Definition of relative

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Relative (a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun..

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Relative :: Relative (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..
Disseizee :: Disseizee (n.) A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor..
Lady :: Lady (n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
Place :: Place (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis..
Correlativeness :: Correlativeness (n.) Quality of being correlative.
Close :: Close (v. t.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open..
Filiety :: Filiety (n.) The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.
Precisive :: Precisive (a.) Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction..
Scale :: Scale (n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile..
Force :: Force (n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force..
Immigrant :: Immigrant (n.) One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.
Cold :: Cold (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.
Depositor :: Depositor (n.) One who makes a deposit, especially of money in a bank; -- the correlative of depository..
Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact..
Position :: Position (n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position..
Gammer :: Gammer (n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man..
Relative :: Relative (n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman..
Prime :: Prime (a.) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
Tenant :: Tenant (n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2..
Succiduous :: Successor (n.) One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king..
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