Relation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RELATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an association between people or things
• the way in which two or more people or groups feel about and behave towards each other
• sexual intercourse
• a person who is connected by blood or marriage; a relative
• the action of telling a story.
• connection between things
• The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
• 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.
• Reference; respect; regard.
• Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
• A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
• 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.
• The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.
• an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
• 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
• a person related by blood or marriage
• an act of narration
• (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
• (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
• the way in which two or more people or things are connected; a thing's effect on or relevance to another
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a significant association between two or more things

Words related to RELATION

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How to use RELATION in a sentence

• I have heard him describe scenes of misery which he had witnessed, and on the relation of which he himself almost wept.
• Believing in human nature and laying stress upon the relation between man and man the Quakers became the friends of all humanity.
• What is our present relation? Nothing more than the relation of brother and sister, which she wished for and which I did not wish.
• We thus acquire a habit, in discussing activity-experiences, of defining them by their relation to something more.
• They all are problems of the true relation of longer-span to shorter-span activities.
• What was the theory of the relation of government to business in this period? Has it changed in recent times? 9.
• Howland Sherrett, in the relation of neighbor and friend, should plan and suggest for them, rather than Mr.
• The intimate relation between emotion as a psychological mode of experience and expression as a group of organic conditions has an important bearing on biological interpretation.
• I have so arranged it that each of the condemned shall be shot by his nearest relation, be it father, son, or brother.
• Esthonian abounds in dialects, but is so close to Finnish that it bears almost the same relation to it as Lowland Scotch to English, or perhaps as Danish to Swedish.
• How can you credit me with being so foolish? For it is a very foolish thing indeed for two people of opposite sex to form and conceive any such relation as pure friendship.
• If we are seeking any serious and fruitful relation to the Passion of our Lord, we must seek it along the Way of the Cross.
• His shop is a narrow glass cage, which is added to our house, like a family relation.
• But it is in the relation of every part to every other part and to the whole that the original genius of the born commander shines forth in all its glory.
• O Lovelace! I have a scene to paint in relation to the wretched Sinclair, that, if I do it justice, will make thee seriously ponder and reflect, or nothing can.
• What is the relation of imagination to thinking? 3.
• Now there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer.
• It is never applied to the work of the Holy Spirit in relation to mankind in general.
• The ultimate features resulting from this connection are so exceedingly intricate and entangled that their relation is not easily explained.
• It remains to be considered in what relation the Protagoras stands to the other Dialogues of Plato.
• In places where the Quaker-population is thin, and the burial ground large, a relation is buried next to a relation, if it be desired.
• This alteration of structure does not constitute a disease, provided the harmonious relation of the organism with the environment be not impaired.
• To be a poor relation was one thing, to be a martyr another.
• I shall hereafter communicate to the Congress all information received by me in relation to the Samoan status.
• Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another.

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