Antonyms for relating
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ri-leyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈleɪt |
Definition of relating
Origin :- 1520s, "to recount, tell," from Middle French relater "refer, report" (14c.) and directly from Latin relatus, used as past participle of referre "bring back, bear back" (see refer), from re- "back, again" + latus (see oblate (n.)).
- Meaning "stand in some relation; have reference or respect" is from 1640s; transitive sense of "bring (something) into relation with (something else)" is from 1690s. Meaning "to establish a relation between" is from 1771. Sense of "to feel connected or sympathetic to" is attested from 1950, originally in psychology jargon. Related: Related; relating.
- verb give an account of
- verb correlate, pertain
- He had been relating a thrilling adventure with a man-eating tiger.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- A most important ruling of the commission is that relating to the pass abuse.
- Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee
- This was cruelty so marked that I could not refrain from relating it.
- Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon
- They were like detached chapters of the story she had just been relating.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
- As in the case of other laws, let us have a preamble, relating to all this class of crime.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- He was relating to the group about him the details of that disaster.
- Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
- “I am not able to find any provision in the will relating to that,” he answered.
- Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
- Not the least important information was that relating to punishments of the past.
- Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
- “Oh hang it,” he exclaimed—in no logical connection with what he had been relating to me.
- Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
- This occurrence took not more time than I have spent in relating it.
- Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I (of II) » by Edmund Downey
Synonyms for relating
- affect
- ally
- appertain
- apply
- ascribe
- assign
- associate
- be joined with
- be relevant to
- bear upon
- bracket
- break a story
- chronicle
- clue one in
- combine
- compare
- concern
- conjoin
- connect
- consociate
- coordinate
- correspond to
- couple
- credit
- depict
- describe
- detail
- disclose
- divulge
- express
- get off one's chest
- give the word
- have reference to
- have to do with
- identify with
- impart
- impute
- interconnect
- interdepend
- interrelate
- itemize
- join
- lay it on the line
- let one's hair down
- link
- narrate
- orient
- orientate
- particularize
- pertain
- picture
- present
- recite
- recount
- refer
- rehearse
- report
- retell
- reveal
- run down
- run through
- set forth
- shoot the breeze
- sling
- spill
- spill the beans
- spin a yarn
- state
- tell
- tie in with
- touch
- track
- unite
- verbalize
- yoke
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