Report : nm (word coming from report, porter)
The word “report” has many meanings:
I) Action of report :
A. Speech:
1. Literary meaning: Action of telling, of exposing to someone what one has seen, heard; what is reported (narrative, relationship, testimony).
Specially: Indiscreet information (denunciation, indiscretion).
– Quote from the French playwright and actor Molière (1622-1673): “We followed him this morning on the report of a valet who told us that he was going out on horseback”.
2. More or less official account (account).
Make a written or oral report on something, on someone.
Draw up, write a report.
To make a report to someone.
A detailed report. Report of arbitrator, expert (expertise), judge.
Sea report, written by the captain on the circumstances of the voyage.
Attachments to a report.
Confidential report, secret.
Police report.
Medical examiner's report.
Activity Report.
Mission report.
Scientific and technical report (analysis, description).
Summary report.
Financial report: annual account of a company's results and management.
Economic and financial report: document attached to the finance bill, which presents the economic situation of the country and summarizes the project.
Person in charge of a report (rapporteur).
Military: Report of the day's events, service details.
By extension: Meeting of troops and certain non-commissioned officers and officers for the communication of instructions, the distribution of mail, the reading of punishments...
Reporting !
B. What is added:
1. The fact of procuring a profit (fruit, product, yield).
Living from the return of land, capital, shares (dividend).
To be of a great, of a good, of a better report.
Meaning aged: Building, apartment house, whose owner profits by renting; by extension: urban building with a bourgeois appearance.
Report of the trifecta, of the quarter: the sums won calculated for a given bet.
2. Addition of material of foreign origin.
Return land, taken from one place and carried elsewhere (reported).
Report gold, plated, reported.
3. Right: Restitution; action of bringing back a good, a sum.
Civil law: Report of property to the mass, before a partition.
Report of donations, liberalities, made by a co-heir ab intestate.
Succession report.
II) Link between several things
1. Link, relationship which exists between several distinct objects and which the mind observes (connection, relationship).
Relationship between two things, of one thing and another, of one thing with another.
Linked by a (relative) report.
Relationships (filiation).
Establish, perceive relationships between facts, events (link).
I don't see the connection: I don't understand the link.
To relate two things (to compare them, etc.).
Phrase: To relate to: to have as its object.
This text is related to what you are looking for.
There is no relation between these two things: they are absolutely independent or incomparable things.
There is no relationship; it has no connection: it has nothing to do.
With two nouns affixed: A good quality-price ratio.
Grammatical relationship between words, clauses of a sentence.
2. Relationship of resemblance; traits, common elements (agreement, affinity, analogy, kinship.
French and Italian are related to Latin.
To be unrelated to, quite different from.
Results unrelated to the previous ones.
Convenience, the fact of going well with, of adapting to. (adjustment, conformity, harmony).
– Quote from the Genevan novelist, letter writer and philosopher Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein, known under the name of Madame de Staël (1766-1817): “The Germans have more natural relations with the English than with the French.
Related to: which corresponds to, suits. He is looking for a job that matches his skills.
3. Cause and effect relationship (correlation, dependence, sequence).
To establish, to make the connection between two things, two events (reconciliation; link).
The two facts are not unrelated, are linked or have similarities.
4. Science (Mathematics): Quotient of two quantities of the same kind (fraction, ratio).
Relationship between a magnitude and a standard, a unit (measurement).
Constant relationship between the graphic representation and the represented object (scale).
The report of the military forces present.
In the ratio of one to ten, one hundred to one.
Automotive: Transmission ratio (of a device): quotient of the speed of rotation of the output shaft by that of the input shaft.
Transmission ratio of a gearbox.
Five-speed gearbox.
Music: The relationships of consonances. Enharmonic ratio (example: B flat – A sharp).
Fine arts: Quote from the French painter Fernand Léger (1881-1955): “The ratio of volumes, lines and colors requires absolute orchestration and order”.
To be in a relationship of symmetry (to respond to each other).
5. Prepositional phrase: in relation to: for what looks.
Speaking of relative positions (relatively -to).
By comparing with, establishing a quantitative relationship between.
Considering one quantity in relation to another (Depending on).
The price of oil has increased compared to last year.
Negligee: Reverse. He feels guilty about you.
6. Prepositional phrase: relation to: with regard to, about. (re).
Due to.
Popular: Report that (and indic.): because.
7. In relation to, in such relation: by such side, in such respect.
To consider a thing under such and such a relation (aspect).
Quote from the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880): "a beautiful question to study, both from a pathological and physiological point of view".
In all (the) reports: in all respects.
Good man in all respects (bstr, in the classifieds).
III)° Relationship between persons:
1. Especially in the plural: Relationship between people (trade, connection, relationship).
The relationships of men to each other.
Human relationships.
Male-female relationships.
Social relations, social life.
Professional, friendly relationships.
Close, ongoing relationships.
Maintain good relations with sb.
Having a passionate, strained relationship with sb.
Power relations, conflicts.
In the singular: Between them, there is a perpetual balance of power.
Business reports.
Quote from the French writer Paul Léautaud (1872-1956): “In my dealings with people, I am very mocking”.
Relations between parents and children. Mother-daughter relationships.
Especially: Sexual intercourse, or intercourse.
To have sex with someone (to make love).
Spouses who no longer have intercourse.
Protected intercourse (with condom).
Related. Be in touch with; be related.
To get in touch with someone (to contact).
They were brought into contact (aboucher).
2. Relationship with communities.
Relations between States, between peoples.
Franco-German relations.
Countries that maintain relations of peaceful coexistence.
3. Figurative meaning: Quote from the French surrealist writer André Breton (1896-1966): “An art which maintains close relationships with magic”.
4. The report of sb to sb. : relationship, attitude of a person towards sth. ; way of apprehending sth.
Our relationship to the world.
His relationship to money is pathological.
Opposite of relationship: disproportion.