(a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
(a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
(a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
(a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.
(n.) One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.
(n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
(n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
(3) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(4) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(5) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
(6) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
(7) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(8) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(9) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(10) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(11) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(12) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(13) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(14) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(15) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(16) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
(17) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(18) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
(19) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(20) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.
Stepson
Definition:
(n.) A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patrick, his stepson, faced similar racial slurs as officers asked him for the location of illegal guns because, as he recalled an officer saying, “you fuckers are making more money a day than I am”.
(2) Speaking outside court, Tomlinson's stepson Paul King said the not guilty verdict was "a joke".
(3) He is survived by his wife, daughter Gemma, stepson Steven and stepdaughter Rebecca.
(4) Ian Phillips London • When listing the ways the government tries to wriggle out of its obligation to provide a safety net to the unemployed, Zoe Williams might have added a bizarre definition of "immigrant" of which my stepson was recently a victim.
(5) He leaves office with a third wife, a new baby daughter, another stepson and two grandchildren.
(6) Still, he compared Ashtiani's case with that of Teresa Lewis, who was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Virginia for arranging the murder of her husband and stepson.
(7) His loyal wife, Janet died in 1995, and his son also predeceased him; he leaves a stepson and stepdaughter.
(8) Tomlinson's stepson Paul King said: "It's outrageous.
(9) Tomlinson's stepson Paul King said: "I think it's pointless, it hasn't proved anything to us.
(10) Howard, with Iris Murdoch, writes her stepson Martin Amis in his own memoir, Experience , "is the most interesting woman writer of her generation.
(11) Their host was Fombah Teh Sirleaf, the stepson of Liberia’s president and director of the country’s National Security Agency.
(12) Paul King, Tomlinson's stepson, said: "If the officer faces disciplinary charges now, does that mean he could get away with not facing charges for the death of our dad if there is an unlawful killing verdict at the inquest?
(13) There was a castle on its banks and nearby an ornamental fountain, one that spouted not water but lava – the flourish, as I took it, of a middle-aged man who might have started playing this game to communicate with his stepson, but who wound up enjoying himself, finding his ideas irresistible.
(14) I was miles away from Ferguson, Missouri, when I saw a photo of a grieved father with his handmade sign immediately after his stepson, Michael Brown, was killed by now-former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson and his body was left in the street for over four hours on 9 August.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Abraham Chaparro with a photograph of his murdered stepson, Miguel Garcia-Moran, outside his home in Brentwood.
(16) He enjoyed the job and saw it as his ticket out of the Haven House, a shelter where he lives with his wife, Kristen, and stepson.
(17) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
(18) They handcuff you to a bench and one hand is cuffed to a rod on the wall.” He and his stepson were taken to separate windowless cells, handcuffed to the wall once more, and repeatedly encouraged to “help yourself”.
(19) Officers repeatedly using “a stream of insults, racial slurs, including the N-word, and threats” – including “bogus criminal offenses” – if his stepson did not provide intelligence on illegal guns.
(20) My two stepsons are in their 20s and in good jobs but they don't have a chance of buying a house.