| relation |
| A | noun |
| 1 | relation
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| | | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together |
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| 2 | relation
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| | | (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations" |
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| 3 | sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
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| | | 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 |
| 4 | relation back, relation
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| | | (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" |
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| 5 | relation, telling, recounting
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| | | an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable" |
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| 6 | relative, relation
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| | | a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
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