Word Finder - relationship

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Connection or association; the condition of being related.

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The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.

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Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.

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A romantic or sexual involvement.

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They have been in a relationship for ten years, but have never married.

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A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other

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I have a good working relationship with my boss.

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The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Now even their relationship was beginning to suffer.

Mom always had a good relationship with her sister and brother.

More of where the relationship might lead.

A relationship would only get in the way.

It wasn't a relationship she had planned or wanted – until now.

He had become far too familiar and apparently assumed a relationship that didn't exist.

It's not good for a relationship to be built on lies, Howie; or secrets.

It's a relationship threatening to sink our ship.

Their relationship was no longer swathed in innocence.

At forty he was still an attractive man, but a romantic relationship with him was the last thing on her mind.

Maybe he simply wasn't capable of having a relationship deeper than surface friendship.

The friendly action was the beginning of a strong relationship between my two favorite women.

They might have considered her an innocent bystander in her relationship with Allen, but being on the sideline again would, at minimum, make them suspicious.

If he wanted the relationship to end, she wasn't going to cling to him shamelessly.

She wanted a permanent relationship with him - marriage.

Then again, she wasn't interested in the only type of relationship he had to offer.

Building their relationship would mean easing into intimacy once more.

While I detested closing our nine month incredible relationship on so sour a note, I felt the decision was his.

To understand this problem, consider our relationship with knowledge over the centuries.

You can run away from him, stay in the same relationship, or set your foot down and get things back into control.

She'd given relationship advice to the woman who condemned her to Hell, advice meant to help snag the heart of a man she hadn't stopped loving.

I know you had a personal relationship with the jerk.

Another friend tells her either member of the couple should be able to instantly remove the couple page when the relationship goes sour.

It brings me into closer and tenderer relationship with those I love, and makes it possible for me to enjoy the sweet companionship of a great many persons from whom I should be entirely cut off if I could not talk.

The human feared a relationship with someone who wouldn't share more than his body.

To explain the conditions of that relationship we must first establish a conception of the expression of will, referring it to man and not to the Deity.

I like our relationship.

The minute he detected something more than a platonic relationship, it was going to be good-by friendship.

If I pushed you into a relationship you didn't want.

The histories and their relationship were destined to end this way.

One such as me would view that relationship – and my mate – as a battle to be won.

What if the basic unit was a couple, a relationship, and what if that relationship had an identity?

It was as if they had started a fresh relationship.

That was the only way to keep a relationship healthy.

This goes beyond a simple patient-doctor relationship but I think our friend needs to pour out everything that's troubling.

So is our relationship.

She'd told him the truth, because she wanted them to have a relationship built on trust and love.

He was realizing the impact the lie had on their relationship.

All that was true enough, but remaining bitter about it wasn't going to improve their relationship.

Two weeks before the arrest, she dissolved the remainder of their relationship.

This was a relationship she might want to pursue if he wasn't involved in something illegal.

Their relationship was growing, but finding a place to cuddle was nearly impossible.

They had a good relationship – most of the time.

Obviously he didn't consider their relationship worth the effort.

No doubt he would rather his family didn't know about the rift in their relationship at this point.

Only an hour ago their relationship had been so solid.

Their relationship had been a bitter lesson.

I guess that explains why you're so reluctant to get into a serious relationship.

Clerselier (the friend of Descartes and his literary executor), his son-in-law Rohault (who achieved that relationship through his Cartesianism), and others, opened their houses for readings to which the intellectual world.

But the important point is that the relationship was acknowledged on both sides.