Definition of relative in English:

relative

adjective ˈrɛlətɪvˈrɛlədɪv

1Considered in relation or in proportion to something else.
相关的；比较的，互比的
the relative effectiveness of the various mechanisms is not known
无人知道各种机制的互比效力。
Example sentencesExamples
- There, the estimated drop in the relative proportion of high sensation seekers using marijuana was 26.7 percent.
- Finally, decide on the relative proportion each Web page element has to the overall page.
- Many complementary and alternative therapies are perceived to be safe and are used by many pregnant women, but little is known about their relative effectiveness.
- However for the sake of representing gender in the society it might have been fruitful to state at the outset of the book more about the relative proportions of female cases out of all trials.
- The driving force causing these alterations seems to be the increase in relative proportion of type III collagen.
- However, relative cost effectiveness is considered the most important criterion.
- Nonetheless, the relative proportions of each mineral in the ore and airborne dust are not known.
- With this procedure, we assume that the relative proportions of the trunk and legs are the same in males and females.
- Of the two the Byzantine was nearer to the classical tradition, for it broadly recognized the articulation of the limbs and their relative proportions in nature.
- To identify effective interventions and their relative effectiveness in preventing such falls, we conducted a meta-analysis of relevant randomised controlled trials.
- One recipe gave relative proportions of grape juice, apple juice, cider vinegar and Certo.
- Most plants contain several pigments, whose relative proportions may vary considerably, producing colours which differ noticeably from each other.
- There were issues around the relative effectiveness of parliamentary agitation and the morality of open rebellion, if it were almost certainly doomed to failure.
- As a first step in cost-effectiveness analyses, there must be evidence regarding the relative effectiveness of the treatment options being considered.
- No mention was made as to the relative proportion of male versus female students at the two universities.
- The last 20 years have seen a change in the relative efficiency and effectiveness of multilateral and bilateral aid.
- This caused us to examine the relative proportions of myosin and actin.
- These proportions are relative only to one another and do not in any way represent the whole plant diet.
- In much of the early work (and a good deal of the later), the relative proportions of the collaged source material were left largely unchanged.
- It is therefore an unfortunate fact that little research has been done into the relative cost - effectiveness of psychological treatments.
Synonyms
comparative, respective, comparable, correlative, parallel, corresponding, reciprocal
1. 1.1 Existing or possessing a specified characteristic only in comparison to something else; not absolute.
  相对（性）的
  she went down the steps into the relative darkness of the dining room
  她走下台阶，步入相比之下显得黑暗的餐厅。
  the firms are relative newcomers to computers
  相对地说，这些公司在电脑行业里还是新手。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For understanding disease causation and to describe the impact of risk factors for disease, the traditional epidemiological measures are absolute and relative risk.
  Whenever possible, use absolute numbers - not relative risks.
  It varies and without going into the details one of the other problems of this paper is it uses absolute benefits rather than relative benefits.
  Zinc-responsive dermatosis is an uncommon disease of dogs resulting from either an absolute or relative deficiency in zinc.
  The rotation moment must therefore be resisted by the musculoskeletal stiffness and brace in proportion to their relative stiffness.
  Importantly, there were greater absolute and relative benefits in the patients who had resistant symptoms and more severe impairment of left ventricular systolic function.
  The distinction between absolute and relative gaps becomes important when comparisons are made over time.
  Safety and risk are always relative, never absolute.
  With its generous proportions and relative distance from the main accommodation, this area lends itself for use as a home office or teenager's den.
  We computed the absolute and relative risks to evaluate the impact of the time of birth on the risk of infant and early neonatal mortality and early neonatal mortality related to asphyxia.
  Moreover, the absolute and relative fortunes of individual businesses are endlessly changing.
  Competitive advantage may more often be relative rather than absolute.
  Of course, that's in relative risk, not absolute risk.
  All manner of other financial assets, especially the more exotic ones, have reached new highs in price and lows in absolute or relative yield in recent weeks.
  The upsurge in art prices in the last thirty years has changed both absolute and relative valuations, and may also have changed career age/value profiles.
  These boutique funds tend to be more flexible in their investments, searching for absolute, not relative, return.
  The real flaw in his policy was its confusion of relative power with absolute power.
  For example, since the supply of natural scenery is fixed it is relative rather than absolute wealth and income that counts.
  My results therefore seem to support the idea that absolute deprivation rather than relative deprivation is important for influencing mortality.
  Young mothers struggle alone to bring up a growing proportion of children in relative poverty and more and more old people live out their days in uncared-for solitude.
  Synonyms
  moderate, reasonable, a fair degree of, considerable, some
  comparative, qualified, modified
  in/by comparison
2Grammar
Denoting a pronoun, determiner, or adverb that refers to an expressed or implied antecedent and attaches a subordinate clause to it, e.g. which, who.
〔语法〕（代词、限定词或副词）关系的；（从句）由关系词引导的
Example sentencesExamples
- The other personal relative pronoun, who, doesn't seem to be affected nearly as much.
- Secondly, the relative pronoun has an antecedent in the poem, albeit divided from it by a colon.
- Both have missed out the relative pronoun ‘that’.
- What's interesting about it is that it's a fused relative construction with human denotation, headed by the relative pronoun lexeme who.
- A contrast of personal and non-personal is also found with the relative pronouns who/whom versus which.
1. 2.1 (of a clause) attached to an antecedent by a relative word.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In addition, accusative case on who does not typically survive when the word is shunted to the beginning of an interrogative or relative clause.
  A group of students in an English as a second language program served as subjects for special instruction in relative clause formation.
  Sentences in which the grammatical role of a noun phrase is the same in the main clause and the relative clause seem to be easier to process.
  There are two uncontroversial semantically-relevant distinctions between that and which in relative clauses in standard English.
  Well, toward the end of the third clause within this tripartite relative clause we find the following sequence of words.
3Music
(of major and minor keys) having the same key signature.
〔乐〕（大小调）调号相同的
Example sentencesExamples
- The key of the second group is usually the dominant for movements in the major and the relative major for movements in the minor, though other keys may be used.
- This piece will give the teacher a chance to review parallel and relative major/minor keys along with primary chord progressions.
- Mrs. O'Keefe will be cheesed off if I have to tell her that I didn't get my homework on relative minors done.
- The premise is that the major key always prevails and all minor keys should be sung in terms of the relative major.
- To find the relative minor of a particular key go down a minor third from the tonic of the major key.
4(of a service rank) corresponding in grade to another in a different service.
（与不同军种的军阶）相应（或对应）的
Example sentencesExamples
- I believe that nurses should have relative military rank.
- In all of the above cases the question of relative rank was irrelevant to the question of a legal marriage, but both parties did admit a disparity.
- The war prompted the navy to assign relative rank to nurses on 1 July 1942.
- The change was likely made to avoid confusion over relative rank in NATO forces.

noun ˈrɛlətɪvˈrɛlədɪv

1A person connected by blood or marriage.
血亲；姻亲；亲属
much of my time is spent visiting relatives
我把很多时间用来看望亲戚。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Dutch make a distinction between relatives by marriage and relatives by blood.
- It is also common for relatives to be told even when the patients themselves do not know.
- Among some groups it is common to greet close relatives not seen for a long time with a bear hug.
- But loans have to be repaid, even to relatives, and this is a common cause of family feuding and murder.
- It is important to talk with your relatives about illnesses that are common in your family.
- IT is very common to hear of our relatives and friends having high cholesterol or high lipids detected by a blood profile test.
- He is mourned by his sister, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
- Bulgarians count as kin relatives by blood and marriage on both the male and female sides.
- Last month, we admitted a woman with serious bleeding in early pregnancy and no relatives who would give blood.
- What motivates him is the smile on the faces of patients and their relatives when blood is made available in time.
- Current plant workers are ineligible for membership, but their relatives are not.
- There is plenty of visiting among relatives and many special meals with symbolic foods shared by family members.
- Four patients in our study had relatives with renal failure of unknown origin.
- Since coeliac disease runs in families, relatives can have a blood test to check for antibodies.
- He is survived by his nephews, nieces, relatives and family circle.
- There are no legal restrictions on who can marry except for marriages between close relatives.
- He is sadly missed by his family, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends.
- The extended family is highly valued, and it is common for various relatives and generations to live under the same roof.
- Germany has been the Schultzes' travel destination several times to connect with their relatives.
- Noel is survived by his wife and family, brothers, nephews, nieces, relatives, friends and neighbours.
Synonyms
relation, member of someone's/the family, one's (own) flesh and blood, next of kin
formal kinsman, kinswoman
(relatives), family, kin, kith and kin, kindred
informal folks
formal kinsfolk
dated people
1. 1.1 A species related to another by common origin.
  亲缘动物；亲缘植物
  the plant is a relative of ivy
  这种植物是常春藤的亲缘植物。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The chimp is the closest living relative of the human species; 97 percent of the DNA in chimps and humans is identical.
  The unnamed new species of fish is a smaller relative of the candiru, which is well known in the Amazon as a danger to people who go into the water.
  The effects of the fungus on other plant species, and particularly on wild relatives of the targeted crops, are completely unknown.
  Tequila is not made from cactus, but from the agave plant, a relative of the aloe.
  If pollen from an herbicide-resistant plant gets carried by the wind, it could pollinate a weed that's a relative of the plant.
  A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed that the disease is a mutant relative of the common cold.
  It is a larger relative of the common wild plant goat's beard, T. pratensis.
  Although the new species is not a crop pest, some of its relatives are.
  Distinctiveness can be interpreted as the ‘genetic’ difference between a species and its closest relative.
  The Sacramento perch was another native species similar to eastern relatives.
2Grammar
A relative pronoun, determiner, or adverb.
〔语法〕关系代词；关系限定词；关系副词
Example sentencesExamples
- In the following pair, the first uses it as an interrogative content clause and the second uses it as a fused relative.
- An operator (like always) within a relative clause does not like to take wider scope than operators outside the relative.
- If there is ambiguity or unclarity with relative which, the same ambiguity or unclarity exists with relative who (m).
- Occurrences of restrictive relative which are all over the place.
3Philosophy
A term or concept which is dependent on something else.
〔哲学〕关系项
Example sentencesExamples
- If you find this thought rather alien, remember that to most of Hegel's audience it would have sounded quite familiar; it is a close relative of something they had been brought up to accept.
- With Augustus de Morgan, Peirce is one of the founders of the logic of relatives.
- This ‘causal maxim’ is a close relative of the Uniformity Principle, if we think, as Hume and Kant both do, that an event's being caused entails its falling under a law.
- The logic of relatives, which he was the first to investigate extensively, will eventually be recognized as a part of logic.
- Stuart Mill came very near to the view which the logic of relatives forces us to take.

Phrases

relative to

1In comparison with.
与…相比
the figures suggest that girls are underachieving relative to boys
统计数字表明女生的学习成绩不如男生。
Example sentencesExamples
- This property comes about because the visual system makes comparisons relative to the putative axis, implying additional processing.
- All three groups showed impaired performance on the task relative to comparison groups.
- In both cases, participant group youth experience a decrease in use relative to comparison youth of the same gender.
- Rather than comparing a behavior or therapy characteristic to a norm, it is compared for its salience relative to the other items.
- This means that furniture size should be relative to the appropriate space and free of bold patterns.
- Try to get yourself comfortable with their appropriateness, relative to the practical lifespan of the assets being depreciated.
- Participating females reported gradual but lasting reductions in their substance use relative to comparison females.
- This measures the comparative advantage of coal relative to other sectors as a percentage of the cost of inputs.
- The data suggested a significant increase in oxygen demand when comparing the overhead exercise relative to the chest exercise.
- Underfunding in nursing and allied health professions is relative to that in comparable professions and to the size of their workforce.
Synonyms
proportionate, proportional, in proportion, commensurate, corresponding, dependent on, based on
1. 1.1In terms of a connection to.
  从与…的关系（这一角度）出发，联系…（来考虑…）
  we must consider the location of the hospital relative to its catchment area
  我们必须从就医受托区这一角度出发考虑医院的选址。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Recipes for gunpowder, relative to the proportions in the mixture of its three components, varied over the centuries of its use.
  Another priority is the whole area of fixtures, relative to the imbalance between club and county - and pressures on inter-county players.
  This should be done in terms of the company's objectives and its positioning relative to the competition.
  Seven focus on pollution and prevention issues and three on wider concerns relative to corporate sustainability.
  You'll also be able to judge how far away or close an enemy is from your position based on the volume of the gunfire and explosions relative to your position.
  How one explains a given feature in relation to one sort of consciousness may not correspond with what is needed to explain it relative to another.
  The sharpest distinction concerns the standing of the self relative to the group.
  Yet I am continually puzzled as to how other clubs in the First Division are continuing to not only survive, but employ quality players relative to this level.
  The combination of abdominal and back muscle contractions varies according to the position of the body relative to gravity.
  The weaponry used also has to be seen in terms relative to the conflict at hand.
  Synonyms
  in proportion to, proportional to, commensurate with, in relation to, relative to, corresponding to, dependent on, based on
2About; concerning.
if you have any queries relative to payment, please contact us
如对付款有疑问，请与我们联系。
Example sentencesExamples
- These data provide additional concerns relative to the growing shortage of faculty.
- Even though this is not relative to warfare of today, the absence of ships means that fairer battles are guaranteed with each person having to build tanks and planes.
- The arguments that many have made, relative to the so-called failure to connect the dots, appear to be specious, at best.
- I know this is relative to what you're talking about tonight.
- It looks like the concern relative to what we talked about last night with some of Rita coming back down doesn't seem to be particularly likely at this point.
- We've talked to the other office personnel and at this time, we can't connect any case relative to his disappearance.
- In the last few years, theoretical concerns relative to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease caused a similar donor loss.
- He recalls a conversation with him in May, 2001 relative to his concerns about providing for the plaintiff.
- So no, I don't think we have any concerns relative to that.
- Last weekend, following the match awards ceremony, a press briefing was held to update the public on matters relative to World Cup 2007.

Derivatives

relatival

adjective rɛləˈtʌɪv(ə)lˌrɛləˈtaɪv(ə)l

Grammar

another term for relative (sense 2 of the adjective)
Celtic has a relatival form of the verb, a feature which may indicate some non-Indo-European influence.
The lenition of the relatival form was generalized.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French relatif, -ive, from late Latin relativus 'having reference or relation' (see relate).

Definition of relative in US English:

relative

adjectiveˈrelədivˈrɛlədɪv

1Considered in relation or in proportion to something else.
相关的；比较的，互比的
the relative effectiveness of the various mechanisms is not known
无人知道各种机制的互比效力。
Example sentencesExamples
- These proportions are relative only to one another and do not in any way represent the whole plant diet.
- Most plants contain several pigments, whose relative proportions may vary considerably, producing colours which differ noticeably from each other.
- This caused us to examine the relative proportions of myosin and actin.
- No mention was made as to the relative proportion of male versus female students at the two universities.
- The driving force causing these alterations seems to be the increase in relative proportion of type III collagen.
- Finally, decide on the relative proportion each Web page element has to the overall page.
- Many complementary and alternative therapies are perceived to be safe and are used by many pregnant women, but little is known about their relative effectiveness.
- With this procedure, we assume that the relative proportions of the trunk and legs are the same in males and females.
- As a first step in cost-effectiveness analyses, there must be evidence regarding the relative effectiveness of the treatment options being considered.
- However for the sake of representing gender in the society it might have been fruitful to state at the outset of the book more about the relative proportions of female cases out of all trials.
- There were issues around the relative effectiveness of parliamentary agitation and the morality of open rebellion, if it were almost certainly doomed to failure.
- Nonetheless, the relative proportions of each mineral in the ore and airborne dust are not known.
- In much of the early work (and a good deal of the later), the relative proportions of the collaged source material were left largely unchanged.
- One recipe gave relative proportions of grape juice, apple juice, cider vinegar and Certo.
- It is therefore an unfortunate fact that little research has been done into the relative cost - effectiveness of psychological treatments.
- However, relative cost effectiveness is considered the most important criterion.
- There, the estimated drop in the relative proportion of high sensation seekers using marijuana was 26.7 percent.
- The last 20 years have seen a change in the relative efficiency and effectiveness of multilateral and bilateral aid.
- Of the two the Byzantine was nearer to the classical tradition, for it broadly recognized the articulation of the limbs and their relative proportions in nature.
- To identify effective interventions and their relative effectiveness in preventing such falls, we conducted a meta-analysis of relevant randomised controlled trials.
Synonyms
comparative, respective, comparable, correlative, parallel, corresponding, reciprocal
1. 1.1 Existing or possessing a specified characteristic only in comparison to something else; not absolute.
  相对（性）的
  she went down the steps into the relative darkness of the dining room
  她走下台阶，步入相比之下显得黑暗的餐厅。
  the companies are relative newcomers to computers
  相对地说，这些公司在电脑行业里还是新手。
  Example sentencesExamples
  My results therefore seem to support the idea that absolute deprivation rather than relative deprivation is important for influencing mortality.
  The distinction between absolute and relative gaps becomes important when comparisons are made over time.
  Safety and risk are always relative, never absolute.
  These boutique funds tend to be more flexible in their investments, searching for absolute, not relative, return.
  Young mothers struggle alone to bring up a growing proportion of children in relative poverty and more and more old people live out their days in uncared-for solitude.
  Of course, that's in relative risk, not absolute risk.
  The real flaw in his policy was its confusion of relative power with absolute power.
  It varies and without going into the details one of the other problems of this paper is it uses absolute benefits rather than relative benefits.
  All manner of other financial assets, especially the more exotic ones, have reached new highs in price and lows in absolute or relative yield in recent weeks.
  The rotation moment must therefore be resisted by the musculoskeletal stiffness and brace in proportion to their relative stiffness.
  Moreover, the absolute and relative fortunes of individual businesses are endlessly changing.
  Importantly, there were greater absolute and relative benefits in the patients who had resistant symptoms and more severe impairment of left ventricular systolic function.
  The upsurge in art prices in the last thirty years has changed both absolute and relative valuations, and may also have changed career age/value profiles.
  For example, since the supply of natural scenery is fixed it is relative rather than absolute wealth and income that counts.
  Whenever possible, use absolute numbers - not relative risks.
  We computed the absolute and relative risks to evaluate the impact of the time of birth on the risk of infant and early neonatal mortality and early neonatal mortality related to asphyxia.
  Zinc-responsive dermatosis is an uncommon disease of dogs resulting from either an absolute or relative deficiency in zinc.
  For understanding disease causation and to describe the impact of risk factors for disease, the traditional epidemiological measures are absolute and relative risk.
  Competitive advantage may more often be relative rather than absolute.
  With its generous proportions and relative distance from the main accommodation, this area lends itself for use as a home office or teenager's den.
  Synonyms
  moderate, reasonable, a fair degree of, considerable, some
2Grammar
Denoting a pronoun, determiner, or adverb that refers to an expressed or implied antecedent and attaches a subordinate clause to it, e.g. which, who.
〔语法〕（代词、限定词或副词）关系的；（从句）由关系词引导的
Example sentencesExamples
- A contrast of personal and non-personal is also found with the relative pronouns who/whom versus which.
- The other personal relative pronoun, who, doesn't seem to be affected nearly as much.
- Both have missed out the relative pronoun ‘that’.
- What's interesting about it is that it's a fused relative construction with human denotation, headed by the relative pronoun lexeme who.
- Secondly, the relative pronoun has an antecedent in the poem, albeit divided from it by a colon.
1. 2.1 (of a clause) attached to an antecedent by a relative word.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In addition, accusative case on who does not typically survive when the word is shunted to the beginning of an interrogative or relative clause.
  There are two uncontroversial semantically-relevant distinctions between that and which in relative clauses in standard English.
  A group of students in an English as a second language program served as subjects for special instruction in relative clause formation.
  Well, toward the end of the third clause within this tripartite relative clause we find the following sequence of words.
  Sentences in which the grammatical role of a noun phrase is the same in the main clause and the relative clause seem to be easier to process.
3Music
(of major and minor keys) having the same key signature.
〔乐〕（大小调）调号相同的
Example sentencesExamples
- Mrs. O'Keefe will be cheesed off if I have to tell her that I didn't get my homework on relative minors done.
- This piece will give the teacher a chance to review parallel and relative major/minor keys along with primary chord progressions.
- The premise is that the major key always prevails and all minor keys should be sung in terms of the relative major.
- To find the relative minor of a particular key go down a minor third from the tonic of the major key.
- The key of the second group is usually the dominant for movements in the major and the relative major for movements in the minor, though other keys may be used.
4(of a service rank) corresponding in grade to another in a different service.
（与不同军种的军阶）相应（或对应）的
Example sentencesExamples
- The war prompted the navy to assign relative rank to nurses on 1 July 1942.
- In all of the above cases the question of relative rank was irrelevant to the question of a legal marriage, but both parties did admit a disparity.
- The change was likely made to avoid confusion over relative rank in NATO forces.
- I believe that nurses should have relative military rank.

nounˈrelədivˈrɛlədɪv

1A person connected by blood or marriage.
血亲；姻亲；亲属
much of my time is spent visiting relatives
我把很多时间用来看望亲戚。
Example sentencesExamples
- IT is very common to hear of our relatives and friends having high cholesterol or high lipids detected by a blood profile test.
- Last month, we admitted a woman with serious bleeding in early pregnancy and no relatives who would give blood.
- Bulgarians count as kin relatives by blood and marriage on both the male and female sides.
- The Dutch make a distinction between relatives by marriage and relatives by blood.
- There is plenty of visiting among relatives and many special meals with symbolic foods shared by family members.
- He is sadly missed by his family, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends.
- It is also common for relatives to be told even when the patients themselves do not know.
- Noel is survived by his wife and family, brothers, nephews, nieces, relatives, friends and neighbours.
- He is mourned by his sister, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
- Current plant workers are ineligible for membership, but their relatives are not.
- But loans have to be repaid, even to relatives, and this is a common cause of family feuding and murder.
- Since coeliac disease runs in families, relatives can have a blood test to check for antibodies.
- Among some groups it is common to greet close relatives not seen for a long time with a bear hug.
- There are no legal restrictions on who can marry except for marriages between close relatives.
- The extended family is highly valued, and it is common for various relatives and generations to live under the same roof.
- Four patients in our study had relatives with renal failure of unknown origin.
- He is survived by his nephews, nieces, relatives and family circle.
- Germany has been the Schultzes' travel destination several times to connect with their relatives.
- It is important to talk with your relatives about illnesses that are common in your family.
- What motivates him is the smile on the faces of patients and their relatives when blood is made available in time.
Synonyms
relation, member of someone's family, member of the family, one's flesh and blood, one's own flesh and blood, next of kin
1. 1.1 A species related to another by common origin.
  亲缘动物；亲缘植物
  the plant is a relative of ivy
  这种植物是常春藤的亲缘植物。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although the new species is not a crop pest, some of its relatives are.
  If pollen from an herbicide-resistant plant gets carried by the wind, it could pollinate a weed that's a relative of the plant.
  It is a larger relative of the common wild plant goat's beard, T. pratensis.
  Distinctiveness can be interpreted as the ‘genetic’ difference between a species and its closest relative.
  The Sacramento perch was another native species similar to eastern relatives.
  The unnamed new species of fish is a smaller relative of the candiru, which is well known in the Amazon as a danger to people who go into the water.
  The effects of the fungus on other plant species, and particularly on wild relatives of the targeted crops, are completely unknown.
  A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed that the disease is a mutant relative of the common cold.
  Tequila is not made from cactus, but from the agave plant, a relative of the aloe.
  The chimp is the closest living relative of the human species; 97 percent of the DNA in chimps and humans is identical.
2Grammar
A relative pronoun, determiner, or adverb.
〔语法〕关系代词；关系限定词；关系副词
Example sentencesExamples
- Occurrences of restrictive relative which are all over the place.
- In the following pair, the first uses it as an interrogative content clause and the second uses it as a fused relative.
- If there is ambiguity or unclarity with relative which, the same ambiguity or unclarity exists with relative who (m).
- An operator (like always) within a relative clause does not like to take wider scope than operators outside the relative.
3Philosophy
A term, thing, or concept that is dependent on something else.
〔哲学〕关系项
Example sentencesExamples
- The logic of relatives, which he was the first to investigate extensively, will eventually be recognized as a part of logic.
- If you find this thought rather alien, remember that to most of Hegel's audience it would have sounded quite familiar; it is a close relative of something they had been brought up to accept.
- Stuart Mill came very near to the view which the logic of relatives forces us to take.
- This ‘causal maxim’ is a close relative of the Uniformity Principle, if we think, as Hume and Kant both do, that an event's being caused entails its falling under a law.
- With Augustus de Morgan, Peirce is one of the founders of the logic of relatives.

Phrases

relative to

1In comparison with.
与…相比
the figures suggest that girls are underachieving relative to boys
统计数字表明女生的学习成绩不如男生。
Example sentencesExamples
- This property comes about because the visual system makes comparisons relative to the putative axis, implying additional processing.
- Try to get yourself comfortable with their appropriateness, relative to the practical lifespan of the assets being depreciated.
- Participating females reported gradual but lasting reductions in their substance use relative to comparison females.
- This means that furniture size should be relative to the appropriate space and free of bold patterns.
- All three groups showed impaired performance on the task relative to comparison groups.
- This measures the comparative advantage of coal relative to other sectors as a percentage of the cost of inputs.
- The data suggested a significant increase in oxygen demand when comparing the overhead exercise relative to the chest exercise.
- Rather than comparing a behavior or therapy characteristic to a norm, it is compared for its salience relative to the other items.
- Underfunding in nursing and allied health professions is relative to that in comparable professions and to the size of their workforce.
- In both cases, participant group youth experience a decrease in use relative to comparison youth of the same gender.
Synonyms
proportionate, proportional, in proportion, commensurate, corresponding, dependent on, based on
1. 1.1In terms of a connection to.
  从与…的关系（这一角度）出发，联系…（来考虑…）
  some stars appear to change their position relative to each other
  Example sentencesExamples
  How one explains a given feature in relation to one sort of consciousness may not correspond with what is needed to explain it relative to another.
  This should be done in terms of the company's objectives and its positioning relative to the competition.
  Yet I am continually puzzled as to how other clubs in the First Division are continuing to not only survive, but employ quality players relative to this level.
  The weaponry used also has to be seen in terms relative to the conflict at hand.
  Recipes for gunpowder, relative to the proportions in the mixture of its three components, varied over the centuries of its use.
  Seven focus on pollution and prevention issues and three on wider concerns relative to corporate sustainability.
  The combination of abdominal and back muscle contractions varies according to the position of the body relative to gravity.
  You'll also be able to judge how far away or close an enemy is from your position based on the volume of the gunfire and explosions relative to your position.
  The sharpest distinction concerns the standing of the self relative to the group.
  Another priority is the whole area of fixtures, relative to the imbalance between club and county - and pressures on inter-county players.
  Synonyms
  in proportion to, proportional to, commensurate with, in relation to, relative to, corresponding to, dependent on, based on
2In connection with; concerning.
关于，涉及
if you have any questions relative to payment, please contact us
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Example sentencesExamples
- It looks like the concern relative to what we talked about last night with some of Rita coming back down doesn't seem to be particularly likely at this point.
- The arguments that many have made, relative to the so-called failure to connect the dots, appear to be specious, at best.
- In the last few years, theoretical concerns relative to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease caused a similar donor loss.
- These data provide additional concerns relative to the growing shortage of faculty.
- We've talked to the other office personnel and at this time, we can't connect any case relative to his disappearance.
- Even though this is not relative to warfare of today, the absence of ships means that fairer battles are guaranteed with each person having to build tanks and planes.
- He recalls a conversation with him in May, 2001 relative to his concerns about providing for the plaintiff.
- So no, I don't think we have any concerns relative to that.
- Last weekend, following the match awards ceremony, a press briefing was held to update the public on matters relative to World Cup 2007.
- I know this is relative to what you're talking about tonight.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French relatif, -ive, from late Latin relativus ‘having reference or relation’ (see relate).

单词	relative
释义	Definition of relative in English: relative adjective ˈrɛlətɪvˈrɛlədɪv 1Considered in relation or in proportion to something else. 相关的；比较的，互比的 the relative effectiveness of the various mechanisms is not known 无人知道各种机制的互比效力。 Example sentencesExamples There, the estimated drop in the relative proportion of high sensation seekers using marijuana was 26.7 percent. Finally, decide on the relative proportion each Web page element has to the overall page. Many complementary and alternative therapies are perceived to be safe and are used by many pregnant women, but little is known about their relative effectiveness. However for the sake of representing gender in the society it might have been fruitful to state at the outset of the book more about the relative proportions of female cases out of all trials. The driving force causing these alterations seems to be the increase in relative proportion of type III collagen. However, relative cost effectiveness is considered the most important criterion. Nonetheless, the relative proportions of each mineral in the ore and airborne dust are not known. With this procedure, we assume that the relative proportions of the trunk and legs are the same in males and females. Of the two the Byzantine was nearer to the classical tradition, for it broadly recognized the articulation of the limbs and their relative proportions in nature. To identify effective interventions and their relative effectiveness in preventing such falls, we conducted a meta-analysis of relevant randomised controlled trials. One recipe gave relative proportions of grape juice, apple juice, cider vinegar and Certo. Most plants contain several pigments, whose relative proportions may vary considerably, producing colours which differ noticeably from each other. There were issues around the relative effectiveness of parliamentary agitation and the morality of open rebellion, if it were almost certainly doomed to failure. As a first step in cost-effectiveness analyses, there must be evidence regarding the relative effectiveness of the treatment options being considered. No mention was made as to the relative proportion of male versus female students at the two universities. The last 20 years have seen a change in the relative efficiency and effectiveness of multilateral and bilateral aid. This caused us to examine the relative proportions of myosin and actin. These proportions are relative only to one another and do not in any way represent the whole plant diet. In much of the early work (and a good deal of the later), the relative proportions of the collaged source material were left largely unchanged. It is therefore an unfortunate fact that little research has been done into the relative cost - effectiveness of psychological treatments. Synonyms comparative, respective, comparable, correlative, parallel, corresponding, reciprocal 1.1 Existing or possessing a specified characteristic only in comparison to something else; not absolute. 相对（性）的 she went down the steps into the relative darkness of the dining room 她走下台阶，步入相比之下显得黑暗的餐厅。 the firms are relative newcomers to computers 相对地说，这些公司在电脑行业里还是新手。 Example sentencesExamples For understanding disease causation and to describe the impact of risk factors for disease, the traditional epidemiological measures are absolute and relative risk. Whenever possible, use absolute numbers - not relative risks. It varies and without going into the details one of the other problems of this paper is it uses absolute benefits rather than relative benefits. Zinc-responsive dermatosis is an uncommon disease of dogs resulting from either an absolute or relative deficiency in zinc. The rotation moment must therefore be resisted by the musculoskeletal stiffness and brace in proportion to their relative stiffness. Importantly, there were greater absolute and relative benefits in the patients who had resistant symptoms and more severe impairment of left ventricular systolic function. The distinction between absolute and relative gaps becomes important when comparisons are made over time. Safety and risk are always relative, never absolute. With its generous proportions and relative distance from the main accommodation, this area lends itself for use as a home office or teenager's den. We computed the absolute and relative risks to evaluate the impact of the time of birth on the risk of infant and early neonatal mortality and early neonatal mortality related to asphyxia. Moreover, the absolute and relative fortunes of individual businesses are endlessly changing. Competitive advantage may more often be relative rather than absolute. Of course, that's in relative risk, not absolute risk. All manner of other financial assets, especially the more exotic ones, have reached new highs in price and lows in absolute or relative yield in recent weeks. The upsurge in art prices in the last thirty years has changed both absolute and relative valuations, and may also have changed career age/value profiles. These boutique funds tend to be more flexible in their investments, searching for absolute, not relative, return. The real flaw in his policy was its confusion of relative power with absolute power. For example, since the supply of natural scenery is fixed it is relative rather than absolute wealth and income that counts. My results therefore seem to support the idea that absolute deprivation rather than relative deprivation is important for influencing mortality. Young mothers struggle alone to bring up a growing proportion of children in relative poverty and more and more old people live out their days in uncared-for solitude. Synonyms moderate, reasonable, a fair degree of, considerable, some comparative, qualified, modified in/by comparison 2Grammar Denoting a pronoun, determiner, or adverb that refers to an expressed or implied antecedent and attaches a subordinate clause to it, e.g. which, who. 〔语法〕（代词、限定词或副词）关系的；（从句）由关系词引导的 Example sentencesExamples The other personal relative pronoun, who, doesn't seem to be affected nearly as much. Secondly, the relative pronoun has an antecedent in the poem, albeit divided from it by a colon. Both have missed out the relative pronoun ‘that’. What's interesting about it is that it's a fused relative construction with human denotation, headed by the relative pronoun lexeme who. A contrast of personal and non-personal is also found with the relative pronouns who/whom versus which. 2.1 (of a clause) attached to an antecedent by a relative word. Example sentencesExamples In addition, accusative case on who does not typically survive when the word is shunted to the beginning of an interrogative or relative clause. A group of students in an English as a second language program served as subjects for special instruction in relative clause formation. Sentences in which the grammatical role of a noun phrase is the same in the main clause and the relative clause seem to be easier to process. There are two uncontroversial semantically-relevant distinctions between that and which in relative clauses in standard English. Well, toward the end of the third clause within this tripartite relative clause we find the following sequence of words. 3Music (of major and minor keys) having the same key signature. 〔乐〕（大小调）调号相同的 Example sentencesExamples The key of the second group is usually the dominant for movements in the major and the relative major for movements in the minor, though other keys may be used. This piece will give the teacher a chance to review parallel and relative major/minor keys along with primary chord progressions. Mrs. O'Keefe will be cheesed off if I have to tell her that I didn't get my homework on relative minors done. The premise is that the major key always prevails and all minor keys should be sung in terms of the relative major. To find the relative minor of a particular key go down a minor third from the tonic of the major key. 4(of a service rank) corresponding in grade to another in a different service. （与不同军种的军阶）相应（或对应）的 Example sentencesExamples I believe that nurses should have relative military rank. In all of the above cases the question of relative rank was irrelevant to the question of a legal marriage, but both parties did admit a disparity. The war prompted the navy to assign relative rank to nurses on 1 July 1942. The change was likely made to avoid confusion over relative rank in NATO forces. noun ˈrɛlətɪvˈrɛlədɪv 1A person connected by blood or marriage. 血亲；姻亲；亲属 much of my time is spent visiting relatives 我把很多时间用来看望亲戚。 Example sentencesExamples The Dutch make a distinction between relatives by marriage and relatives by blood. It is also common for relatives to be told even when the patients themselves do not know. Among some groups it is common to greet close relatives not seen for a long time with a bear hug. But loans have to be repaid, even to relatives, and this is a common cause of family feuding and murder. It is important to talk with your relatives about illnesses that are common in your family. IT is very common to hear of our relatives and friends having high cholesterol or high lipids detected by a blood profile test. He is mourned by his sister, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Bulgarians count as kin relatives by blood and marriage on both the male and female sides. Last month, we admitted a woman with serious bleeding in early pregnancy and no relatives who would give blood. What motivates him is the smile on the faces of patients and their relatives when blood is made available in time. Current plant workers are ineligible for membership, but their relatives are not. There is plenty of visiting among relatives and many special meals with symbolic foods shared by family members. Four patients in our study had relatives with renal failure of unknown origin. Since coeliac disease runs in families, relatives can have a blood test to check for antibodies. He is survived by his nephews, nieces, relatives and family circle. There are no legal restrictions on who can marry except for marriages between close relatives. He is sadly missed by his family, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends. The extended family is highly valued, and it is common for various relatives and generations to live under the same roof. Germany has been the Schultzes' travel destination several times to connect with their relatives. Noel is survived by his wife and family, brothers, nephews, nieces, relatives, friends and neighbours. Synonyms relation, member of someone's/the family, one's (own) flesh and blood, next of kin formal kinsman, kinswoman (relatives), family, kin, kith and kin, kindred informal folks formal kinsfolk dated people 1.1 A species related to another by common origin. 亲缘动物；亲缘植物 the plant is a relative of ivy 这种植物是常春藤的亲缘植物。 Example sentencesExamples The chimp is the closest living relative of the human species; 97 percent of the DNA in chimps and humans is identical. The unnamed new species of fish is a smaller relative of the candiru, which is well known in the Amazon as a danger to people who go into the water. The effects of the fungus on other plant species, and particularly on wild relatives of the targeted crops, are completely unknown. Tequila is not made from cactus, but from the agave plant, a relative of the aloe. If pollen from an herbicide-resistant plant gets carried by the wind, it could pollinate a weed that's a relative of the plant. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed that the disease is a mutant relative of the common cold. It is a larger relative of the common wild plant goat's beard, T. pratensis. Although the new species is not a crop pest, some of its relatives are. Distinctiveness can be interpreted as the ‘genetic’ difference between a species and its closest relative. The Sacramento perch was another native species similar to eastern relatives. 2Grammar A relative pronoun, determiner, or adverb. 〔语法〕关系代词；关系限定词；关系副词 Example sentencesExamples In the following pair, the first uses it as an interrogative content clause and the second uses it as a fused relative. An operator (like always) within a relative clause does not like to take wider scope than operators outside the relative. If there is ambiguity or unclarity with relative which, the same ambiguity or unclarity exists with relative who (m). Occurrences of restrictive relative which are all over the place. 3Philosophy A term or concept which is dependent on something else. 〔哲学〕关系项 Example sentencesExamples If you find this thought rather alien, remember that to most of Hegel's audience it would have sounded quite familiar; it is a close relative of something they had been brought up to accept. With Augustus de Morgan, Peirce is one of the founders of the logic of relatives. This ‘causal maxim’ is a close relative of the Uniformity Principle, if we think, as Hume and Kant both do, that an event's being caused entails its falling under a law. The logic of relatives, which he was the first to investigate extensively, will eventually be recognized as a part of logic. Stuart Mill came very near to the view which the logic of relatives forces us to take. Phrases relative to 1In comparison with. 与…相比 the figures suggest that girls are underachieving relative to boys 统计数字表明女生的学习成绩不如男生。 Example sentencesExamples This property comes about because the visual system makes comparisons relative to the putative axis, implying additional processing. All three groups showed impaired performance on the task relative to comparison groups. In both cases, participant group youth experience a decrease in use relative to comparison youth of the same gender. Rather than comparing a behavior or therapy characteristic to a norm, it is compared for its salience relative to the other items. This means that furniture size should be relative to the appropriate space and free of bold patterns. Try to get yourself comfortable with their appropriateness, relative to the practical lifespan of the assets being depreciated. Participating females reported gradual but lasting reductions in their substance use relative to comparison females. This measures the comparative advantage of coal relative to other sectors as a percentage of the cost of inputs. The data suggested a significant increase in oxygen demand when comparing the overhead exercise relative to the chest exercise. Underfunding in nursing and allied health professions is relative to that in comparable professions and to the size of their workforce. Synonyms proportionate, proportional, in proportion, commensurate, corresponding, dependent on, based on 1.1In terms of a connection to. 从与…的关系（这一角度）出发，联系…（来考虑…） we must consider the location of the hospital relative to its catchment area 我们必须从就医受托区这一角度出发考虑医院的选址。 Example sentencesExamples Recipes for gunpowder, relative to the proportions in the mixture of its three components, varied over the centuries of its use. Another priority is the whole area of fixtures, relative to the imbalance between club and county - and pressures on inter-county players. This should be done in terms of the company's objectives and its positioning relative to the competition. Seven focus on pollution and prevention issues and three on wider concerns relative to corporate sustainability. You'll also be able to judge how far away or close an enemy is from your position based on the volume of the gunfire and explosions relative to your position. How one explains a given feature in relation to one sort of consciousness may not correspond with what is needed to explain it relative to another. The sharpest distinction concerns the standing of the self relative to the group. Yet I am continually puzzled as to how other clubs in the First Division are continuing to not only survive, but employ quality players relative to this level. The combination of abdominal and back muscle contractions varies according to the position of the body relative to gravity. The weaponry used also has to be seen in terms relative to the conflict at hand. Synonyms in proportion to, proportional to, commensurate with, in relation to, relative to, corresponding to, dependent on, based on 2About; concerning. if you have any queries relative to payment, please contact us 如对付款有疑问，请与我们联系。 Example sentencesExamples These data provide additional concerns relative to the growing shortage of faculty. Even though this is not relative to warfare of today, the absence of ships means that fairer battles are guaranteed with each person having to build tanks and planes. The arguments that many have made, relative to the so-called failure to connect the dots, appear to be specious, at best. I know this is relative to what you're talking about tonight. It looks like the concern relative to what we talked about last night with some of Rita coming back down doesn't seem to be particularly likely at this point. We've talked to the other office personnel and at this time, we can't connect any case relative to his disappearance. In the last few years, theoretical concerns relative to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease caused a similar donor loss. He recalls a conversation with him in May, 2001 relative to his concerns about providing for the plaintiff. So no, I don't think we have any concerns relative to that. Last weekend, following the match awards ceremony, a press briefing was held to update the public on matters relative to World Cup 2007. Derivatives relatival adjective rɛləˈtʌɪv(ə)lˌrɛləˈtaɪv(ə)l Grammar another term for relative (sense 2 of the adjective) Celtic has a relatival form of the verb, a feature which may indicate some non-Indo-European influence. The lenition of the relatival form was generalized. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French relatif, -ive, from late Latin relativus 'having reference or relation' (see relate). adj.1 phr. Definition of relative in US English: relative adjectiveˈrelədivˈrɛlədɪv 1Considered in relation or in proportion to something else. 相关的；比较的，互比的 the relative effectiveness of the various mechanisms is not known 无人知道各种机制的互比效力。 Example sentencesExamples These proportions are relative only to one another and do not in any way represent the whole plant diet. Most plants contain several pigments, whose relative proportions may vary considerably, producing colours which differ noticeably from each other. This caused us to examine the relative proportions of myosin and actin. No mention was made as to the relative proportion of male versus female students at the two universities. The driving force causing these alterations seems to be the increase in relative proportion of type III collagen. Finally, decide on the relative proportion each Web page element has to the overall page. Many complementary and alternative therapies are perceived to be safe and are used by many pregnant women, but little is known about their relative effectiveness. With this procedure, we assume that the relative proportions of the trunk and legs are the same in males and females. As a first step in cost-effectiveness analyses, there must be evidence regarding the relative effectiveness of the treatment options being considered. However for the sake of representing gender in the society it might have been fruitful to state at the outset of the book more about the relative proportions of female cases out of all trials. There were issues around the relative effectiveness of parliamentary agitation and the morality of open rebellion, if it were almost certainly doomed to failure. Nonetheless, the relative proportions of each mineral in the ore and airborne dust are not known. In much of the early work (and a good deal of the later), the relative proportions of the collaged source material were left largely unchanged. One recipe gave relative proportions of grape juice, apple juice, cider vinegar and Certo. It is therefore an unfortunate fact that little research has been done into the relative cost - effectiveness of psychological treatments. However, relative cost effectiveness is considered the most important criterion. There, the estimated drop in the relative proportion of high sensation seekers using marijuana was 26.7 percent. The last 20 years have seen a change in the relative efficiency and effectiveness of multilateral and bilateral aid. Of the two the Byzantine was nearer to the classical tradition, for it broadly recognized the articulation of the limbs and their relative proportions in nature. To identify effective interventions and their relative effectiveness in preventing such falls, we conducted a meta-analysis of relevant randomised controlled trials. Synonyms comparative, respective, comparable, correlative, parallel, corresponding, reciprocal 1.1 Existing or possessing a specified characteristic only in comparison to something else; not absolute. 相对（性）的 she went down the steps into the relative darkness of the dining room 她走下台阶，步入相比之下显得黑暗的餐厅。 the companies are relative newcomers to computers 相对地说，这些公司在电脑行业里还是新手。 Example sentencesExamples My results therefore seem to support the idea that absolute deprivation rather than relative deprivation is important for influencing mortality. The distinction between absolute and relative gaps becomes important when comparisons are made over time. Safety and risk are always relative, never absolute. These boutique funds tend to be more flexible in their investments, searching for absolute, not relative, return. Young mothers struggle alone to bring up a growing proportion of children in relative poverty and more and more old people live out their days in uncared-for solitude. Of course, that's in relative risk, not absolute risk. The real flaw in his policy was its confusion of relative power with absolute power. It varies and without going into the details one of the other problems of this paper is it uses absolute benefits rather than relative benefits. All manner of other financial assets, especially the more exotic ones, have reached new highs in price and lows in absolute or relative yield in recent weeks. The rotation moment must therefore be resisted by the musculoskeletal stiffness and brace in proportion to their relative stiffness. Moreover, the absolute and relative fortunes of individual businesses are endlessly changing. Importantly, there were greater absolute and relative benefits in the patients who had resistant symptoms and more severe impairment of left ventricular systolic function. The upsurge in art prices in the last thirty years has changed both absolute and relative valuations, and may also have changed career age/value profiles. For example, since the supply of natural scenery is fixed it is relative rather than absolute wealth and income that counts. Whenever possible, use absolute numbers - not relative risks. We computed the absolute and relative risks to evaluate the impact of the time of birth on the risk of infant and early neonatal mortality and early neonatal mortality related to asphyxia. Zinc-responsive dermatosis is an uncommon disease of dogs resulting from either an absolute or relative deficiency in zinc. For understanding disease causation and to describe the impact of risk factors for disease, the traditional epidemiological measures are absolute and relative risk. Competitive advantage may more often be relative rather than absolute. With its generous proportions and relative distance from the main accommodation, this area lends itself for use as a home office or teenager's den. Synonyms moderate, reasonable, a fair degree of, considerable, some 2Grammar Denoting a pronoun, determiner, or adverb that refers to an expressed or implied antecedent and attaches a subordinate clause to it, e.g. which, who. 〔语法〕（代词、限定词或副词）关系的；（从句）由关系词引导的 Example sentencesExamples A contrast of personal and non-personal is also found with the relative pronouns who/whom versus which. The other personal relative pronoun, who, doesn't seem to be affected nearly as much. Both have missed out the relative pronoun ‘that’. What's interesting about it is that it's a fused relative construction with human denotation, headed by the relative pronoun lexeme who. Secondly, the relative pronoun has an antecedent in the poem, albeit divided from it by a colon. 2.1 (of a clause) attached to an antecedent by a relative word. Example sentencesExamples In addition, accusative case on who does not typically survive when the word is shunted to the beginning of an interrogative or relative clause. There are two uncontroversial semantically-relevant distinctions between that and which in relative clauses in standard English. A group of students in an English as a second language program served as subjects for special instruction in relative clause formation. Well, toward the end of the third clause within this tripartite relative clause we find the following sequence of words. Sentences in which the grammatical role of a noun phrase is the same in the main clause and the relative clause seem to be easier to process. 3Music (of major and minor keys) having the same key signature. 〔乐〕（大小调）调号相同的 Example sentencesExamples Mrs. O'Keefe will be cheesed off if I have to tell her that I didn't get my homework on relative minors done. This piece will give the teacher a chance to review parallel and relative major/minor keys along with primary chord progressions. The premise is that the major key always prevails and all minor keys should be sung in terms of the relative major. To find the relative minor of a particular key go down a minor third from the tonic of the major key. The key of the second group is usually the dominant for movements in the major and the relative major for movements in the minor, though other keys may be used. 4(of a service rank) corresponding in grade to another in a different service. （与不同军种的军阶）相应（或对应）的 Example sentencesExamples The war prompted the navy to assign relative rank to nurses on 1 July 1942. In all of the above cases the question of relative rank was irrelevant to the question of a legal marriage, but both parties did admit a disparity. The change was likely made to avoid confusion over relative rank in NATO forces. I believe that nurses should have relative military rank. nounˈrelədivˈrɛlədɪv 1A person connected by blood or marriage. 血亲；姻亲；亲属 much of my time is spent visiting relatives 我把很多时间用来看望亲戚。 Example sentencesExamples IT is very common to hear of our relatives and friends having high cholesterol or high lipids detected by a blood profile test. Last month, we admitted a woman with serious bleeding in early pregnancy and no relatives who would give blood. Bulgarians count as kin relatives by blood and marriage on both the male and female sides. The Dutch make a distinction between relatives by marriage and relatives by blood. There is plenty of visiting among relatives and many special meals with symbolic foods shared by family members. He is sadly missed by his family, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends. It is also common for relatives to be told even when the patients themselves do not know. Noel is survived by his wife and family, brothers, nephews, nieces, relatives, friends and neighbours. He is mourned by his sister, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Current plant workers are ineligible for membership, but their relatives are not. But loans have to be repaid, even to relatives, and this is a common cause of family feuding and murder. Since coeliac disease runs in families, relatives can have a blood test to check for antibodies. Among some groups it is common to greet close relatives not seen for a long time with a bear hug. There are no legal restrictions on who can marry except for marriages between close relatives. The extended family is highly valued, and it is common for various relatives and generations to live under the same roof. Four patients in our study had relatives with renal failure of unknown origin. He is survived by his nephews, nieces, relatives and family circle. Germany has been the Schultzes' travel destination several times to connect with their relatives. It is important to talk with your relatives about illnesses that are common in your family. What motivates him is the smile on the faces of patients and their relatives when blood is made available in time. Synonyms relation, member of someone's family, member of the family, one's flesh and blood, one's own flesh and blood, next of kin 1.1 A species related to another by common origin. 亲缘动物；亲缘植物 the plant is a relative of ivy 这种植物是常春藤的亲缘植物。 Example sentencesExamples Although the new species is not a crop pest, some of its relatives are. If pollen from an herbicide-resistant plant gets carried by the wind, it could pollinate a weed that's a relative of the plant. It is a larger relative of the common wild plant goat's beard, T. pratensis. Distinctiveness can be interpreted as the ‘genetic’ difference between a species and its closest relative. The Sacramento perch was another native species similar to eastern relatives. The unnamed new species of fish is a smaller relative of the candiru, which is well known in the Amazon as a danger to people who go into the water. The effects of the fungus on other plant species, and particularly on wild relatives of the targeted crops, are completely unknown. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed that the disease is a mutant relative of the common cold. Tequila is not made from cactus, but from the agave plant, a relative of the aloe. The chimp is the closest living relative of the human species; 97 percent of the DNA in chimps and humans is identical. 2Grammar A relative pronoun, determiner, or adverb. 〔语法〕关系代词；关系限定词；关系副词 Example sentencesExamples Occurrences of restrictive relative which are all over the place. In the following pair, the first uses it as an interrogative content clause and the second uses it as a fused relative. If there is ambiguity or unclarity with relative which, the same ambiguity or unclarity exists with relative who (m). An operator (like always) within a relative clause does not like to take wider scope than operators outside the relative. 3Philosophy A term, thing, or concept that is dependent on something else. 〔哲学〕关系项 Example sentencesExamples The logic of relatives, which he was the first to investigate extensively, will eventually be recognized as a part of logic. If you find this thought rather alien, remember that to most of Hegel's audience it would have sounded quite familiar; it is a close relative of something they had been brought up to accept. Stuart Mill came very near to the view which the logic of relatives forces us to take. This ‘causal maxim’ is a close relative of the Uniformity Principle, if we think, as Hume and Kant both do, that an event's being caused entails its falling under a law. With Augustus de Morgan, Peirce is one of the founders of the logic of relatives. Phrases relative to 1In comparison with. 与…相比 the figures suggest that girls are underachieving relative to boys 统计数字表明女生的学习成绩不如男生。 Example sentencesExamples This property comes about because the visual system makes comparisons relative to the putative axis, implying additional processing. Try to get yourself comfortable with their appropriateness, relative to the practical lifespan of the assets being depreciated. Participating females reported gradual but lasting reductions in their substance use relative to comparison females. This means that furniture size should be relative to the appropriate space and free of bold patterns. All three groups showed impaired performance on the task relative to comparison groups. This measures the comparative advantage of coal relative to other sectors as a percentage of the cost of inputs. The data suggested a significant increase in oxygen demand when comparing the overhead exercise relative to the chest exercise. Rather than comparing a behavior or therapy characteristic to a norm, it is compared for its salience relative to the other items. Underfunding in nursing and allied health professions is relative to that in comparable professions and to the size of their workforce. In both cases, participant group youth experience a decrease in use relative to comparison youth of the same gender. Synonyms proportionate, proportional, in proportion, commensurate, corresponding, dependent on, based on 1.1In terms of a connection to. 从与…的关系（这一角度）出发，联系…（来考虑…） some stars appear to change their position relative to each other Example sentencesExamples How one explains a given feature in relation to one sort of consciousness may not correspond with what is needed to explain it relative to another. This should be done in terms of the company's objectives and its positioning relative to the competition. Yet I am continually puzzled as to how other clubs in the First Division are continuing to not only survive, but employ quality players relative to this level. The weaponry used also has to be seen in terms relative to the conflict at hand. Recipes for gunpowder, relative to the proportions in the mixture of its three components, varied over the centuries of its use. Seven focus on pollution and prevention issues and three on wider concerns relative to corporate sustainability. The combination of abdominal and back muscle contractions varies according to the position of the body relative to gravity. You'll also be able to judge how far away or close an enemy is from your position based on the volume of the gunfire and explosions relative to your position. The sharpest distinction concerns the standing of the self relative to the group. Another priority is the whole area of fixtures, relative to the imbalance between club and county - and pressures on inter-county players. Synonyms in proportion to, proportional to, commensurate with, in relation to, relative to, corresponding to, dependent on, based on 2In connection with; concerning. 关于，涉及 if you have any questions relative to payment, please contact us 如对付款有疑问，请与我们联系。 Example sentencesExamples It looks like the concern relative to what we talked about last night with some of Rita coming back down doesn't seem to be particularly likely at this point. The arguments that many have made, relative to the so-called failure to connect the dots, appear to be specious, at best. In the last few years, theoretical concerns relative to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease caused a similar donor loss. These data provide additional concerns relative to the growing shortage of faculty. We've talked to the other office personnel and at this time, we can't connect any case relative to his disappearance. Even though this is not relative to warfare of today, the absence of ships means that fairer battles are guaranteed with each person having to build tanks and planes. He recalls a conversation with him in May, 2001 relative to his concerns about providing for the plaintiff. So no, I don't think we have any concerns relative to that. Last weekend, following the match awards ceremony, a press briefing was held to update the public on matters relative to World Cup 2007. I know this is relative to what you're talking about tonight. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French relatif, -ive, from late Latin relativus ‘having reference or relation’ (see relate). adj.1 phr.
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