, celate, celtae, fellate, gelate, grelette, Grelot, Jelata, realite, Realnej, realt, realti, realto, reathe, recleate, redate, regate, reglaze, relabel, Relache, relait, relat, relata, relatd, relati, relato, relatu, relatum, relaze, relecte, Relekto, relgate, rellato, Rellstab, relote, relude, remate, replate, rerate, revate, rilate, rillette, Rylane, trulite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: elater.

-1 letter: alert, alter, arete, artel, eater, elate, laree, later, ratel, relet, taler, telae.

-2 letters: alee, earl, late, lear, leer, leet, rale, rate, real, reel, rete, tael, tale, tare, teal, tear, teel, tela, tele, tree.

-3 letters: ale, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eel, era, ere, eta, lar, lat, lea, lee, let, rat, ree, ret.

+1 letter: alerted, alerter, altered, alterer, atelier, bleater, elaters, enteral, eternal, exalter, haltere, leather, petrale, pleater, prelate, realest, realter, reflate, related, relater, relates, replate, reslate, retable, stealer, teleran, treacle, treadle.

+2 letters: aerolite, alertest, alterers, antlered, arbelest, areolate, ateliers, atremble, axletree, bleaters, bracelet, cellaret, cervelat, clearest, corelate, decretal, deflater, desalter, detailer, earliest, easterly, eglatere, elaterid, elaterin, elevator, entailer, eternals, ethereal, exalters, excretal, external, faltered, falterer, featlier, haltered, halteres, lacerate, laetrile, lamenter, lanneret, lateener, laterite, laterize, lathered, latherer, laureate, leariest, leathern, leathers, leathery, levanter, levirate, liberate, literate, materiel, oleaster, overlate, paltered, palterer, pearlite, petrales, pleaters, praelect, prelates, pterylae, raclette, rateable, realters, realties, realtime, reflated, reflates, regelate, regental, regulate, relaters, relative, relearnt, relegate, relevant, relocate, rentable, replated, replates, resalute, reslated, reslates, retables, retackle, retailed, retailer, stealers, tafferel, tearable, tearless, teaseler, telegram, telemark, telerans, terrella, tolerate, trameled, traveled, traveler, treacles, treadled, treadler, treadles, treelawn, treenail, ulcerate, ureteral, valerate.

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