Found 4 items, similar to Relative.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: relative
relatif
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: relative
dansanak, famili, nisbi
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: relative
relative
adj 1: not absolute or complete;
“a relative stranger” [ant:
absolute]
2: properly related in size or degree or other measurable
characteristics; usually followed by `to';
“punishment
oughtt to be proportional to the crime”;
“earnings
relative to production” [syn:
proportional]
relative
n 1: a person related by blood or marriage;
“police are searching
for relatives of the deceased”;
“he has distant
relations back in New Jersey” [syn:
relation]
2: an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as
related by common descent or by membership in the same
genus) [syn:
congener,
congenator]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Relative
Relative
\Rel"a*tive\ (r?l"?-t?v), a. [F. relatif, L. relativus.
See
Relate.]
1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting;
standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not
relative to the subject.
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I'll have grounds
More relative than this. --Shak.
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2. Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or
reference to, something else; not absolute.
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Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative
capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued
with such a nature; and a relative, as it is a part
of the universe, and so stands in such a relations
to the whole. --South.
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3. (Gram.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an
antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
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4. (Mus.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys,
which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones,
admit of a natural transition from one to the other.
--Moore (Encyc. of Music).
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Relative clause (Gram.), a clause introduced by a relative
pronoun.
Relative term, a term which implies relation to, as
guardian to ward, matter to servant, husband to wife. Cf.
Correlative.
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Relative
\Rel"a*tive\, n.
One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its
relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one
of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected
by any relation. Specifically:
(a) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one
allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
“Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives.”
--Bp. Fell.
(b) (Gram.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or
represents, another word or phrase, called its
antecedent; as, the relatives
“who”,
“which”,
“that”.
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