different between pertaining vs relationship

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??te?n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??te?n??/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Hyphenation: per?tain?ing

Verb

pertaining

1. present participle of pertain

Noun

pertaining (plural pertainings)

1. Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
   • 1869, Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature (page 90)

     When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.

Anagrams

• repainting

English

Etymology

From relation +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???le??(?)n??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???le???n???p/
• Hyphenation: re?la?tion?ship

Noun

relationship (plural relationships)

1. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
3. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
4. A romantic or sexual involvement.
   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.

   • 2000, April 8, Dorthea Straus, "Oates on Marilyn: Men, drugs, tragedy", The Baltimore Sun

     Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.

5. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
6. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Hyponyms

• joking relationship

Derived terms

• entity-relationship diagram
• entity-relationship model
• relationship anarchy
• relationshipless
• relationshiply
• relationshippy
• relationshopping

Translations

See also

• relate
• relation
• relative