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# related

«related» in Mova's school dictionary: **connected in some way: «The two questions are related.»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#m1)

2) Related means in the same family: «We are related — she is my cousin.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#m2)

3) It is also the past of «relate»: to tell a story, or to understand someone's feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#x1)
- Lions and house cats are related. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#x2)
- Addition and subtraction are related. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#x3)
- Write a sentence related to the picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#x4)
- The two crimes were related. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#x5)
- My cousins and I are related through my mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#x6)
- Many school closures were weather-related. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#x7)
- And as they flew the angel related the history. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/9/)
- [Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to elephants and aardvarks, African animals that dig for ants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth/10/)
- [Woodlice need damp places and hide under logs and stones; they are crustaceans, related to crabs and shrimps, not insects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/11/)
- [A semicolon joins two complete sentences that are closely related: "It rained; we stayed in."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/10/)
- [Such a group of related languages is called a family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «related» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/related/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.