RELATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does related mean? 

• RELATED (adjective)
  The adjective RELATED has 2 senses:

1. being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics

2. connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage

  Familiarity information: RELATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics

Synonyms:

related; related to

Context example:

related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage

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:

collateral; indirect (descended from a common ancestor but through different lines)

direct; lineal (in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child)

Antonym:

unrelated (not connected by kinship)

Derivation:

relatedness (a particular manner of connectedness)

 Context examples 

Those parts of the letter which related only to Mr. Crawford and herself, touched her, in comparison, slightly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The researchers believe this decrease relates to time consumed by school-related activities.

(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)

Do not you think it has an odd appearance, if young ladies are frequently driven about in them by young men, to whom they are not even related?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This is the first time you’ve had Mars to help you in home-related matters in two years.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was a great lord at court, nearly related to the king, and for that reason alone used with respect.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A little curiosity Emma had; and she made the most of it while her friend related.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

YOU are my cousins, and they are my wife's, so you must be related."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

MHC class I polypeptide-related sequence B (383 aa, ~43 kDa) is encoded by the human MICB gene.

(MHC Class I Polypeptide-Related Sequence B, NCI Thesaurus)

If we were not related, it would not signify; but as cousins, she would feel scrupulous as to any proposal of ours.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And your friend was closely related?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)