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What (who) is RELATIVE - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Relatively; Relative (disambiguation)
Relative
Indicating the relation between two or more things without reference to
absolute value of any one of them. Thus one lamp may be of relatively
double resistance compared to another, but this states nothing of the
resistance in ohms of either lamp.
Relative
·adj Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
II. Relative ·adj Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
III. Relative ·noun A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
IV. Relative ·adj Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
V. Relative ·noun A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".
VI. Relative ·adj 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.
VII. Relative ·noun 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.
relative
(relatives)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your relatives are the members of your family.
Get a relative to look after the children.
= relation
N-COUNT
2.
You use relative to say that something is true to a certain degree, especially when compared with other things of the same kind.
The fighting resumed after a period of relative calm...
= comparative
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
You use relative when you are comparing the quality or size of two things.
They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live...
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
Japanese interest rates rose relative to America's...
PREP-PHRASE
5.
If you say that something is relative, you mean that it needs to be considered and judged in relation to other things.
Fitness is relative; one must always ask 'Fit for what?'...
? absolute
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
6.
If one animal, plant, language, or invention is a relative of another, they have both developed from the same type of animal, plant, language, or invention.
The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
Examples of use of RELATIVE
1. The boy and a sick grandmother bounced from relative to relative each month.
2. Now, he argued, Our economic performance is one of relative improvement rather than relative decline.
3. Relative unknown Ahmadinezhad, a relative unknown to most Iranians, won almost as many votes as Rafsanjani.
4. For example, someone in Khartoum would send a relative credit for minutes to a relative in Port Sudan.
5. Shortly after the abduction, the kidnappers used the soldier‘s cell phone to call the relative, the relative told the military.