INTERRELATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interrelate mean? 

• INTERRELATE (verb)
  The verb INTERRELATE has 2 senses:

1. be in a relationship with

2. place into a mutual relationship

  Familiarity information: INTERRELATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERRELATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they interrelate    ... he / she / it interrelates   
Past simple: interrelated   
Past participle: interrelated   
-ing form: interrelating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be in a relationship with

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

interrelate; relate

Context example:

How are these two observations related?

Hypernyms (to "interrelate" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Verb group:

interrelate (place into a mutual relationship)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interrelate"):

predicate (make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition)

tutor (act as a guardian to someone)

tie in (be in connection with something relevant)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

interrelation (mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place into a mutual relationship

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

I cannot interrelate these two events

Hypernyms (to "interrelate" is one way to...):

associate; colligate; connect; link; link up; relate; tie in (make a logical or causal connection)

Verb group:

interrelate; relate (be in a relationship with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

interrelation (mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness)

 Context examples 

A group of independent but interrelated devices working together.

(Device Component System, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of a complex interrelated cellular, molecular and genetic component.

(Immune system, NCI Thesaurus)

The ever evolving mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAP kinase) pathways consist of four major groupings and numerous related proteins which constitute interrelated signal transduction cascades activated by stimuli such as growth factors, stress, cytokines and inflammation.

(MAPKinase Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)