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