relate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To narrate or tell. See Synonyms at describe.
2. v. To bring into or link in logical or natural association. See Synonyms at join.
3. v. To establish or demonstrate a connection between.
4. v. To have connection, relation, or reference: The symbols relate to an earlier system.
5. v. To have or establish a reciprocal relationship; interact: She doesn't relate well to her peers.
6. v. To react in response, especially favorably: I just can't relate to these new fashions.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bring back; restore.
2. To bring into relation; refer.
3. To refer or ascribe as to a source or origin; connect with; assert a relation with.
4. To tell; recite; narrate: as, to relate the story of Priam.
5. To ally by connection or blood.
6. Synonyms To recount, rehearse, report, detail, describe. See account, n.
7. To have reference or respect; have regard; stand in some relation; have some understood position when considered in connection with something else.
8. To make reference; take account.
9. To have relation or connection.
10. n. Anything considered as being in a relation to another thing; something considered as being the first term of a relation to another thing. Also relatum.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To tell in a descriptive way.
2. v. transitive To give an association.
3. v. transitive To make a connection from sth to sth (e.g. to relate this to that).
4. v. intransitive To have a connection.
5. v. intransitive To interact.
6. v. intransitive To respond through reaction.
7. v. intransitive To identify with, understand.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To bring back; to restore.
2. v. Obs. or R. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source.
3. v. To recount; to narrate; to tell over.
4. v. To ally by connection or kindred.
5. v. To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.
6. v. R. & Obs. To make reference; to take account.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. give an account of
2. v. be in a relationship with
3. v. be relevant to
4. v. have or establish a relationship to
5. v. make a logical or causal connection