relate
Verb
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Make a logical or causal connection (synset 200715072)
"I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all"is a type of: cerebrate, cogitate, think - use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgmentssubtypes:
- remember - exercise, or have the power of, memory
- interrelate - place into a mutual relationship
- correlate - bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation
- identify - conceive of as united or associated
- free-associate - associate freely
- have in mind, mean, think of - intend to refer to
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Be relevant to (synset 202681865)
"There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"subtypes:
- center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around - center upon
- apply, go for, hold - be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- affect, involve, regard - connect closely and often incriminatingly
- interest, matter to - be of importance or consequence
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Give an account of (synset 200955090)
"The witness related the events"
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Be in a relationship with (synset 202730292)
"How are these two observations related?"is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)subtypes:same as: interrelateverb group: interrelate - place into a mutual relationship
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Have or establish a relationship to (synset 202463535)
"She relates well to her peers"is a type of: interact - act together or towards others or with otherssubtypes:
- harmonise, harmonize - bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously
- bind, hold, obligate, oblige - bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- connect - establish a rapport or relationship
- disrespect - show a lack of respect for
- mesh - work together in harmony
- take back - resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
- get along, get along with, get on, get on with - have smooth relations
- attach, bind, bond, tie - create social or emotional ties
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