Usually means: Establish or demonstrate a connection.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word relate:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. relate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. relate: Merriam-Webster
  3. relate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. relate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. relate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. relate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Relate, relate: Wordnik
  8. relate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. relate: Wiktionary
  10. relate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. relate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. relate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. relate: Dictionary.com
  14. relate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. relate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Relate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Relate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. relate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. relate: Rhymezone
  20. relate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. relate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. relate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. relate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. relate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. relate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. relate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relate: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To have a connection.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To interact.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, with to) To identify with; to understand.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.

Similar:
refer, connect, tie in, pertain, interrelate, associate, link, concern, touch on, touch, more...

Opposite:
disconnect, dissociate, separate, alienate, isolate

Types:
love, hate, like, dislike, friendship, more...

Phrases:
relate to, to relate one's self, to relate ones self, list or relate fully, not relate, more...

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Similar:
refer, connect, tie in, pertain, interrelate, associate, link, concern, touch on, touch, more...

Opposite:
disconnect, dissociate, separate, alienate, isolate

Types:
love, hate, like, dislike, friendship, more...

Phrases:
relate to, to relate one's self, to relate ones self, list or relate fully, not relate, relate t, can relate, something that can relate to anybody, to relate to, to relate to something, relate back to, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     red, more...



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