Definition of Relation

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Relation

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.

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Relation Quotations

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddha

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl Marx

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Relation Translations

relation in Afrikaans is verband, opsig
relation in Danish is forhold
relation in Dutch is betrekking, omgang, verband
relation in French is relation
relation in German is Beziehung
relation in Italian is riferimento, rapporto

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