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RELATIONSHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relation between people; ('relationship' is often used where 'relation' would serve, as in 'the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of 'relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)
Example:
the relationship between mothers and their children
Synonyms:
human relationship; relationship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("relationship" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relationship"):
partnership (a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal)
personal relation; personal relationship (a relation between persons)
Derivation:
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
relation (a person related by blood or marriage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Synonyms:
family relationship; kinship; relationship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("relationship" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Domain category:
anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relationship"):
marital bed; marital relationship (the relationship between wife and husband)
brotherhood (the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings)
sisterhood; sistership (the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings)
maternity; motherhood (the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother)
fatherhood; paternity (the kinship relation between an offspring and the father)
birth; parentage (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)
blood kinship; cognation; consanguinity ((anthropology) related by blood)
affinity ((anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship)
descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)
affinity; phylogenetic relation ((biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts)
Derivation:
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
relation (a person related by blood or marriage)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
Example:
he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("relationship" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relationship"):
anaclisis ((psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others; especially a libidinal attachment to e.g. a parental figure)
love affair; romance (a relationship between two lovers)
sexual relationship (a relationship involving sexual intimacy)
Derivation:
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
relation (a person related by blood or marriage)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("relationship" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relationship"):
account; business relationship (a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services)
acquaintance; acquaintanceship (a relationship less intimate than friendship)
affiliation; association; tie; tie-up (a social or business relationship)
assimilation (the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family)
friendly relationship; friendship (the state of being friends (or friendly))
membership (the state of being a member)
subjection; subjugation (forced submission to control by others)
Derivation:
relation ((usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups)
Context examples:
Terminology associated with the relationship to subject codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC SDTM Relationship to Subject Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
Staff members are encouraged to develop relationships with residents.
(Nursing Homes, NIH: National Institute on Aging)
The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire Short Form (OAB-q Short Form) Affected your relationships with family and friends?
(OAB-q Short Form - Affected Your Relationships with Family and Friends, NCI Thesaurus)
A particular category of the relationship that defines the meaning and purpose of a clinical study observation result relationship instance.
(Observation Result Relationship Type, NCI Thesaurus)
I have already explained the relationship in which I stood to the Tregennis family.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A coded value specifying the relationship of a value to a normal range or reference range of values.
(Normal Range Comparison Code, NCI Thesaurus)
A mathematical device or model that shows relationships between things.
(Nomogram, NCI Dictionary)
The relationship of a person to a study subject.
(CDISC SDTM Relationship to Subject Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The description of relationship types between a record or set of records.
(CDISC SDTM Relationship Type Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The number of values for which a given condition holds; an indication of how many objects may participate in a given relationship; the property of being multiple.
(Multiplicity, NCI Thesaurus)
