relation en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɹəˈlæ̝ɪʃ(ə)n/ (Australia)
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Etymology
From Middle English relacion, relacioun, from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Old French relacion (whence French relation), from Latin relātiō, noun of process form from perfect passive participle relātus (“related”), from verb referō (“to refer, to relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear, to carry”). By surface analysis, relate + -ion. Doublet of relazione.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The manner in which two things may be associated.
There's no linear relation between mortality and size.
The relation between diet and health is complex.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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(countable, uncountable) A member of one's extended family; a relative.
Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.
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(countable, in-plural, uncountable) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
the foreign relations of the United States
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(countable, uncountable) The act of relating a story.
Jones […] was easily prevailed on to satisfy Mr Dowling's curiosity, by relating the history of his birth and education, which he did, like Othello. […] Mr Dowling was indeed very greatly affected with this relation; for he had not divested himself of humanity by being an attorney.
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, Preface, […] seeing they are diversly related by Writers that lived near about one and the self-same time, we may easily perceive that they were common things, derived from precedent Memorials; and that they became various, by reason of the divers Ornaments bestowed on them by particular Relations […]
Your relation of the events is different from mine.
1669, Letter from Dr. Merrett to Thomas Browne, in Simon Wilkin (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne’s Works including his Life and Correspondence, London: William Pickering, 1836, Volume I, p. 443, Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king’s fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]
I shall you make relacyon By way of apostrofacyon […] How I, Skelton laureat, Devysed and also wrate Uppon a lewde curate, […]
c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–30, 33–35:
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(countable, uncountable) A set of ordered tuples.
[…]Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation between sign, object, and sign user is called the sign relation or relation of denotation.
1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 7, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 107:
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(countable, uncountable) A set of ordered tuples. ▸ A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.
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(countable, uncountable) A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.
- (countable, uncountable) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- (countable, uncountable) A subobject of a product of objects.
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(countable, in-plural, often, qualifier:often collocated: sexual relation, uncountable) The act of intercourse.
have sexual relations with
have relations with
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| relations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
logical relation (Expressions) · equivalence relation (Expressions) · race relations (Expressions) · international relations (Expressions) · blood relation (Expressions) · grammatical relation (Expressions) · irrelation (single words) · total ordering relation (Expressions) · guest relation officer (Expressions) · relational (single words) · no relation (Expressions) · relationism (single words) · sexual relation (Expressions) · partial ordering relation (Expressions) · industrial relations (Expressions) · Plücker relation (Expressions) · inverse relation (Expressions) · shirttail relation (Expressions) · spatial relation (Expressions) · poor relation (Expressions) · adult relations (Expressions) · thematic relation (Expressions) · relation of production (Expressions) · semantic relation (Expressions) · relationlike (single words) · Clausius-Clapeyron relation (Expressions) · public relations (Expressions) · unrelation (single words) · metarelation (single words) · elbow relation (Expressions) · relationist (single words) · co-relation (Expressions) · steprelation (single words) · relationless (single words) · binary relation (Expressions) · disrelation (single words) · indirect relation (Expressions) · misrelation (single words) · finitary relation (Expressions) · interrelation (single words) · in relation to (Expressions) · recurrence relation (Expressions) · corelation (single words) · grandrelation (single words) · nonrelation (single words) · relationship (single words) · sexual relations (Expressions) · direct relation (Expressions) · relationscape (single words) · false relation (Expressions) · labor relations (Expressions)
Hyponyms
correlation · function · consanguinity
Relateds
correlation · relate · relational · relator · relative
Synonyms
concern · correspondence (mathematics: set of ordered tuples) · tell (act of relating a story) · association · reference · relevance · pertinence · recounting (act of relating a story) · connection (way in which two things may be associated) · bearing · relation · link (way in which two things may be associated) · member of one's family · relationship (way in which two things may be associated)
Translations (158)
ro povestire (act of relating a story) · vo jiröletan (member of one's family) · nn relasjon (way in which two things may be associated) · ru отноше́ние (way in which two things may be associated) · uk зале́жність (way in which two things may be associated) · de Verwandte (member of one's family) · fr relation (way in which two things may be associated) · ru изложе́ние (act of relating a story) · tg робита (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · io parentulo (member of one's family) · es relaciones sexuales (sexual relations) · nn slektning (member of one's family) · nl verwant (member of one's family) · uk стате́ві стосу́нки (sexual relations) · ru повествова́ние (act of relating a story) · de Relation (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · ro relație (way in which two things may be associated) · ru расска́з (act of relating a story) · ml ബന്ധം (way in which two things may be associated) · fr parent (member of one's family) · ru ро́дственник (member of one's family) · io parentino (member of one's family) · ota نسبت (way in which two things may be associated) · lad alishik (way in which two things may be associated) · de Verwandter (member of one's family) · ru связь (way in which two things may be associated) · nl familielid (member of one's family) · ja 関係 (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · ru сообще́ние (act of relating a story) · sl sorodnik (member of one's family) · ko 관계 (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · sv relation (set of ordered tuples retrievable by a database) · nl bloedverwant (member of one's family) · uk рідня́ (member of one's family) · ja 関係 (set of ordered tuples retrievable by a database) · be зале́жнасць (way in which two things may be associated) · ja 関連 (way in which two things may be associated) · te సంబంధము (way in which two things may be associated) · hu viszony (way in which two things may be associated) · de Familienangehöriger (member of one's family) · gl relación (way in which two things may be associated) · nl geboortsverwant (member of one's family) · pl relacja (set of ordered tuples retrievable by a database) · he יחס (way in which two things may be associated) · pt relação (way in which two things may be associated) · sl relacija (way in which two things may be associated) · da forhold (way in which two things may be associated) · ru ро́дственница (member of one's family) · uk зв'язо́к (way in which two things may be associated) · bg ра́зказ (act of relating a story) · sl relacija (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · ar عَلَاقَة (way in which two things may be associated) · te బంధువు (member of one's family) · ja 関係 (way in which two things may be associated) · ru зави́симость (way in which two things may be associated) · fi suhde (way in which two things may be associated) · ro legătură (way in which two things may be associated) · ota راپور (act of relating a story) · uk пере́каз (act of relating a story) · fr parenté (member of one's family) · de Angehörige (member of one's family) · ro narare (act of relating a story) · nl relatie (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · sa बन्धु (way in which two things may be associated) · ta உடலுறவு (sexual relations) · sv relation (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · bg родни́на (member of one's family) · ckb پەیوەندی (way in which two things may be associated) · da familiemedlem (member of one's family) · fi relaatio (set of ordered tuples retrievable by a database) · ru половы́е отноше́ния (sexual relations) · sl odnos (way in which two things may be associated) · sv släkting (member of one's family) · fr relation (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · ta உறவினர் (member of one's family) · nl gezinslid (member of one's family) · vo röletanef (member of one's family) · bg зави́симост (way in which two things may be associated) · th ความสัมพันธ์ (way in which two things may be associated) · hu hozzátartozó (member of one's family) · de Beziehung (way in which two things may be associated) · bg повествова́ние (act of relating a story) · de Verwandtschaft (member of one's family) · ro legătură (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · lad raporto (way in which two things may be associated) · cmn 關係 /关系 (set of ordered tuples retrievable by a database) · hu elbeszélés (act of relating a story) · nb familiemedlem (member of one's family) · sk vzťah (way in which two things may be associated) · nb relasjon (way in which two things may be associated) · sv samband (way in which two things may be associated) · ro rudenie (member of one's family) · be адно́сіны (way in which two things may be associated) · fr parentage (member of one's family) · nl familielid (member of one's family) · fi sukulainen (member of one's family) · es pariente (member of one's family) · ta உறவு (member of one's family) · de Relation (set of ordered tuples retrievable by a database) · fi omainen (member of one's family) · fi kertomus (act of relating a story) · hu kapcsolat (way in which two things may be associated) · fr parentèle (member of one's family) · uk ро́зповідь (act of relating a story) · hu reláció (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · nn familiemedlem (member of one's family) · hy ազգական (member of one's family) · uk відно́шення (way in which two things may be associated) · hu elmesélés (act of relating a story) · ota خبر (act of relating a story) · tr akraba (member of one's family) · hu viszony (sexual relations) · sv relation (way in which two things may be associated) · es relación (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · hu rokon (member of one's family) · it parente (member of one's family) · de Angehöriger (member of one's family) · nl verwante (member of one's family) · vo röletan (member of one's family) · es relación (way in which two things may be associated) · ta உறவு (sexual relations) · hi संबंध (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · et suhe (way in which two things may be associated) · nl familieverwant (member of one's family) · pl relacja (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · vo hiröletan (member of one's family) · be зале́жнасьць (way in which two things may be associated) · fi relaatio (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · da relation (way in which two things may be associated) · cs příbuzný (member of one's family) · es relación (sexual relations) · da slægtning (member of one's family) · mi kaireperepe (member of one's family) · ro relatare (act of relating a story) · bg отноше́ние (way in which two things may be associated) · nb slektning (member of one's family) · lad atadijo (way in which two things may be associated) · ko 관계 (way in which two things may be associated) · lad relasyón (way in which two things may be associated) · de Familienangehörige (member of one's family) · fr parentaille (member of one's family) · fr parente (member of one's family) · ta தொடர்பு (way in which two things may be associated) · fur parint (member of one's family) · io parento (member of one's family) · hu elmondás (act of relating a story) · pt relação (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · it relazione (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · sv anhörig (member of one's family) · de Familienmitglied (member of one's family) · sv familjemedlem (member of one's family) · cs relace (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · tr rapor (act of relating a story) · nl familielui (member of one's family) · cs vztah (way in which two things may be associated) · pt parente (member of one's family) · fa-ira رابِطِه (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments) · cmn 關係 /关系 (mathematics: set of ordered tuples, a Boolean function of two or more arguments)