related
part of speech
adjective (related, more related); verb form (past of relate: relate, relates, related, relating)
meaning for a pupil
1) Related means connected in some way: «The two questions are related.» tree →
2) Related means in the same family: «We are related — she is my cousin.» tree →
3) It is also the past of «relate»: to tell a story, or to understand someone's feelings. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, related facts go together: 3 + 4 = 7 and 7 − 4 = 3 are a related fact family. In science, related animals share an ancestor. In everyday life «related» tells about family. Phrases: «related to», «closely related», «related facts», «weather-related».
examples
- Are you related to Mrs Brown? tree →
- Lions and house cats are related. tree →
- Addition and subtraction are related. tree →
- Write a sentence related to the picture. tree →
- The two crimes were related. tree →
- My cousins and I are related through my mum. tree →
- Many school closures were weather-related. tree →
- And as they flew the angel related the history. tree →
note
Used with «to»: «related to». Opposite: «unrelated». Noun: «relative» (a family member) and «relationship». In maths «related facts» or «fact family» means the same three numbers used in +, − or ×, ÷.
In the corpora
- Hyenas look like dogs but are more closely related to cats and mongooses; the aardwolf is a small hyena that eats mostly termites.
- Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to elephants and aardvarks, African animals that dig for ants.
- Woodlice need damp places and hide under logs and stones; they are crustaceans, related to crabs and shrimps, not insects.
- A semicolon joins two complete sentences that are closely related: "It rained; we stayed in."
- Such a group of related languages is called a family.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «related» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.