relate
See also: relaté
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“carry back; report”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈleɪt/, /ɹiˈleɪt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪt
- Hyphenation: re‧late
Verb edit
relate (third-person singular simple present relates, present participle relating, simple past and past participle related)
- (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
- The captain related an old yarn.
- Please relate the circumstances of your journey here today.
- (transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
- 2002, Paul Light, Karen Littleton, Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions, page 92:
- The use of video made it possible to relate the talk to the answers given to particular problems in the test. With this research design it was possible to relate changes in test score measures to changes in linguistic features […]
- (intransitive) To have a connection.
- The patterns on the screen relate to the pitch and volume of the music being played.
- (intransitive) To interact.
- (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
- (intransitive, with to) To identify with; to understand.
- I find it difficult to relate to others because I'm extremely introverted.
- (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 51:
- Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again / Both light of heaven and strength of men relate.
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to narrate — see narrate
to tell in a descriptive manner
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to give an association
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to make a connection from something to something else
to have a connection
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to interact — see interact
to identify with, understand
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relate
- inflection of relater:
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈlaː.te/, [rɛˈɫ̪äːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈla.te/, [reˈläːt̪e]
Participle edit
relāte
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relate
- inflection of relatar:
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relate
- inflection of relatar: