# relate

Pronunciation: say "ri-LAYT" /ɹɪˈleɪt/

## Verb

1. To feel a connection with someone or something because you understand or share their experience.
   - Simple: To feel that you understand someone because you have felt the same way.
   - _Listeners relate to songs that capture their own heartbreak._
   - _Many viewers related to the film's honest portrayal of grief._
2. To have a connection or link with something else.
   - Simple: To have a link or connection with something else.
   - _The two theories relate in ways scholars are still exploring._
   - _Crime rates often relate to wider economic conditions._
3. To bring two or more things into a relation, association, or connection with each other.
   - Simple: To bring one thing into a clear connection with another.
   - _Researchers relate diet to long-term health throughout the study._
   - _She related the poem's imagery to events in the author's own life._
4. To tell or describe events or a story to someone in a vivid, detailed way.
   - Simple: To tell someone about something that happened, with details.
   - _Veterans often relate their wartime experiences to younger soldiers._
   - _She related the details of the meeting to the board the next morning._
5. To interact or get along with other people.
   - Simple: To deal with or get along with other people.
   - _Therapists study how patients relate to those around them._
   - _He struggled to relate to colleagues after his long absence._
6. To respond to a stimulus through a reaction.
   - Simple: To react or respond to something that happens.
   - _Living cells relate to their environment by adjusting how they function._
   - _The sensor relates to shifts in temperature within seconds._

## Verb

7. To bring back or restore something to a former condition. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To bring something back to how it used to be.

## Origin

From Latin relātus, the perfect passive participle of referō ("to carry back; to report"), with the verb-forming suffix -ate. It is a doublet of refer, and related to words like infer, confer, and prefer.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/relate (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).