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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