Definition of "relate"

relate

/ɹɪˈleɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present relates, present participle relating, simple past and past participle related
1. (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
2. (transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
  Quotations
  The use of video made it possible to relate the talk to the answers given to particular problems in the test. With this research design it was possible to relate changes in test score measures to changes in linguistic features […]
  2002, Paul Light, Karen Littleton, Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions, page 92
3. (intransitive) To have a connection.
4. (intransitive) To interact.
5. (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
6. (intransitive, with to) To identify with; to understand.
7. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
  Quotations
  Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again / Both light of heaven and strength of men relate.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 51