Relate vs Relating - What's the difference?
relate | relating |
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
The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation.
* Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
* 2008 , Stephen Kemmis, Tracey J. Smith, Enabling praxis: challenges for education
As verbs the difference between relate and relating
is that relate is while relating is .As a noun relating is
the act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation.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 .
Synonyms
* chronicle * describe * divulge * recount * staterelating
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Such a dynamic, biological concept of consciousness as reflecting ever-shifting 'global mappings' in the brain, ceaseless relatings of current perceptions to past mappings, has been articulated with great force recently, by Gerald Edelman.
- What makes a complex practice like education or medicine distinctive is the content of sayings, doings and relatings characteristic of the practice
