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Relate   /rɪlˈeɪt/  /rilˈeɪt/   Listen
verb
Relate  v. t.  (past & past part. related; pres. part. relating)  
1.
To bring back; to restore. (Obs.) " Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate."
2.
To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. (Obs. or R.)
3.
To recount; to narrate; to tell over. "This heavy act with heavy heart relate."
4.
To ally by connection or kindred.
To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words. (R.)
Synonyms: To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe.



Relate  v. i.  
1.
To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; with to. "All negative or privative words relate positive ideas."
2.
To make reference; to take account. (R. & Obs.) "Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account."






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... strength than a plain concrete column. A properly hooped column was not mentioned, except by inference, in the quotation given in the foregoing sentence. The column tests which Mr. Turner presents have no bearing whatever on the paper, for they relate to columns with bands and close spirals. Columns are sometimes built like these, but there is a vast amount of work in which hooping and bands are omitted or are reduced to a practical nullity by being spaced a foot or ...
— Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design • Edward Godfrey

... me to seat myself in your august company," continued the stranger, "I will gladly relate my history, so that you will be better able to comprehend my unusual — may ...
— The Marvelous Land of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... Interests of an unhappy Country, whereof I have the Misfortune to be a helpless, though loving, Member. To promote the Advantage of Ireland, in any respect, would be, to me, the cardinal Point of the whole Compass of my Ambition; and a subsequent Letter may shew how far my Observations relate to the Decline, or Prosperity, of my Country, whenever you confer the Pleasure ...
— An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland • Henry Brooke

... Mr. Muller sought to remedy was ignorance of those deeper truths of the Word, which relate to the power and presence of the Holy Spirit of God in the church, and to the ministry of saints, one to another, as fellow members in the body of Christ, and as those to whom that same Spirit divides severally, as He will, spiritual gifts ...
— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson

... "I shall, in this connection, relate to thee the old narrative of the discourse that took place between Vasishtha and king Karala of Janaka's race. Once on a time when that foremost of Rishis, viz., Vasishtha, endued with the effulgence of the Sun, was seated at his ease, king Janaka asked ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown


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