- relate
- [[t]rɪle͟ɪt[/t]]
♦♦♦relates, relating, related1) VERB If something relates to a particular subject, it concerns that subject.
[V to n] Other recommendations relate to the details of how such data is stored...
[V to n] It does not matter whether the problem you have relates to food, drink, smoking or just living...
[V to n] I had papers relating to the children which my wife and I had to sign.
2) V-RECIP-ERG The way that two things relate, or the way that one thing relates to another, is the sort of connection that exists between them.[pl-n V] More studies will be required before we know what the functions of these genes are and whether they relate to each other...
[V to n] Cornell University offers a course that investigates how language relates to particular cultural codes...
[V n to n] Many Christians today feel the need to relate their experience to that of the Hindu, the Buddhist and the Muslim.
[V pl-n] ...a paper called `Language and freedom' in which Chomsky tries to relate his linguistic and political views.
3) V-RECIP If you can relate to someone, you can understand how they feel or behave so that you are able to communicate with them or deal with them easily.[V to n] He is unable to relate to other people...
[V to n] I think it is important for children to have brothers and sisters they can relate to...
[pl-n V] When people are cut off from contact with others for any length of time, they lose all ability to relate.
4) VERB If you relate a story, you tell it. [FORMAL][V n to n] In Kathmandu there were Tibetan-speaking officials to whom he could relate the whole story...
[V n] The poet sought support for a point he was making by relating the tale of an Irish peasant.
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English dictionary. 2008.