re·late

(rĭ-lāt′)

v. re·lat·ed, re·lat·ing, re·lates

v.tr.

1. To give an account of (an occurrence, for example); narrate. See Synonyms at describe.

2. To establish or demonstrate a connection between: I related his grumpiness to a lack of sleep.

v.intr.

1. To have connection, relation, or reference: how education relates to income; a question relating to foreign policy.

2. To have or establish a social relationship; interact: She relates well to her peers.

3. To understand or react favorably to someone or something: I just can't relate to these new fashions.

Phrasal Verb:

relate back

Law To treat as accomplished on an earlier date although actually done on a later date.

[Obsolete French relater, from Old French, from Latin relātus, past participle of referre : re-, re- + lātus, brought; see telə- in Indo-European roots.]

re·lat′er n.

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Translations

attinente relativo

relating

[rɪˈleɪtɪŋ]
relating to prep → relatif/ive à
documents relating to nuclear weapons → des documents relatifs aux armes nucléaires

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

relating

adj relating to → in Zusammenhang mit

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

relating

[rɪˈleɪtɪŋ] relating to prep → relativo/a a, che riguarda

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Magnitski, addressing himself to Speranski, was relating an anecdote, and Speranski was laughing in advance at what Magnitski was going to say.

Most of the anecdotes, if not relating to the state service, related to people in the service.

He remembered how carefully and at what length everything relating to form and procedure was discussed at those meetings, and how sedulously and promptly all that related to the gist of the business was evaded.

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Franklin proceeded; "and we have certain persons concerned in those events who are capable of relating them.

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"Questions of the Second Group: relating to the Wife's Confession.

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She then proceeded to state the facts, without mentioning names: relating in every particular precisely the same succession of events which Geoffrey Delamayn had already related to Sir Patrick Lundie--with this one difference, that she acknowledged herself to be the woman who was personally concerned in knowing whether, by Scottish law, she was now held to be a married woman or not.

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My journey was without any accident or adventure worth relating. When I arrived at the port of Maldonada (for so it is called) there was no ship in the harbour bound for Luggnagg, nor likely to be in some time.

It would be tedious to trouble the reader with relating what vast numbers of illustrious persons were called up to gratify that insatiable desire I had to see the world in every period of antiquity placed before me.

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Tollmidge's formidable assertions relating to herself for the second time, Lady Lydiard's meditations came to an abrupt end.

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This incident relating to Molly first opened her eyes.

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There is also another court called at Athens the Court of Phreattae, which determines points relating to a murder committed by one who has run away, to decide whether he shall return; though such an affair happens but seldom, and in very large cities; the seventh, to determine causes wherein strangers are concerned, and this whether they are between stranger and stranger or between a stranger and a citizen.

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Agnes steadily refused to listen, and positively forbade any further conversation relating to Lord Montbarry's wife, now that Lord Montbarry was no more.

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