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Relating

Relate \Re*late"\ (r?-l?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Related; p. pr. & vb. n. Relating.] [F. relater to recount, LL. relatare, fr. L. relatus, used as p. p. of referre. See Elate, and cf. Refer.]

  1. To bring back; to restore. [Obs.]

    Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate.
    --Spenser.

  2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. [Obs. or R.]

  3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over.

    This heavy act with heavy heart relate.
    --Shak.

  4. To ally by connection or kindred.

    To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words. [R.]

    Syn: To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe.

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n. The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation. vb. (present participle of relate English)

Usage examples of "relating".

United States to stay proceedings in State courts except where such injunctions may be authorized by any law relating to bankruptcy proceedings.

And when a State is admitted into the Union Congress may, in the enabling act, reserve authority to legislate in the future respecting the Indians residing within the new State, and may declare that existing acts of Congress relating to traffic and intercourse with them shall remain in force.

That law establishes an Atomic Energy Commission of five members which is empowered to conduct through its own facilities, or by contracts with, or loans to private persons, research and developmental activity relating to nuclear processes, the theory and production of atomic energy and the utilization of fissionable and radioactive materials for medical, industrial and other purposes.

Congress was not limited to the enactment of laws relating to mechanical appliances, but it was also competent to consider, and to endeavor to reduce, the dangers incident to the strain of excessive hours of duty on the part of engineers, conductors, train dispatchers, telegraphers, and other persons embraced within the class defined by the act.

Already, close relationships have been established with organizations, both public and private, that are conducting research and administering programs relating to area development.

The reason is that there really is a difficulty to be faced in relating within the same system of entities the redness of the fire with the agitation of the molecules.

Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

To the War Manpower Commission, in the case of noncomplying individuals, directing the entry of appropriate orders relating to the modification or cancellation of draft deferments or employment privileges, or both.

Members of Congress and Presidential Electors notwithstanding any provisions of State law relating to the registration of qualified voters or any poll tax requirement under State law.

Congress to determine whether the article of the treaty relating to extradition is to be any longer regarded as obligatory on the Government of the United States or as forming part of the supreme law of the land.

Attorney General Sargent to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, dated June 8, 1926, declining to comply with his request to turn over to the committee all papers in the files of the Department relating to the merger of certain oil companies.

The tribunal which is to ultimately decide, in controversies relating to the boundary between the two jurisdictions, is to be established under the general government.

Moreover, in actions on contracts made in other States, a State constitutionally may decline to enforce in its courts, as contrary to its own policy, the laws of such States relating to the right to add interest to the recovery as an incidental item of damages.

Finally, in 1911, it invalidated a restriction on the change of location of the State capital, which Congress had imposed as a condition for the admission of Oklahoma, on the ground that Congress may not embrace in an enabling act conditions relating wholly to matters under State control.