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adjust |
to bring to a more desirable, fitting, or correct state, relationship, position, or the like. [1/5 definitions] |
affair |
a love relationship, especially one between two people who are not married to each other. [1/3 definitions] |
affinity |
a relationship by marriage. [1/5 definitions] |
Ainu |
the language of this people, of undetermined relationship to other language groups. [1/3 definitions] |
alignment |
the appropriate or expected relationship of one thing to another or others. [1/4 definitions] |
analogy |
a statement of logic wherein one set of paired items has the same relationship between its two members as two items of another set. [1/5 definitions] |
antibiosis |
a relationship between two organisms that harms one of them. (Cf. symbiosis.) |
apposition |
in grammar, the relationship, esp. of the second to the first, of two nouns or noun equivalents that are placed together in a sentence without a connecting conjunction, as in "Ed Smith, the famous athlete". [1/3 definitions] |
attached |
(informal) married or in a romantic relationship; not single or available as a partner. [1/4 definitions] |
Basque |
the language spoken by this people, which has no known relationship to other languages. [1/3 definitions] |
be done with |
to have no further relationship or connection with; end. |
belonging |
closeness and mutual acceptance in a relationship. [1/2 definitions] |
boyfriend |
a favorite male friend with whom you have a romantic relationship. |
break up |
to end a relationship. [1/3 definitions] |
case1 |
in grammar, the syntactical relationship of a noun, pronoun, or adjective to other words in a sentence, indicated by its inflection or its position in the sentence. [2/9 definitions] |
causality |
the relationship or connection between cause and effect. [1/3 definitions] |
causation |
the relationship between cause and effect; causality. [1/2 definitions] |
chummy |
(informal) in a close, friendly relationship, or acting as if one were or wished to be in such a relationship. |
cohabit |
to live together in an intimate relationship, esp. outside of marriage. |
come between |
to break or disturb the relationship between (two people). |
companionship |
the relationship between or among companions; friendship. |
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