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Definition of "relation"

relation

Từ điển Collocation

relation noun

¹ connection between two or more things

ADJ. causal | direct The energy an animal uses is in direct relation to speed and body mass. | close The study shows the close relation between poverty and ill health. | significant

VERB + RELATION bear, have The film bore no relation to (= was very different from) the book. The fee bears little relation to the service provided. | show

PREP. in ~ to Similar policies were pursued in the 1970s, particularly in relation to health services. | ~ between, ~ to the relation of the subject to the object

² member of sb's family

ADJ. close, near | distant | blood | poor (often figurative) Other sparkling wines are often considered the poor relations of champagne.

VERB + RELATION visit

PREP. ~ to What relation is Rita to you?

PHRASES friends and relations 3 relations between people/groups/countries

ADJ. close, cordial, friendly, good, harmonious | improved | difficult, poor, strained | class, diplomatic, economic, foreign, gender, human, industrial, international, labour, personal, political, power, public, race, sexual, social, trade The change of government led to improved industrial relations. a public relations exercise | Anglo-American, East-West, etc.

VERB + RELATION cultivate, develop, establish, foster the need to establish good relations with our European partners | break off, damage, sever, suspend Diplomatic relations have been broken off between the two countries. | improve, strengthen Renewed efforts are being made to improve the strained relations between the two countries. | restore, resume | regulate the mechanisms that regulate the relations between labour and capital

RELATION + VERB improve Relations between the two states have improved. | deteriorate, sour, worsen

PREP. ~ among, ~ between, ~ with

PHRASES an improvement in relations

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• 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; sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, carnal knowledge
• a person related by blood or marriage; relative

  police are searching for relatives of the deceased

  he has distant relations back in New Jersey

• an act of narration; telling, recounting

  he was the hero according to his own relation

  his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable

• (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time; relation back

  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

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Microsoft Computer Dictionary

n. A structure composed of attributes (individual characteristics, such as name or address, corresponding to the columns in a table) and tuples (sets of attribute values describing particular entities, such as customers, corresponding to the rows in a table). Within a relation, tuples cannot be repeated; each must be unique. Further, tuples are unordered within a relation; interchanging two tuples does not change the relation. Finally, if relational theory is to be applicable, the domain of each attribute must be atomic—that is, a simple value, rather than a structure such as an array or a record. A relation in which the domains of all attributes are atomic is said to be normalized or in first normal form. See also normal form (definition 1).

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

relations
syn.: carnal knowledge coition coitus congress copulation intercourse recounting relation back relative sex act sexual congress sexual intercourse sexual relation telling