Synonym: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, recounting, relation back, relative, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, telling. Similar words: correlation, in relation to, relationship, revelation, relative, relatively, violation, isolation. Meaning: [rɪ'leɪʃn] n. 1. an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together 2. 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. a person related by blood or marriage 4. an act of narration 5. (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time 6. (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups.
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31, For many software packages, the price bears little relation to cost.
32, Similar policies were pursued in the 1970s, particularly in relation to health services.
33, The study shows the close relation between poverty and ill health.
34, The things she says bear little relation to what she actually does.
35, It is a question of the relation of ethics to economics.
36, The price the meat is sold for bears no relation to the price the farmer receives.
37, Time just consists of the relation of before and after among events.
38, She's a relation by marriage because she married my cousin.
39, How do their sales stand in relation to those of similar firms?
40, The young ladies of the public relation are too inhibited to laugh freely.
41, You should be prepared to talk knowledgeably about the requirements of the position for which you are applying in relation to your own professional experiences and interests.
42, The fee they are offering bears no relation to the amount of work involved.
43, The air force and navy were modernised but the army, very much the poor relation, was not.
44, Little of what he said has any relation to fact.
45, Some people say that there's no relation/relationship between violence on television and crimes of violence.
46, The relation of disease to poverty and ignorance is easy to see.
47, Some people may regard radio as the poor relation of broadcasting.
48, I have some comments to make in relation to this matter.
49, The relation between the original book and this new film is very faint.
50, What he says bears no relation to the the problem under discussion.
51, The research examines minorities and their relation to society as a whole.
52, The money he'd been ordered to pay was minimal in relation to his salary.
53, She used the map to discover where she was in relation to her surroundings.
54, The title of the essay bore little relation to the contents.
55, One relation alone survives(http://sentencedict.com)(Sentencedict.com), the horseshoe crab.
56, Social systems evolve in close relation to ecology.
57, The converse is the case in relation to debentures.
58, There is no causal relation between these various events.
59, Hence the amount of Business Rate each local authority receives will bear no relation to the amount actually collected in each area.
60, It is apparent from these particulars that in relation to some of the payments the S.I.B. does not know the identity of the investors.
More similar words: correlation, in relation to, relationship, revelation, relative, relatively, violation, isolation, inflation, regulation, population, translation, legislation, installation, speculation, calculation, relate, related, nation, formation, location, national, donation, equation, operation, zonation, education, situation, radiation, sensation.