Relevant vs Grave - What's the difference?
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Directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.
Not out of date; current.
* {{quote-news, year=1973, date=December 20, title=Hansen says Christmas time for thanks, hope, work=The Aberdeen Times
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* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Scott Cooper, Fritz Grutzner, Birk Cooper, title=Tips and Traps for Marketing Your Business, publisher=McGraw-Hill, isbn=978-0071494892
, passage=Motorola was quickly losing the cell-phone battle to Nokia for a time. When they launched the RAZR phone and combined it with their "Hello Moto" campaign, it made the brand relevant again.}}
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
* (rfdate), 11:17:
* 1856 , Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), (Gustave Flaubert) (author), (Madame Bovary) , Part III, Chapter X:
death, destruction.
(obsolete) To dig.
* (rfdate) (Book of Prayer) , (Psalms) 7:16:
(obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
* (w) 28:9:
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* (rfdate) (Robert Louis Stevenson), Requiem :
(obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
* (rfdate) (Geoffrey Chaucer):
(obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
* (rfdate) (Matthew Prior):
(obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare):
(transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
(obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
(obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
*, II.3.7:
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
* (rfdate) (Moore), Encyclopedia of Music :
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
Relevant is a related term of grave.
As an adjective relevant
is directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.As a noun grave is
cave, den, lair.relevant
English
(wikipedia relevant)Adjective
(en adjective)- His mother provided some relevant background information concerning his medical condition.
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Synonyms
* applicable * germane * in point (legal) * pertinent * salient * significantAntonyms
*Derived terms
* safety-relevantExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----grave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- He had lain in the grave four days.
- They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
Derived terms
* begrave * dance on someone's grave * dig one's own grave * early grave * graveclothes * grave marker * grave robber * graverobbing * gravedigger * gravelike * graveside * gravesite * gravestone * graveward * mass grave * turn in one's grave * war grave * white man's graveSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- He hath graven and digged up a pit.
- Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks. }}
- This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"
- With gold men may the hearte grave .
- O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
- Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave , and wise.
- ''The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.