 |
relation
Overview of noun relation
The noun relation has 6 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (27) relation -- (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
2. (2) sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge -- (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)
3. relative, relation -- (a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey")
4. relation, telling, recounting -- (an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable")
5. relation back, relation -- ((law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time; "his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed")
6. relation -- ((usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun relation
6 senses of relation
Sense 1
relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
relative, relation
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
relation, telling, recounting
=> narration, recital, yarn
=> report, account
=> informing, making known
=> speech act
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
relation back, relation
=> legal principle, judicial principle, judicial doctrine
=> principle
=> value
=> ideal
=> idea, thought
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
relation
=> dealings, traffic
=> interchange, reciprocation, give-and-take
=> interaction
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun relation
3 of 6 senses of relation
Sense 1
relation
=> possession
=> social relation
=> position, spatial relation
=> ownership
=> causality
=> relationship, human relationship
=> function
=> association
=> logical relation
=> mathematical relation
=> foundation
=> connection, connexion, connectedness
=> unconnectedness
=> linguistic relation
=> part, portion, component part, component
=> affinity, kinship
=> kinship, family relationship, relationship
=> magnitude relation, quantitative relation
=> control
=> business relation
=> reciprocality, reciprocity
=> interrelation, interrelationship, interrelatedness
=> temporal relation
=> comparison
=> opposition, oppositeness
=> change
Sense 2
sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
=> defloration
=> fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup
=> hank panky
=> penetration
=> unlawful carnal knowledge, criminal congress
Sense 3
relative, relation
=> ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root
=> cousin, first cousin, cousin-german, full cousin
=> descendant, descendent
=> in-law, relative-in-law
=> blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib
=> kin, kinsperson, family
=> enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrisib, matrilineal sib
=> agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrisib, patrilineal sib
=> kinsman
=> kinswoman
=> kissing cousin, kissing kin
=> next of kin
=> offspring, progeny, issue
=> second cousin
=> sibling, sib
=> spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun relation
6 senses of relation
Sense 1
relation
=> abstraction
Sense 2
sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
Sense 3
relative, relation
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Sense 4
relation, telling, recounting
=> narration, recital, yarn
Sense 5
relation back, relation
=> legal principle, judicial principle, judicial doctrine
Sense 6
relation
=> dealings, traffic
Antonyms of noun relation
Member Holonyms of noun relation
1 of 6 senses of relation
Sense 3
relative, relation
MEMBER OF: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe
Substance Holonyms of noun relation
Part Holonyms of noun relation
Member Meronyms of noun relation
Substance Meronyms of noun relation
Part Meronyms of noun relation
1 of 6 senses of relation
Sense 2
sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
HAS PART: insemination
Meronyms of noun relation
1 of 6 senses of relation
Sense 2
sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
HAS PART: insemination
Holonyms of noun relation
1 of 6 senses of relation
Sense 3
relative, relation
MEMBER OF: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe
Attributes of noun relation
Derived Forms of noun relation
4 of 6 senses of relation
Sense 1
relation
RELATED TO>(noun) relationship#2
=> relationship
RELATED TO>(noun) relationship#4
=> kinship, family relationship, relationship
RELATED TO>(noun) relationship#1
=> relationship, human relationship
RELATED TO>(verb) relate#4
=> relate, interrelate
RELATED TO>(verb) relate#1
=> associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect
Sense 3
relative, relation
RELATED TO>(noun) relationship#2
=> relationship
RELATED TO>(noun) relationship#4
=> kinship, family relationship, relationship
RELATED TO>(noun) relationship#1
=> relationship, human relationship
Sense 4
relation, telling, recounting
RELATED TO>(verb) relate#3
=> relate
Sense 6
relation
RELATED TO>(noun) relationship#3
=> relationship
RELATED TO>(verb) relate#4
=> relate, interrelate
RELATED TO>(verb) relate#5
=> relate
Domain of noun relation
2 of 6 senses of relation
Sense 5
relation back, relation
TOPIC>(noun) law#2, jurisprudence#2
Sense 6
relation
USAGE>(noun) plural#1, plural form#1
Domain Terms of noun relation
Familiarity of noun relation
relation used as a noun is common (polysemy count =6)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun relation
6 senses of relation
Sense 1
relation
> abstraction
=> psychological feature
=> attribute
=> group, grouping
=> relation
=> communication
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> otherworld
=> set
Sense 2
sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bondage
=> outercourse
=> safe sex
=> conception
=> sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
=> pleasure
=> sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life
=> carnal abuse
=> coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union
=> reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
=> foreplay, arousal, stimulation
=> perversion, sexual perversion
=> autoeroticism, autoerotism
=> promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around
=> lechery
=> homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness
=> bisexuality
=> heterosexuality, heterosexualism, straightness
=> bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty
Sense 3
relative, relation
> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> self
=> adult, grownup
=> adventurer, venturer
=> anomaly, unusual person
=> applicant, applier
=> appointee, appointment
=> capitalist
=> captor, capturer
=> changer, modifier
=> color-blind person
=> commoner, common man, common person
=> communicator
=> contestant
=> coward
=> creator
=> disputant, controversialist, eristic
=> engineer, applied scientist, technologist
=> entertainer
=> experimenter
=> expert
=> face
=> female, female person
=> individualist
=> inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller
=> native, indigen, indigene
=> innocent, inexperienced person
=> intellectual, intellect
=> juvenile, juvenile person
=> lover
=> leader
=> male, male person
=> money handler, money dealer
=> national, subject
=> nonreligious person
=> nonworker
=> peer, equal, match, compeer
=> perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder
=> percher
=> precursor, forerunner
=> primitive, primitive person
=> religious person
=> sensualist
=> traveler, traveller
=> unfortunate, unfortunate person
=> unwelcome person, persona non grata
=> unskilled person
=> worker
=> African
=> person of color, person of colour
=> Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
=> White, white person, Caucasian
=> Amerindian, Native American
=> Slav
=> gentile
=> Jew, Hebrew, Israelite
=> Aries, Ram
=> Taurus, Bull
=> Gemini, Twin
=> Cancer, Crab
=> Leo, Lion
=> Virgo, Virgin
=> Libra, Balance
=> Scorpio, Scorpion
=> Sagittarius, Archer
=> Capricorn, Goat
=> Aquarius, Water Bearer
=> Pisces, Fish
=> abator
=> abjurer
=> abomination
=> abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker
=> achiever, winner, success, succeeder
=> acquaintance, friend
=> acquirer
=> active
=> actor, doer, worker
=> adjudicator
=> admirer
=> adoptee
=> adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister
=> advisee
=> advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
=> affiant
=> agnostic, doubter
=> amateur
=> ancient
=> anti
=> anti-American
=> apprehender
=> appreciator
=> archaist
=> arrogator
=> assessee
=> asthmatic
=> authority
=> autodidact
=> baby boomer, boomer
=> baby buster, buster
=> bad guy
=> bad person
=> baldhead, baldpate, baldy
=> balker, baulker, noncompliant
=> bullfighter, toreador
=> bather
=> beard
=> bedfellow
=> bereaved, bereaved person
=> best, topper
=> biter
=> blogger
=> blond, blonde
=> bluecoat
=> bodybuilder, muscle builder, muscle-builder, musclebuilder, muscleman
=> bomber
=> brunet, brunette
=> buster
=> candidate, prospect
=> cardholder
=> case
=> cashier
=> celebrant, celebrator, celebrater
=> censor
=> chameleon
=> charmer, beguiler
=> child, baby
=> chutzpanik
=> closer
=> clumsy person
=> collector, aggregator
=> combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper
=> complexifier
=> compulsive
=> computer user
=> contemplative
=> convert
=> copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, aper
=> counter
=> counterterrorist
=> crawler, creeper
=> creature, wight
=> creditor
=> cripple
=> dancer, social dancer
=> dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed
=> deaf person
=> debaser, degrader
=> debtor, debitor
=> defecator, voider, shitter
=> delayer
=> deliverer
=> demander
=> dieter
=> differentiator, discriminator
=> disentangler, unraveler, unraveller
=> dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant
=> divider
=> domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent
=> double, image, look-alike
=> dresser
=> dribbler, driveller, slobberer, drooler
=> drug user, substance abuser, user
=> dyslectic
=> ectomorph
=> effecter, effector
=> Elizabethan
=> emotional person
=> endomorph
=> enjoyer
=> enrollee
=> ethnic
=> explorer, adventurer
=> extrovert, extravert
=> faddist
=> faller
=> fastener
=> fiduciary
=> first-rater
=> follower
=> free agent, free spirit, freewheeler
=> friend
=> fugitive, runaway, fleer
=> gainer
=> gainer, weight gainer
=> gambler
=> gatekeeper
=> gatherer
=> good guy
=> good person
=> granter
=> greeter, saluter, welcomer
=> grinner
=> groaner
=> grunter
=> guesser
=> handicapped person
=> hater
=> heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight
=> homosexual, homophile, homo, gay
=> homunculus
=> hope
=> hoper
=> huddler
=> hugger
=> immune
=> insured, insured person
=> interpreter
=> introvert
=> Jat
=> jewel, gem
=> jumper
=> killer, slayer
=> relative, relation
=> kink
=> kneeler
=> knocker
=> knower, apprehender
=> large person
=> Latin
=> laugher
=> learner, scholar, assimilator
=> left-hander, lefty, southpaw
=> life
=> lightning rod
=> linguist, polyglot
=> literate, literate person
=> liver
=> longer, thirster, yearner
=> loose cannon
=> machine
=> mailer
=> malcontent
=> man
=> manipulator
=> man jack
=> married
=> masturbator, onanist
=> measurer
=> nonmember
=> mesomorph
=> mestizo, ladino
=> middlebrow
=> miracle man, miracle worker
=> misogamist
=> mixed-blood
=> modern
=> monolingual
=> mother hen
=> mouse
=> mutilator, maimer, mangler
=> namer
=> namesake
=> neglecter
=> neighbor, neighbour
=> neutral
=> nondescript
=> nonparticipant
=> nonpartisan, nonpartizan
=> nonperson, unperson
=> nonresident
=> nonsmoker
=> nude, nude person
=> nurser
=> occultist
=> optimist
=> orphan
=> ostrich
=> ouster, ejector
=> outcaste
=> outdoorsman
=> owner, possessor
=> pamperer, spoiler, coddler, mollycoddler
=> pansexual
=> pardoner, forgiver, excuser
=> partner
=> party
=> passer
=> personage
=> personification
=> perspirer, sweater
=> philosopher
=> picker, chooser, selector
=> pisser, urinator
=> planner, contriver, deviser
=> posturer
=> powderer
=> preserver
=> propositus
=> public relations person
=> pursuer
=> pussycat
=> quarter
=> quitter
=> radical
=> realist
=> rectifier
=> redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop
=> registrant
=> reliever, allayer, comforter
=> repeater
=> rescuer, recoverer, saver
=> rester
=> restrainer, controller
=> revenant
=> rich person, wealthy person, have
=> right-hander, right hander, righthander
=> riser
=> romper
=> roundhead
=> ruler, swayer
=> rusher
=> scientist, man of science
=> scratcher
=> second-rater, mediocrity
=> seeder, cloud seeder
=> seeker, searcher, quester
=> segregate
=> sentimentalist, romanticist
=> sex object
=> shaker, mover and shaker
=> showman
=> signer, signatory
=> simpleton, simple
=> six-footer
=> skidder, slider, slipper
=> slave
=> slave
=> sleepyhead
=> sloucher
=> small person
=> smasher
=> smiler
=> sneezer
=> sniffer
=> sniffler, sniveler
=> snuffer
=> snuffler
=> socializer, socialiser
=> sort
=> sounding board
=> sphinx
=> spitter, expectorator
=> sport
=> sprawler
=> spurner
=> squinter, squint-eye
=> stifler, smotherer
=> stigmatic, stigmatist
=> stooper
=> struggler
=> subject, case, guinea pig
=> supernumerary
=> surrenderer, yielder
=> survivalist
=> survivor
=> suspect
=> tagger
=> tagger
=> tapper
=> tempter
=> termer
=> terror, scourge, threat
=> testator, testate
=> thin person, skin and bones, scrag
=> third-rater
=> thrower
=> tiger
=> totemist
=> toucher
=> transfer, transferee
=> transsexual, transexual
=> transvestite, cross-dresser
=> trier, attempter, essayer
=> turner
=> tyrant
=> undoer, opener, unfastener, untier
=> user
=> vanisher
=> victim, dupe
=> Victorian
=> visionary
=> visually impaired person
=> waiter
=> waker
=> walk-in
=> wanter, needer
=> ward
=> warrior
=> watcher
=> weakling, doormat, wuss
=> wiggler, wriggler, squirmer
=> winker
=> withholder
=> witness
=> worldling
=> yawner
Sense 4
relation, telling, recounting
> narration, recital, yarn
=> relation, telling, recounting
Sense 5
relation back, relation
> legal principle, judicial principle, judicial doctrine
=> jus sanguinis
=> jus soli
=> preemption, pre-emption
=> relation back, relation
Sense 6
relation
> dealings, traffic
=> relation
Meronyms of noun relation
6 senses of relation
Sense 2
sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
HAS PART: insemination
Sense 3
relative, relation
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 4
relation, telling, recounting
=> narration, recital, yarn
HAS PART: body
HAS PART: introduction
HAS PART: conclusion, end, close, closing, ending
Holonyms of noun relation
1 of 6 senses of relation
Sense 3
relative, relation
MEMBER OF: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe
Grep of noun relation
academic relation
anaphoric relation
attorney-client relation
bank-depositor relation
biserial correlation
blood relation
business relation
chance-half correlation
coefficient of correlation
conditional relation
confidential adviser-advisee relation
conservator-ward relation
correlation
curvilinear correlation
direct correlation
director-stockholder relation
doctor-patient relation
executor-heir relation
fiduciary relation
first-order correlation
fourfold point correlation
grammatical relation
indirect correlation
interrelation
kendall partial rank correlation
kendall rank correlation
lawyer-client relation
legal relation
linguistic relation
logical relation
magnitude relation
mathematical relation
medical relation
mirror-image relation
multiple correlation
negative correlation
nonlinear correlation
nurse-patient relation
part to whole relation
partial correlation
partner relation
personal relation
phi correlation
phylogenetic relation
political relation
positive correlation
professional relation
quantitative relation
rank-difference correlation
rank-order correlation
receiver-creditor relation
relation
relation back
relational adjective
relational database
relational database management system
relations
relationship
semantic relation
sexual relation
skew correlation
social relation
spatial relation
split-half correlation
spurious correlation
tau coefficient of correlation
teacher-student relation
temporal relation
tetrachoric correlation
trustee-beneficiary relation
whole to part relation
Grep of adj relation
relational
|
|
