# related

Pronunciation: say "ri-LAY-tid" /ɹɪˈleɪtɪd/

## Adjective

1. Connected or associated with something else, often written after a noun to name what it is connected with, as in 'work-related stress'.
   - Simple: Connected with something else, as in 'work-related stress'.
   - _The committee grouped the proposals that were most directly related._
   - _Higher rents and longer commutes are problems often related to one another._
2. Connected to someone by blood, marriage, or shared ancestry, and so belonging to the same family.
   - Simple: Part of the same family by blood or marriage.
   - _The two families discovered they were related several generations back._
   - _Although they share a surname, the two authors are not related._
4. In music, designating keys or chords that are closely connected, especially keys that share all or most of their notes and differ by at most one sharp or flat.
   - Simple: In music, describing keys that share most of their notes, so a piece can move between them easily.
   - _The piece modulates briefly into a related key before returning home._
   - _Students learn that G major and D minor are both closely related to C major._
5. In mathematics, connected to another element through a given relation.
   - Simple: In math, connected to another value by a set rule.
   - _Under this rule, two whole numbers are related if their difference is an even number._
   - _Under this ordering, smaller numbers are related to larger ones._

## Verb

3. Simple past and past participle of relate. — simple past and past participle of relate
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of relate. Use it when telling about something or showing a connection.
   - _The witness related what she had seen to the police._
   - _Researchers related the rise in sales to the new advertising campaign._

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