relation

[re·la·tion]

Relation is a word that can describe a connection between relatives or any two entities. You might consider your cousin as your relation, and you might have strained relations with him over your grandmother's estate.

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The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

Noun
an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

Noun
(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"

Noun
the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man''s penis is inserted into the woman''s vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Noun
(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time; "his attorney argued for the relation back of the ammended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"

Noun
an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

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Noun
a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"


n.
The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

n.
The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.

n.
Reference; respect; regard.

n.
Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.

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A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.

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The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.

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The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.


Relation

Re*la"tion (r?-l?"sh?n), n. [F. relation, L. relatio. See Relate.] 1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
oet's relation doth well figure them.
2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.
Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things, or any comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation.
3. Reference; respect; regard.
I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry.
4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
For me . . . my relation does not care a rush.
6. (Law) (a) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation. (b) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. Wharton. Burrill. Syn. -- Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale; detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity; affinity; kinsman; kinswoman.

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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Usage Examples

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

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