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Involve vs. Relate — What's the Difference?

Involve vs. Relate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Involve and Relate

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Involve

Have or include (something) as a necessary or integral part or result
A bill proposing harsher penalties for crimes involving firearms and drugs
My job involves a lot of travelling

Relate

Relate is a charity providing relationship support throughout the United Kingdom. Services include counselling for couples, families, young people and individuals, sex therapy, mediation and training courses.

Involve

To have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail
Was told that the job would involve travel.

Relate

Make or show a connection between
A supercomputer could relate all those factors
The study examines social change within the city and relates it to developments in the country as a whole

Involve

To relate to or affect
The matter is serious because it involves your reputation.
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Relate

Feel sympathy for or identify with
Kids related to him because he was so rebellious

Involve

To cause to burn; spread to
The blaze involved the house next door.

Relate

Give an account of; narrate
Various versions of the story have been related by the locals

Involve

To engage as a participant; embroil
The bystanders got involved in a dispute with the police.

Relate

To give an account of (an occurrence, for example); narrate.

Involve

To show to be a participant; connect or implicate
Evidence that involved the governor in the scandal.

Relate

To establish or demonstrate a connection between
I related his grumpiness to a lack of sleep.

Involve

To engage (oneself) in a love affair
Was involved with a colleague at work.

Relate

To have connection, relation, or reference
How education relates to income.
A question relating to foreign policy.

Involve

To occupy or engage the interest of
A story that completely involved me for the rest of the evening.

Relate

To have or establish a social relationship; interact
She relates well to her peers.

Involve

To wrap; envelop
A castle that was involved in mist.

Relate

To understand or react favorably to someone or something
I just can't relate to these new fashions.

Involve

(Archaic) To wind or coil about.

Relate

(transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
The captain related an old yarn.
Please relate the circumstances of your journey here today.

Involve

(transitive) To comprise or include; to have as a related part.
My job involves forecasting economic trends.

Relate

(transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).

Involve

(transitive) To cause or engage (someone or something) to participate or to become connected or implicated.
How can we involve the audience more during the show?
By involving herself in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.
I don't want to involve him in my personal affairs.
We are always trying to involve new technology in our products.

Relate

(intransitive) To have a connection.
The patterns on the screen relate to the pitch and volume of the music being played.

Involve

To envelop, enfold, entangle.
To involve a person in debt or misery

Relate

(intransitive) To interact.

Involve

To complicate or make intricate.

Relate

(intransitive) To respond through reaction.

Involve

(largely obsolete) To take in; to gather in; to mingle, blend or merge.

Relate

To identify with; to understand.
I find it difficult to relate to others because I'm extremely introverted.

Involve

To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
A quantity involved to the third or fourth power

Relate

(obsolete) To bring back; to restore.

Involve

(archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

Relate

To bring back; to restore.
Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next againBoth light of heaven and strength of men relate.

Involve

(archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
To involve in darkness or obscurity

Relate

To refer; to ascribe, as to a source.

Involve

(archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

Relate

To recount; to narrate; to tell over.
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

Involve

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
Some of serpent kind . . . involvedTheir snaky folds.

Relate

To ally by connection or kindred.

Involve

To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
And leave a singèd bottom all involvedWith stench and smoke.

Relate

To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; - with to.
All negative or privative words relate positive ideas.

Involve

To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

Relate

To make reference; to take account.
Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account.

Involve

To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
He knowsHis end with mine involved.
The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.

Relate

Make a logical or causal connection;
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
Colligate these facts
I cannot relate these events at all

Involve

To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
The gathering number, as it moves along,Involves a vast involuntary throng.
Earth with hellTo mingle and involve.

Relate

Have to do with or be relevant to;
There were lots of questions referring to her talk
My remark pertained to your earlier comments

Involve

To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

Relate

Give an account of;
The witness related the events

Involve

To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

Relate

Be in a relationship with;
How are these two observations related?

Involve

To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

Relate

Have or establish a relationship to;
She relates well to her peers

Involve

Connect closely and often incriminatingly;
This new ruling affects your business

Involve

Engage as a participant;
Don't involve me in your family affairs!

Involve

Have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail;
This decision involves many changes

Involve

Require as useful, just, or proper;
It takes nerve to do what she did
Success usually requires hard work
This job asks a lot of patience and skill
This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice
This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent

Involve

Contain as a part;
Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses

Involve

Wrap;
The tower was involved in mist

Involve

Occupy or engage the interest of;
His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon

Involve

Make complex or intricate or complicated;
The situation was rather involved

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