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relation
A	noun
	1	relation
			an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚connection; connexion; connectedness ╚foundation ╚mathematical relation ╚logical relation ╚association ╚function ╚relationship; human relationship ╚causality ╚ownership ╚position; spatial relation ╚social relation
	2	relation
			(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚action ╚interaction ╚interchange; reciprocation; give-and-take ╚dealings; traffic ╚relation
	3	sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
			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
		Category Tree: phenomenon ╚process ╚organic process; biological process ╚bodily process; body process; bodily function; activity ╚sexual activity; sexual practice; sex; sex activity ╚sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge ╚unlawful carnal knowledge; criminal congress ╚penetration ╚hank panky ╚fuck; fucking; screw; screwing; ass; nooky; nookie; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; shag; shtup ╚defloration
	4	relation back, relation
			(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time; "his attorney argued for the relation back of the ammended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚content; cognitive content; mental object ╚idea; thought ╚ideal ╚value ╚principle ╚legal principle; judicial principle; judicial doctrine ╚relation back, relation
	5	relation, telling, recounting
			an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚speech act ╚informing; making known ╚report; account ╚narration; recital; yarn ╚relation, telling, recounting
	6	relative, relation
			a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚relative, relation ╚next of kin ╚kissing cousin; kissing kin ╚kinswoman ╚kinsman ╚agnate; patrikin; patrilineal kin; patrisib; patrilineal sib ╚enate; matrikin; matrilineal kin; matrisib; matrilineal sib ╚kin; kinsperson; family ╚blood relation; blood relative; cognate; sib ╚in-law; relative-in-law ╚descendant; descendent ╚cousin; first cousin; cousin-german; full cousin ╚ancestor; ascendant; ascendent; antecedent; root

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