Rel vs Appropriate - What's the difference?

rel | appropriate |

As a preposition rel

is (mathematics) relative to.

As an adjective appropriate is

(obsolete) set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

As a verb appropriate is

(archaic) to make suitable; to suit.

rel

English

Preposition

(English prepositions)

(mathematics) Relative to.

* 1994 , N[ikita] Netsvetaev, "Diffeomorphism Criteria for Simply Connected Even-Dimensional Manifolds", in, Oleg Viro, editor, Topology of Manifolds and Varieties , Advances in Soviet Mathematics [series] 18, [publisher], ISBN 0821841246, page 237,

Since $M_0$ and $M_1$ are cobordant rel boundary and $f_0, f_1$ are n -connected, the number $\delta:=\frac12(\mathrm{rk} H_nM_0-\mathrm{rk}H_nM_1)$ is a nonnnegative integer.

* 1997 , Paul Selick, Introduction to Homotopy Theory , Fields Institute Monographs [series], [publisher], ISBN 0821806904, page 15,

The following notations are in common use: $H:f\simeq g$ (rel A'') means that ''H'' is a homotopy rel ''A'' from ''f'' to ''g ....

* 2002 , , Algebraic Topology ], [[w:Cambridge University Press, Cambridge], ISBN 0521795400, page 355,

Then in $n\ge n'$ , there is a map $h:Z\to Z'$ such that $h, A=g$ and $gf\simeq f'h$ rel' ''A'', so the diagram above is commutative up to homotopy '''rel ''A .

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appropriate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.

* (Beilby Porteus)

in its strict and appropriate meaning

* (Edward Stillingfleet)

appropriate acts of divine worship

* (John Locke)

It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.

Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.

While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.

* {{quote-news, year=2011

, date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets. }}

Synonyms

* (suited for) apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable

Antonyms

* (all senses) inappropriate

Derived terms

* appropriateness

Verb

(appropriat)

(archaic) To make suitable; to suit.

(William Paley)

To take to oneself in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}

To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to'' or ''for .

* 2012 , The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, Put armed police in every school, NRA urges

“I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.

(transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

(Blackstone)

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