Found 4 items, similar to relation.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: relation
hubungan
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: relation
hubungan, persangkutan, sangkutan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: relation
relation
n 1: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two
entities or parts together
2: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the
man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and
excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn:
sexual intercourse
,
intercourse,
sex act,
copulation,
coitus,
coition,
sexual congress,
congress,
sexual relation
,
carnal knowledge]
3: a person related by blood or marriage;
“police are searching
for relatives of the deceased”;
“he has distant relations
back in New Jersey” [syn:
relative]
4: an act of narration;
“he was the hero according to his own
relation”;
“his endless recounting of the incident
eventually became unbearable” [syn:
telling,
recounting]
5: (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is
deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time;
“his
attorney argued for the relation back of the ammended
complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed”
[syn:
relation back]
6: (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among
persons or groups;
“international relations”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Relation
Relation
\Re*la"tion\ (r?-l?"sh?n), n. [F. relation, L. relatio.
See
Relate.]
1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is
related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the
relation of historical events.
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??????oet's relation doth well figure them. --Bacon.
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2. The state of being related or of referring; what is
apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by
considering it in its bearing upon something else;
relative quality or condition; the being such and such
with regard or respect to some other thing; connection;
as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation
of master to servant.
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Any sort of connection which is perceived or
imagined between two or more things, or any
comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation.
--I. Taylor.
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3. Reference; respect; regard.
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I have been importuned to make some observations on
this art in relation to its agreement with poetry.
--Dryden.
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4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship;
relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
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Relations dear, and all the charities
Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
--Milton.
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5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a
relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
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For me . . . my relation does not care a rush. --Ld.
Lytton.
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6. (Law)
(a) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to,
an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time,
by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun
at that time. In such case the act is said to take
effect by relation.
(b) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is
begun. --Wharton. Burrill.
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Syn: Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale;
detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity;
affinity; kinsman; kinswoman.
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