Contemplate vs Relate - What's the difference?
contemplate | relate |
To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
* Milton
* Byron
To consider as a possibility.
* A. Hamilton
* Kent
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, title= To tell in a descriptive way.
To give an association.
To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
* 2002 , Paul Light, Karen Littleton, Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions (page 92)
To have a connection.
To interact.
To respond through reaction.
To identify with, understand.
(obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between contemplate and relate
is that contemplate is to look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider while relate is .contemplate
English
Verb
(contemplat)- To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
- We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .
- There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
- If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* contemplative * contemplation * contemplativelyReferences
* ----relate
English
Verb
(relat)- The use of video made it possible to relate' the talk to the answers given to particular problems in the test. With this research design it was possible to ' relate changes in test score measures to changes in linguistic features
- I find it difficult to relate to others because i'm extremely introverted .
- Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again / Both light of heaven and strength of men relate .