transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪleɪt ]
( relates, relating, related)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something relates to a particular subject, it concerns that subject.
Other recommendations relate to the details of how such data is stored...
VERB : V to n
2.
The way that two things relate , or the way that one thing relates to another, is the sort of connection that exists between them.
Cornell University offers a course that investigates how language relates to particular cultural codes...
Many Christians today feel the need to relate their experience to that of the Hindu, the Buddhist and the Muslim.
...a paper called ‘Language and Freedom’ in which Chomsky tries to relate his linguistic and political views...
At the end, we have a sense of names, dates, and events but no sense of how they relate.
V-RECIP : V to n , V n to n , V pl-n , V
3.
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.
He is unable to relate to other people...
When people are cut off from contact with others, they lose all ability to relate.
VERB : V to n , V
4.
If you relate a story, you tell it. ( FORMAL )
There were officials to whom he could relate the whole story...
She related her tale of living rough.
VERB : V n to n , V n