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Relating vs. Amenable — What's the Difference?

Relating vs. Amenable — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Relating and Amenable

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Relating

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

Amenable

Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority
"a class that is all the more amenable to control for living perpetually under the threat of deportation" (Amitav Ghosh).

Relating

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

Amenable

Ready to consent; agreeable
Are you amenable to a change in schedule?.

Relating

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

Responsible to higher authority; accountable
Amenable to the law.

Relating

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

Amenable

Susceptible or open, as to testing or criticism
"The phenomenon of mind ... is much more complex, though also more amenable to scientific investigation, than anyone suspected" (Michael D. Lemonick).

Relating

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

Amenable

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

Relating

Present participle of relate

Amenable

Willing to comply; easily led.

Relating

The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation.

Amenable

Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.

Amenable

(law) Liable to the legal authority of (something).
Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities

Amenable

Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

Amenable

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.

Amenable

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.
Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government.

Amenable

Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.

Amenable

Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.
Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel.

Amenable

Disposed or willing to comply;
Someone amenable to persuasion
The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak

Amenable

Readily reacting to suggestions and influences;
A responsive student

Amenable

Liable to answer to a higher authority;
The president is amenable to the constitutional court

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