RELATED TO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does related to mean? 

• RELATED TO (adjective)
  The adjective RELATED TO has 1 sense:

1. being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics

  Familiarity information: RELATED TO used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATED TO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics

Synonyms:

related; related to

Context example:

related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces

Similar:

affiliated; attached; connected (being joined in close association)

age-related (changing (increasing or decreasing) as an individual's age increases)

bound up (closely or inseparably connected or associated with)

cognate (having the same ancestral language)

cognate; connate (related in nature)

coreferent (related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction)

correlate; correlated; correlative (mutually related)

corresponding (accompanying)

side by side (closely related or associated)

 Context examples 

The love of man and woman, I had always held, was a sublimated something related to spirit, a spiritual bond that linked and drew their souls together.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Information about sunspots that develop before they rotate into view of Earth and Earth-orbiting spacecraft is helpful in predicting space-weather effects of solar emissions related to sunspots.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Tracks Sunspots, NASA)

Of, or related to, the abdomen.

(Abdominal, NCI Thesaurus)

Now they believe the cause is related to genes that control the activity of some brain cells.

(Migraine, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

The reason these materials have not received attention previously is related to their complex atomic arrangements.

(New class of materials could be used to make batteries that charge faster, University of Cambridge)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to an adverse event.

(Adverse Event Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

With Madame Frederic and her husband: she took care of me, but she is nothing related to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A. turicensis is most often related to genital, skin, and urinary tract infections.

(Actinomyces turicensis, NCI Thesaurus)

Comment: Intended to encompass diseases more closely related to human myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative or myeloproliferative diseases than to human myelodysplastic syndromes.

(Mouse Myeloid Proliferation, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Elizabeth related to Jane the next day what had passed between Mr. Wickham and herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)