an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
to establish a social or sympathetic relationship with a person or thing: two sisters unable to relate to each other.
Origin: 1480–90; < Latinrelātus, suppletive past participle of referre to carry back (see refer)
Related forms
re·lat·a·bil·i·ty, noun
re·lat·a·ble, adjective
re·lat·er, noun
mis·re·late, verb, mis·re·lat·ed, mis·re·lat·ing.
pre·re·late, verb (used with object), pre·re·lat·ed, pre·re·lat·ing.
un·re·lat·ing, adjective
Synonyms 1. narrate, delineate, detail, repeat. Relate, recite, recount, rehearse mean to tell, report, or describe in some detail an occurrence or circumstance. To relate is to give an account of happenings, events, circumstances, etc.: to relate one's adventures. To recite may mean to give details consecutively, but more often applies to the repetition from memory of something learned with verbal exactness: to recite a poem. To recount is usually to set forth consecutively the details of an occurrence, argument, experience, etc., to give an account in detail: to recount an unpleasant experience.Rehearse implies some formality and exactness in telling, sometimes with repeated performance as for practice before final delivery: to rehearse one's side of a story.2. ally.
1530, "to recount, tell," from L. relatus, used as pp. of referre (see refer), from re- "back, again" + latus (see oblate (n.)). Meaning "to establish a relation between" is from 1771. Sense of "to feel connected or sympathetic to" is attested
from 1950, originally in psychology jargon. Related in the sense of "connected by blood or marriage" is from 1702.