different between relation vs belonging

English

Etymology

From Middle English relacion, relacioun, from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Old French relacion (whence French relation), from Latin rel?ti?, noun of process form from perfect passive participle rel?tus (“related”), from verb refer? (“I refer, I relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + fer? (“I bear, I carry”).

Morphologically relate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?-l?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /???le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

relation (countable and uncountable, plural relations)

1. The manner in which two things may be associated.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

2. A member of one's extended family; a relative.

3. The act of relating a story.
   • 1669, Letter from Dr. Merrett to Thomas Browne, in Simon Wilkin (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne’s Works including his Life and Correspondence, London: William Pickering, 1836, Volume I, p. 443,^[1]

     Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king’s fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]

   • 1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, Preface,^[2]

     […] seeing they are diversly related by Writers that lived near about one and the self-same time, we may easily perceive that they were common things, derived from precedent Memorials; and that they became various, by reason of the divers Ornaments bestowed on them by particular Relations […]
4. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.

   • […] Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation between sign, object, and sign user is called the sign relation or relation of denotation.

5. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.

6. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.

7. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
8. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
9. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

Synonyms

• (way in which two things may be associated): connection, link, relationship
• (member of one's family): relative
• (act of relating a story): recounting, telling
• (mathematics: set of ordered tuples): correspondence
• See also Thesaurus:relative

Hyponyms

• (set theory): function

Derived terms

Related terms

• relate
• relational
• relative
• relator

Translations

Anagrams

• Oriental, Tirolean, oriental, taileron, tenorial

French

Etymology

From Old French relacion, from Latin rel?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.la.sj??/

Noun

relation f (plural relations)

1. relation
2. relationship

Further reading

• “relation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• enrôlait, oriental

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin rel?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?la??u?n/

Noun

relation c

1. relation; how two things may be associated
2. (mathematics) relation; set of ordered tuples
3. (computing) relation; retrievable by a database

Declension

See also

• samband

Anagrams

• laotiern

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??l????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??l????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Hyphenation: be?long?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English belonginge, belanging, belangand, equivalent to belong +? -ing.

Verb

belonging

1. present participle of belong

Etymology 2

From belong +? -ing.

Noun

belonging (countable and uncountable, plural belongings)

1. (uncountable) The feeling that one belongs.

   I have a feeling of belonging in London.

   A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.

2. (countable, chiefly in the plural) Something physical that is owned.

   Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     […] Thyself and thy belongings

     Are not thine own so proper as to waste

     Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Compass, 1958, Chapter 9, p. 117,^[2]

     In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.

   • 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, 1992, Part I, p. 22,^[3]

     Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch […]

3. (plural only, colloquial, dated) family; relations; household.
   • 1854, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, London: Bradbury & Evans, Chapter 33, p. 322,^[4]

     When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.

   • 1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, Part II, Chapter Three,^[5]

     As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.

Synonyms

• (something physical that is owned): possession, thing

Translations

Anagrams

• englobing