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RELATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage
Classified under:
Similar:
affinal; affine ((anthropology) related by marriage)
agnate; agnatic; paternal (related on the father's side)
akin; blood-related; cognate; consanguine; consanguineal; consanguineous; kin (related by blood)
allied (related by common characteristics or ancestry)
descendant; descendent (proceeding by descent from an ancestor)
enate; enatic; maternal (related on the mother's side)
kindred (related by blood or marriage)
Also:
direct; lineal (in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child)
collateral; indirect (descended from a common ancestor but through different lines)
Antonym:
unrelated (not connected by kinship)
Derivation:
relatedness (a particular manner of connectedness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics
Example:
related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces
Synonyms:
related; related to
Classified under:
Similar:
side by side (closely related or associated)
corresponding (accompanying)
correlate; correlated; correlative (mutually related)
coreferent (related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction)
cognate; connate (related in nature)
cognate (having the same ancestral language)
bound up (closely or inseparably connected or associated with)
age-related (changing (increasing or decreasing) as an individual's age increases)
affiliated; attached; connected (being joined in close association)
Antonym:
unrelated (lacking a logical or causal relation)
Derivation:
relatedness (a particular manner of connectedness)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb relate
Context examples:
Actin-related protein 2/3 complex subunit 1B (372 aa, ~41 kDa) is encoded by the human ARPC1B gene.
(Actin-Related Protein 2/3 Complex Subunit 1B, NCI Thesaurus)
A. turicensis is most often related to genital, skin, and urinary tract infections.
(Actinomyces turicensis, NCI Thesaurus)
The love of man and woman, I had always held, was a sublimated something related to spirit, a spiritual bond that linked and drew their souls together.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
With Madame Frederic and her husband: she took care of me, but she is nothing related to me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
EXAMPLE(S): action taken was study treatment related, action taken was not study treatment related
(Adverse Event Action Taken Relationship Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
Of, or related to, the abdomen.
(Abdominal, NCI Thesaurus)
She related the subjects of the pictures, the dimensions of the rooms, and the price of the furniture, in vain.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Now they believe the cause is related to genes that control the activity of some brain cells.
(Migraine, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
I paused some time to reflect on all he had related and the various arguments which he had employed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
This study shows the same is true in our brains, and that age-related brain stiffening has a significant impact on the function of brain stem cells.
(Cambridge scientists reverse ageing process in rat brain stem cells, University of Cambridge)
