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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62, Not everyone was wholly approving of Wigg's activities in relation to Profumo - and indeed on many other matters.
63, Those other features revealed in various divine forms were simply ignored, in particular with relation to Osiris and the afterlife.
64, The same suspicions, particularly in relation to civilian casualties, doubtless apply to footage from Baghdad.
65, Since then, numerous studies have analysed the relation between serum cholesterol and large bowel cancer.
66, It is important however to clarify some of the points made in relation to this often complex issue.
67, These will be considered in relation to factors affecting the learning process.
68, As a general point banks in many countries were highly regulated in relation to deposits and lending conducted in their own domestic currency.
69, In the past century the institutions and the external stimuli affecting the relation between finance and industry have been chopped and changed.
70, The story of the universe is a mythic drama of creativity, allurement, relation, and grace.
71, The introduction of the new type of development plan under the 1968 Act involved revised provisions in relation to planning blight.
72, A direct relation between body mass index and the risk of gall bladder disease has been described.
73, The yardage on the card often bears little relation to the club you select.
74, There are always referential alternatives possible to the speaker and addressee and to the observer in relation to any utterance.
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76, Each tuple in a relation is distinguished from another because one or more attributes in a relation are designated key attributes.
77, There are many important questions which emerge in relation to comparative study which employs place or locality as the frame of reference and explanation.
78, It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.
79, It follows that a flow activity is one which provides optimal challenges in relation to the actor's skills.
80, At present many sheltered housing schemes are trying to cope with severe difficulties in relation to dementing tenants.
81, Such a view is called into question by Jacques Lacan's understanding of the subject's relation to the mirror image.
82, Even in terms of his own quite awesome power he was nothing but an underling in relation to his superior.
83, The relation between alcohol consumption and sickness absence will be reported elsewhere.
84, And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.
85, Contributors Mary Relling did pharmacological studies of antimetabolites and identified their relation with risk of brain tumour.
86, Margin Rule 5-28 imposes various requirements in relation to margined contingent liability transactions.
87, It does not say anything explicit about the legitimacy of corporate power in relation to society generally.
88, At first capital only gained advantage in relation to labor and may even have lost some ground to the state.
89, The issue of political asylum is, of course[sentencedict.com], being debated in relation to a Bill which is currently going through the House.
90, Indeed, because of the insurance contribution condition, the opposite is the case, particularly in relation to the unskilled.
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.