relate

relate
01. The young girl [related] the incident to her mother, who phoned the school to complain.
02. The teacher [related] the story of her own first day at school to the kindergarten children.
03. The police asked him to [relate] in detail the events of the evening.
04. The old couple [related] how, when they were children, they had to work 10-hour days on the farm.
05. I hadn't heard what had happened, so Angela [related] the whole story to me.
06. When he got back from his holidays in Zimbabwe, he [related] how he went camping and almost got walked on by elephants.
07. The story is pretty funny; I'll have to [relate] it to you sometime.
08. The victim was so upset that she was having trouble [relating] the incident to the police officer.
09. He [related] this dream he'd had in which he could fly and see everything from the viewpoint of a bird.
10. My family is [related] to a man who ran a chocolate business in London, England before the war.
11. You know, if you go back far enough, we are all [related].
12. Your health problems are obviously [related] to your lack of regular physical activity.
13. Some languages take longer to learn, depending on their degree of [relatedness] to your native language.
14. Smoking is specifically [related] to about 87 percent of lung cancer cases in this country.
15. Mercury and Mars, as well as our moon, form a family of [related] planets which experienced similar sequences of events in their early histories.
16. The melody and rhythm of the music of Ancient Greece were intimately [related] to the melody and rhythm of poetry.
17. The old man [related] the story of how he came to this country as a baby, almost 100 years ago.
18. Ralph Waldo Emerson once noted that a man is [related] to all nature.
19. Augusto Roa Bastos once suggested that anyone who attempts to [relate] his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
20. He [related] the adventures he had as a young boy growing up in a small village in Africa.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Relate — Re*late (r? l?t ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Related}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Relating}.] [F. relater to recount, LL. relatare, fr. L. relatus, used as p. p. of referre. See {Elate}, and cf. {Refer}.] 1. To bring back; to restore. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • relate to — concern. → relate relate to feel sympathy for or identify with. → relate …   English new terms dictionary

  • relate — I (establish a connection) verb affect, affiliate, ally, appertain to, apply, associate, bear upon, bracket, concern, connect, consociate, correlate, draw a parallel, filiate, group, have a bearing on, identify, integrate, interconnect,… …   Law dictionary

  • relate — vb 1 Relate, rehearse, recite, recount, narrate, describe, state, report are comparable when they mean to tell orally or in writing the details or circumstances necessary to others understanding or knowledge of a real or imagined situation or… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • relate — The verb has a long history, being first recorded in Caxton. In the 20c it acquired a jargon based meaning ‘to have an attitude of personal sympathy towards’: • Group formation such as takes place in the classroom tends to be adult centred and… …   Modern English usage

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  • relate — [ri lāt′] vt. related, relating [< L relatus, pp. of referre, to bring back: see REFER] 1. to tell the story of or give an account of; narrate; recount 2. to connect or associate, as in thought or meaning; show as having to do with; show a… …   English World dictionary

  • Relate — Re*late , v. i. 1. To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; with to. [1913 Webster] All negative or privative words relate positive ideas. Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. To make reference; to take account. [R. &… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • relate to — (someone) to understand and feel sympathy for someone. The kids need a teacher who can relate to them …   New idioms dictionary

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