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Type Words
Synonyms relation back
Type of legal principle, judicial doctrine, judicial principle


his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed.
Type Words
Synonyms carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, intercourse, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation
Type of sex activity, sexual activity, sex, sexual practice
Has types penetration, fucking, fuck, piece of ass, piece of tail, shag, shtup, hank panky, ass, unlawful carnal knowledge, nookie, nooky, roll in the hay, defloration, criminal congress, screw, screwing
Type Words
Synonyms relative
Type of somebody, individual, person, mortal, soul, someone
Has types in-law, full cousin, issue, kin, first cousin, family, enate, married person, mate, descendent, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib, next of kin, offspring, descendant, partner, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib, cousin-german, cousin, cognate, progeny, blood relative, blood relation, agnate, better half, relative-in-law, root, second cousin, sib, sibling, ascendent, ascendant, spouse, antecedent, ancestor, kinsman, kinsperson, kinswoman, kissing cousin, kissing kin
Derivation relationship


he has distant relations back in New Jersey.
Type Words
Synonyms recounting, telling
Type of yarn, narration, recital
Derivation relate


he was the hero according to his own relation.
Type Words
Type of abstraction, abstract entity
Has types unconnectedness, temporal relation, spatial relation, social relation, relationship, association, reciprocity, reciprocality, business relation, causality, change, quantitative relation, possession, comparison, component, component part, connectedness, connection, connexion, constituent, control, position, portion, part, ownership, opposition, oppositeness, mathematical relation, magnitude relation, logical relation, family relationship, linguistic relation, foundation, kinship, interrelationship, function, interrelation, interrelatedness, human relationship, affinity
Derivation relate, relationship
Type Words
Type of traffic, dealings
Derivation relate, relationship


international relations.

Examples of relation

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What Obama is doing in Afghanistan is chaotic and bears no relation to Viet Nam.
From the washingtontimes.com
Retrieving DNA means the Dodo can be better placed in relation to other species.
From the foxnews.com
It measures how businesswomen are faring in relation to their male counterparts.
From the businessweek.com
Then, part of what I'm doing is strengthening my relation with those two people.
From the businessweek.com
The windows are pitifully small in relation to the enormity of the view outside.
From the thenewstribune.com
We use the LTSSL in relation to both temporary work policy and residence policy.
From the nznewsuk.co.uk
In relation to financial implications, let them impose a junk-food tax, so what?
From the independent.co.uk
Next consider how much risk you're taking on in relation to the possible reward.
From the telegraph.co.uk
No warranty, whether express or implied, is given in relation to such materials.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
More examples
  • An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
  • Sexual intercourse: 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
  • Relative: a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
  • An act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
  • Relation back: (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 amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"
  • (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"
  • In relational model: In some context, relation means relation variable. In another context, relation means relation value.
  • In mathematics, one method of defining a group is by a presentation. One specifies a set S of generators so that every element of the group can be written as a product of some of these generators, and a set R of relations among those generators. We then say G has presentation
  • Johann Carolus (1575u22121634) was a German publisher of the first newspaper, called Relation aller Fu00FCrnemmen und gedenckwu00FCrdigen Historien (Account of all distinguished and commemorable news). The Relation is recognised by the World Association of Newspapers, as well as many authors as the world's first newspaper...