relationaladj.n.

Brit.

/rᵻˈleɪʃn̩(ə)l/,

/rᵻˈleɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S.

/rəˈleɪʃ(ə)nəl/,

/riˈleɪʃ(ə)nəl/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: relation n., -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < relation n. + -al suffix¹.

A. adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characterized by human relationships.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective] > of or belonging to human relationship

relationala1657

a1657 C. Croke Fortune's Uncertainty (1667) 86 Those Countrey Gentlemen..whose jealousie seldom admits of hardly their relational Acquaintances to come to their houses.

1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 474 What thy personal and what thy relational needs are?

a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 17 It may fall in the relational part. Relations are the joints of society.

1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 110 One might easily be tempted to take the two nations for relational stems.

1834 J. Brown Lett. Sanctification vi. 319 Be conscientious in the relational duties to God and man.

1893 G. A. Gordon Witness to Immortality in Lit. ii. 73 The mighty relational structure of human society.

1925 Michigan Law Rev. 24 157 The pursuit of a common end by a body of men held together by some relational bond.

1962 C. Smith tr. M. Merleau-Ponty Phenomenol. of Perception (2005) i. v. 143 The patient breaks with relational life within the family circle.

2006 Time 1 May 55/1 Girls have traditionally practiced not so much physical aggression as relational aggression.

2. Relating to or characterized by relation; that relates two or more things; expressing a relationship.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective]

relationala1690

relationary1810

relatival1850

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [adjective] > relating to a relative

relationala1690

relatival1850

relativizing1975

a1690 S. Jeake Compl. Body Arithm. (1701) iv. i. 405 I now come to review them [sc. numbers] in their common Nature, as they are Relational, and uncover their Comparative Elements.

1798 W. Tooke Castéra's Life Catharine II (ed. 2) I. 58 The relational value of the ruble to the money of other countries varies with the course of exchange.

1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. v. 229 The most highly relational feelings are the visual.

1908 W. R. B. Gibson Probl. Logic ii. 30 Formal definition is essentially relational in character, though in some cases the relational reference is more apparent than in others.

1967 Child Devel. 38 841 Preschool children..use the relational terms ‘more’, ‘same’, and ‘less’ when comparing the number, length, and weight of objects.

2006 L. Smolin Trouble with Physics xviii. 317 Relational quantum theories..are based on the idea that quantum mechanics is a description of relationships between subsystems of the universe.

3. Computing. Designating a database structure in which data is stored in relatively simple two-dimensional tables that can be combined in response to queries, using key information that is common to more than one table; relating to or having such a structure; esp. in relational database n. a database structured in this way. Cf. relation n. 2c.

ΚΠ

1970 E. F. Codd in Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery 13 377/2 The relational view (or model) of data described in section 1 appears to be superior in several respects to the graph or network model.

1975 Proc. Internat. Conf. Very Large Data Bases 25 (title) Semantic integrity in a relational database system.

1993 Macworld Dec. 161/1 You could do a relational merge of a database of customer names and addresses with a database of customers' recent purchases to find out how much response you got from an advertisement.

1995 Computing 25 May 39/3 Some vendors and users contend that clever manipulation of a relational database is a less expensive alternative to setting up a multidimensional database.

2002 e-Business Advisor (Nexis) Aug. 9 A runtime framework to map Java objects to relational data sources.

B. n.

†1. In plural. Matters connected with a personal relationship. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1671 T. Hardcastle Let. 20 or 21 July in E. B. Underhill Rec. Church of Christ (1847) 156 I shall waive my needful journey into Yorkshire till I see you a little settled, as preferring the interest of Christ before relationals or personals.

2. Grammar. A word or particle expressing relation between other words, as a preposition or conjunction. Cf. relational word n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [noun] > relative or connective

referent1635

connective1751

subjunctivea1831

link-word1871

relational1895

relation word1909

relator1933

relativizer1941

1895 C. A. McMurry Course Study for Eight Grades 114 The verb is always the principal relational in the sentence.

1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating iv. 62 There are four principal functional classes of lexical symbols: object words, event words, abstracts, and relationals.

1978 Language 54 80 Some English prepositions correspond to Japanese genitive constructions with no plus relationals.

1999 H.-M. Sohn Korean Lang. (2001) vi. 128 Relationals such as particles, suffixes, and auxiliary verbs.

Compounds

relational database n. see A. 3.

relational grammar n. Linguistics a theory of grammar in which clauses are analysed as networks of relationships rather than in terms of phrase structure.

ΚΠ

1974 D. Johnson in Papers 10th Regional Meeting, Chicago Ling. Soc. 269 Postal and Perlmutter are presently developing a theory of relational grammar.

1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 185 Unless something like the ‘multi-attachment’ of relational grammar is utilized, the complement clause must have a gap..which is bound by the nominal in the matrix clause.

relational grammarian n. a practitioner or student of relational grammar.

ΚΠ

1981 Language 57 720 This new book..will make it harder for relational grammarians..to keep on re-inventing the wheel.

2001 M. C. Baker in W. D. Davies & S. Dubinsky Objects & Other Subj. ii. 26 The Relational Grammarians rarely said much about phase structure issues, beyond the basic facts that concerned the embedding of clauses and NPs.

relational operator n. Mathematics, Logic, and Computing a mathematical or logical operator which expresses a comparison between two operands.Common relational operators include the symbols = ‘equal to’, < ‘less than’, and > ‘greater than’.

ΚΠ

1951 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 16 157 For example, / is used both as a statement operator..and as a relational operator.

1979 Personal Computer World Nov. 73/3 Consider a Boolean expression like A = B... The = is known as a relational operator.

2003 S. Oualline Pract. C++ Programming (ed. 2) vi. 76 The operator <= is a relational operator that represents less than or equal to.

relational word n. Grammar a word expressing relation or connection between other words; spec. a preposition or conjunction.

ΚΠ

1830 C. F. Becker Gram. German Lang. Introd. 7 The use of relational words increases in languages in the same proportion as the power of inflection diminishes.

1969 J. Kaminsky Lang. & Ontol. xi. 162 I am not at all sure that even a relational word could not be held to be capable of use outside the context of a sentence.

2004 B. Pérez Becoming Biliterate vi. 138 She used relational words such as despues (after), entonces (and then), en seguida (following), and por ultimo (finally) to introduce most sentences.

Derivatives

relatioˈnality n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun]

yokeOE

relationa1398

respecta1398

report1523

society?1545

habitude1561

conjugation1605

necessitudea1626

attinency1632

dependencea1634

belonginga1648

respectiveness1650

nexure1652

synapsis1655

relative1657

rapport1660

proportion1664

schesis1678

relationship1724

appurtenance1846

relationality1866

interosculation1883

tie-up1927

tie-in1934

1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice iii. iv. 307 The close relationality of it [sc. the law of love] is cross to our humanly selfish habit.

1925 W. P. Montague Ways of Knowing 369 Here is a notion that appears to be all shot through with relationality from the very start, for north presupposes south.

2005 E. Ellsworth Places of Learning ii. 52 This museum creates..a space of radical relationality by putting visitors' selves in relation to history.

reˈlationally adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb]

relationally1850

1850 Theol. & Literary Jrnl. Apr. 543 All doctrinal statements of necessity treat the subjects which they respect relationally.

1923 Jrnl. Philos. 20 520 The average individual..must be able to orient himself relationally with a considerable repertoire of content symbols.

2006 M. H. Goodwin Hidden Life of Girls vii. 216 Teachers described girls as more relationally aggressive than boys, and boys as more overtly aggressive than girls.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	relational
释义	relationaladj.n. Brit. /rᵻˈleɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /rᵻˈleɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /rəˈleɪʃ(ə)nəl/, /riˈleɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: relation n., -al suffix¹. Etymology: < relation n. + -al suffix¹. A. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characterized by human relationships. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective] > of or belonging to human relationship relationala1657 a1657 C. Croke Fortune's Uncertainty (1667) 86 Those Countrey Gentlemen..whose jealousie seldom admits of hardly their relational Acquaintances to come to their houses. 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 474 What thy personal and what thy relational needs are? a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 17 It may fall in the relational part. Relations are the joints of society. 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 110 One might easily be tempted to take the two nations for relational stems. 1834 J. Brown Lett. Sanctification vi. 319 Be conscientious in the relational duties to God and man. 1893 G. A. Gordon Witness to Immortality in Lit. ii. 73 The mighty relational structure of human society. 1925 Michigan Law Rev. 24 157 The pursuit of a common end by a body of men held together by some relational bond. 1962 C. Smith tr. M. Merleau-Ponty Phenomenol. of Perception (2005) i. v. 143 The patient breaks with relational life within the family circle. 2006 Time 1 May 55/1 Girls have traditionally practiced not so much physical aggression as relational aggression. 2. Relating to or characterized by relation; that relates two or more things; expressing a relationship. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective] relationala1690 relationary1810 relatival1850 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [adjective] > relating to a relative relationala1690 relatival1850 relativizing1975 a1690 S. Jeake Compl. Body Arithm. (1701) iv. i. 405 I now come to review them [sc. numbers] in their common Nature, as they are Relational, and uncover their Comparative Elements. 1798 W. Tooke Castéra's Life Catharine II (ed. 2) I. 58 The relational value of the ruble to the money of other countries varies with the course of exchange. 1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. v. 229 The most highly relational feelings are the visual. 1908 W. R. B. Gibson Probl. Logic ii. 30 Formal definition is essentially relational in character, though in some cases the relational reference is more apparent than in others. 1967 Child Devel. 38 841 Preschool children..use the relational terms ‘more’, ‘same’, and ‘less’ when comparing the number, length, and weight of objects. 2006 L. Smolin Trouble with Physics xviii. 317 Relational quantum theories..are based on the idea that quantum mechanics is a description of relationships between subsystems of the universe. 3. Computing. Designating a database structure in which data is stored in relatively simple two-dimensional tables that can be combined in response to queries, using key information that is common to more than one table; relating to or having such a structure; esp. in relational database n. a database structured in this way. Cf. relation n. 2c. ΚΠ 1970 E. F. Codd in Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery 13 377/2 The relational view (or model) of data described in section 1 appears to be superior in several respects to the graph or network model. 1975 Proc. Internat. Conf. Very Large Data Bases 25 (title) Semantic integrity in a relational database system. 1993 Macworld Dec. 161/1 You could do a relational merge of a database of customer names and addresses with a database of customers' recent purchases to find out how much response you got from an advertisement. 1995 Computing 25 May 39/3 Some vendors and users contend that clever manipulation of a relational database is a less expensive alternative to setting up a multidimensional database. 2002 e-Business Advisor (Nexis) Aug. 9 A runtime framework to map Java objects to relational data sources. B. n. †1. In plural. Matters connected with a personal relationship. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1671 T. Hardcastle Let. 20 or 21 July in E. B. Underhill Rec. Church of Christ (1847) 156 I shall waive my needful journey into Yorkshire till I see you a little settled, as preferring the interest of Christ before relationals or personals. 2. Grammar. A word or particle expressing relation between other words, as a preposition or conjunction. Cf. relational word n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [noun] > relative or connective referent1635 connective1751 subjunctivea1831 link-word1871 relational1895 relation word1909 relator1933 relativizer1941 1895 C. A. McMurry Course Study for Eight Grades 114 The verb is always the principal relational in the sentence. 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating iv. 62 There are four principal functional classes of lexical symbols: object words, event words, abstracts, and relationals. 1978 Language 54 80 Some English prepositions correspond to Japanese genitive constructions with no plus relationals. 1999 H.-M. Sohn Korean Lang. (2001) vi. 128 Relationals such as particles, suffixes, and auxiliary verbs. Compounds relational database n. see A. 3. relational grammar n. Linguistics a theory of grammar in which clauses are analysed as networks of relationships rather than in terms of phrase structure. ΚΠ 1974 D. Johnson in Papers 10th Regional Meeting, Chicago Ling. Soc. 269 Postal and Perlmutter are presently developing a theory of relational grammar. 1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 185 Unless something like the ‘multi-attachment’ of relational grammar is utilized, the complement clause must have a gap..which is bound by the nominal in the matrix clause. relational grammarian n. a practitioner or student of relational grammar. ΚΠ 1981 Language 57 720 This new book..will make it harder for relational grammarians..to keep on re-inventing the wheel. 2001 M. C. Baker in W. D. Davies & S. Dubinsky Objects & Other Subj. ii. 26 The Relational Grammarians rarely said much about phase structure issues, beyond the basic facts that concerned the embedding of clauses and NPs. relational operator n. Mathematics, Logic, and Computing a mathematical or logical operator which expresses a comparison between two operands.Common relational operators include the symbols = ‘equal to’, < ‘less than’, and > ‘greater than’. ΚΠ 1951 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 16 157 For example, / is used both as a statement operator..and as a relational operator. 1979 Personal Computer World Nov. 73/3 Consider a Boolean expression like A = B... The = is known as a relational operator. 2003 S. Oualline Pract. C++ Programming (ed. 2) vi. 76 The operator <= is a relational operator that represents less than or equal to. relational word n. Grammar a word expressing relation or connection between other words; spec. a preposition or conjunction. ΚΠ 1830 C. F. Becker Gram. German Lang. Introd. 7 The use of relational words increases in languages in the same proportion as the power of inflection diminishes. 1969 J. Kaminsky Lang. & Ontol. xi. 162 I am not at all sure that even a relational word could not be held to be capable of use outside the context of a sentence. 2004 B. Pérez Becoming Biliterate vi. 138 She used relational words such as despues (after), entonces (and then), en seguida (following), and por ultimo (finally) to introduce most sentences. Derivatives relatioˈnality n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] yokeOE relationa1398 respecta1398 report1523 society?1545 habitude1561 conjugation1605 necessitudea1626 attinency1632 dependencea1634 belonginga1648 respectiveness1650 nexure1652 synapsis1655 relative1657 rapport1660 proportion1664 schesis1678 relationship1724 appurtenance1846 relationality1866 interosculation1883 tie-up1927 tie-in1934 1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice iii. iv. 307 The close relationality of it [sc. the law of love] is cross to our humanly selfish habit. 1925 W. P. Montague Ways of Knowing 369 Here is a notion that appears to be all shot through with relationality from the very start, for north presupposes south. 2005 E. Ellsworth Places of Learning ii. 52 This museum creates..a space of radical relationality by putting visitors' selves in relation to history. reˈlationally adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] relationally1850 1850 Theol. & Literary Jrnl. Apr. 543 All doctrinal statements of necessity treat the subjects which they respect relationally. 1923 Jrnl. Philos. 20 520 The average individual..must be able to orient himself relationally with a considerable repertoire of content symbols. 2006 M. H. Goodwin Hidden Life of Girls vii. 216 Teachers described girls as more relationally aggressive than boys, and boys as more overtly aggressive than girls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1657
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