Word Finder - relative

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Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.

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Why do my relatives always talk about sex?

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A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

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Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.

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(of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

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The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.

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(grammar) That relates to an antecedent.

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Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.

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Relevant; pertinent; related.

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relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...

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Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.

Only their relative wealth is different.

The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.

Xander remained upstairs, letting her handle the set-up in relative peace.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Observations on the Sonnblick agree with those at low-level stations in showing a diminution of dissipation with increase of relative humidity.

Howie is a mess over what that relative told him about his sister.

It is a relative necessity.

My relative definition of poverty is "the state of being unable to reliably purchase a bundle of goods that allow one to participate in the economic norms of one's society."

She had nothing to fear from these people, especially not Mansr, a blood relative of A'Ran and his sisters.

She ate a chicken salad in relative peace at the mall's food court.

The number of thunderstorm days is probably a less exact measure of the relative intensity of thunderstorms than statistics as to the number of persons killed annually by lightning per million of the population.

But the relative definition certainly kicks in here.

She was slower than he expected her to be in identifying them by their relative weight and size.

She dropped down to the relative safety of a chair and smiled up at him sweetly.

If a second poll is necessary a relative majority is sufficient.

She keeps the relative position of the keys by an occasional touch of the little finger on the outer edge of the board.

Among these was the governor's wife herself, who welcomed Rostov as a near relative and called him "Nicholas."

He suspected the Council members knew more and that this night of relative peace was the last he would know for a very long time.

They made civilization in times of adversity and want, not in the relative luxury and stability we enjoy today.

Seems she and her sister have been chasing after this long lost relative for years.

In the treatment of the relative motions of a limited system, we may use a confessedly provisional base, though it may be necessary to introduce corrections, either exact or approximate, to take account either of the existence of bodies outside the system, or of the rotation of the base employed relative to a more correct one.

She then turned to her son as if to apologize for allowing this relative stranger to kiss her.

In particular, the equality or inequality of values of two functions is more readily grasped by comparison of the lengths of the ordinates of the graphs than by inspection of the relative positions of their bounding lines.

Burbot, a freshwater relative of cod, are also eligible for spear fishing in certain regions of the province.

Holden developed the use of liquid fuel on the Great Eastern railway to a point beyond the experimental stage, and used it instead of coal with the engines running the heavy express traffic of the line, its continued use depending merely upon the relative market price of coal and oil.

The government was administered under this treaty, but with considerable friction, until the end of 1898, when, upon the death of Malietoa, two rival candidates for the throne again appeared, and the chief justice selected by the three powers decided against the claims of Mataafa, and in favour of a boy, Malietoa Tanu, a relative of the deceased Malietoa.

He constructed a map of as many as 576 of these lines, the principal of which he denoted by the letters of the alphabet from A to G; and by ascertaining their refractive indices he determined that their relative positions are constant, whether in spectra produced by the direct rays of the sun, or by the reflected light of the moon and planets.

The relative weights of the sources have been more nicely determined by critical investigation.

But since the elements cannot be converted one into the other, we are absolutely without knowledge of the relative values of their intrinsic energy.

The varied narratives, now due to Judaean editors, preserve distinct points of view, and it is extremely difficult to unravel the threads and to determine their relative position in the history.

The scantiness of political information and the distinctive arrangement of material preclude the attempt to trace the relative position of the two rivals.

Nomadic life is recognized by Arabian writers themselves as possessing a relative superiority, and its characteristic purity of manner and its reaction against corruption and luxury are not incompatible with a warlike spirit.

When 14 years old he ran away from a relative's farm in Oregon and went to Portland where he worked in a realestate office.

The greatest relative advance between 1889 and 1899 in any branch of agriculture was made in the growth of market-garden produce and small fruits; for old pine lands, formerly considered useless, had been found valuable for the purpose.

Under the present constitution they are "fully emancipated from all disability on account of coverture," and are placed on an equality with their husbands in acquiring and disposing of property and in making contracts relative thereto.

This arrangement may be understood by reference to the following diagram, representing the relative position of the stamens in orchids generally and in Cypripedium.

The number of families relative to the area is very small, and the number of genera and species equally restricted, in very many cases a single species being the only representative of an order.

The vegetation of the dry region of central Asia is remarkable for the great relative number of Chenopodiaceae, Salicornia and other Central salt plants being common; Polygonaceae also are abun Asia.

It is remarkable that though the Jews live in relative peace with Asiatics, the great majority of them prefer Europe as a residence.

The competition thus constitutes what is termed a " block test," and it is instructive in affording the opportunity of seeing the quality of the carcases furnished by the several animals, and in particular the relative proportion and distribution of fat and lean meat.

The conception of the standard of life involves also some estimate of the efforts and sacrifices people are prepared to make to obtain it; of their ideals and character; of the relative strength of the different motives which usually determine their conduct.

How shall we determine the relative weight and importance of different kinds of relevant evidence?

They accordingly resolved not to give up Malta unless Lord Whitworth, the British ambassador at Paris, "received a satisfactory explanation" relative to the Sebastiani report.

In the relative development and shape of the various segments of the leg there is almost endless variety, dependent on the order to which the insect belongs, and the special function - walking, running, climbing, digging or swimming - for which the limb is adapted.

The remaining six, when, where, action, passion, position and habit, are relative and subordinate (formae assistentes).

The development of tracery was hindered both by the material and by the relative insignificance of the windows.

In place of the relative molecular weights, attention was concentrated on relative atomic or equivalent weights.

Hassenfratz and Adet, who assigned to each element a symbol, and to each compound a sign which should record the elements present and their relative quantities.

The theory of valency as a means of showing similarity of properties and relative composition became a dominant feature of chemical theory, the older hypotheses of types, radicals, &c.

One other instance may be given; the equation 2NH3=N2+3H2 represents the decomposition of ammonia gas into nitrogen and hydrogen gases by the electric spark, and it not only conveys the information that a certain relative weight of ammonia, consisting of certain relative weights of hydrogen and nitrogen, is broken up into certain relative weights of hydrogen and nitrogen, but also that the nitrogen will be contained in half the space which contained the ammonia, and that the volume of the hydrogen will be one and a half times as great as that of the original ammonia, so that in the decomposition of ammonia the volume becomes doubled.