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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Related \Re*lat"ed\ (-l?t"?d), p. p. & a.
1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.
2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related.
3. Narrated; told.
4. (Mus.) Same as {Relative}, 4.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Relate \Re*late"\ (r?-l?t"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Related}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Relating}.] [F. relater to recount, LL. relatare, fr. L. relatus, used as p. p. of referre. See {Elate}, and cf. {Refer}.]
1. To bring back; to restore. [Obs.]
Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. --Spenser.
2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. [Obs. or R.]
3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over.
This heavy act with heavy heart relate. --Shak.
4. To ally by connection or kindred.
{To relate one's self}, to vent thoughts in words. [R.]
Syn: To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
related
adjective
1: being connected or associated; "painting and the related arts"; "school-related activities"; "related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces" [syn: {related to}] [ant: {unrelated}]
2: connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage [ant: {unrelated}]
3: similar or related in quality or character; "a feeling akin to terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related to the collector" [syn: {akin(p)}, {kindred}]
4: having close kinship and appropriateness; "he asks questions that are germane and central to the issue" [syn: {germane(p)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "related": affiliate, affiliated, affinal, agnate, akin, allied, associate, associated, avuncular, bound, bracketed, closely related, cognate, collateral, common, congeneric, congenerous, conjugate, connate, connatural, connected, consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, coordinated, correlated, coupled, distantly related, enate, foster, genetically related, german, germane, implicated, interconnected, interdependent, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, involved, joined, joint, kin, kindred, knotted, linked, matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous, mutual, novercal, of common source, of that ilk, of that kind, of the blood, parallel, patrilateral, patrilineal, patroclinous, reciprocal, related by blood, sib, sibling, spliced, tied, tied up, twinned, uterine, wed, wedded, yoked
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