FromLatinrelātus, perfect passive participle ofreferō(“carry back; report”), see-ate(verb-forming suffix).Doublet ofrefer. See alsoinfer,collate andconfer,delate anddefer, as well asprefer andprelate among others.
relate (third-person singular simple presentrelates,present participlerelating,simple past and past participlerelated)
- (transitive) Totell in adescriptiveway.
The captainrelated an old yarn.
Pleaserelate the circumstances of your journey here today.
- (transitive) To bring into arelation,association, orconnection (between one thing and another).
2002, Paul Light, Karen Littleton,Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions, page92:The use of video made it possible torelate the talk to the answers given to particular problems in the test. With this research design it was possible torelate changes in test score measures to changes in linguistic features[…]
- (intransitive) Tohave a connection.
- Synonyms:ally,refer
The patterns on the screenrelate to the pitch and volume of the music being played.
- (intransitive) Tointeract.
- (intransitive) Torespond throughreaction.
- (intransitive) Toidentify with; tounderstand. [withto]
I find it difficult torelate to others because I'm extremely introverted.
- (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
to tell in a descriptive manner
to make a connection from something to something else
to respond through reaction
to identify with, understand
Translations to be checked
relate
- inflection ofrelater:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
relāte
- vocativemasculinesingular ofrelātus
relate
- inflection ofrelatar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
- IPA(key): /reˈlate/[reˈla.t̪e]
- Rhymes:-ate
- Syllabification:re‧la‧te
relate
- inflection ofrelatar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
