Account vs. Relation

Accountnoun

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.

Accountnoun

(banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.

Accountnoun

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

Accountnoun

A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

Accountnoun

(business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.

Accountnoun

A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.

Accountnoun

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Accountnoun

Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

Accountnoun

An authorization to use a service.

Accountnoun

(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

Accountnoun

Profit; advantage.

Accountverb

To provide explanation.

Accountverb

To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.

Accountverb

To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.

Accountverb

(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).

Accountverb

(intransitive) To consider that.

Accountverb

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.

Accountverb

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.

Accountverb

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.

Accountverb

(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.

Accountverb

(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).

Accountverb

To count.

Accountverb

To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).

Accountverb

(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.

Accountverb

(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

Accountnoun

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

Accountnoun

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

Accountnoun

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

Accountnoun

A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.

Accountnoun

A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

Accountnoun

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Accountnoun

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.

Accountverb

To reckon; to compute; to count.

Accountverb

To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; - with to.

Accountverb

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.

Accountverb

To recount; to relate.

Accountverb

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

Accountverb

To render an account; to answer in judgment; - with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

Accountverb

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

Accountnoun

a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services;

Accountnoun

the act of informing by verbal report;

Accountnoun

a record or narrative description of past events;

Accountnoun

a short account of the news;

Accountnoun

a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;

Accountnoun

a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.;

Accountnoun

an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;

Accountnoun

grounds;

Accountnoun

importance or value;

Accountnoun

the quality of taking advantage;

Accountverb

be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something;

Accountverb

keep an account of

Accountverb

to give an account or representation of in words;

Accountverb

furnish a justifying analysis or explanation;

Relationnoun

The manner in which two things may be associated.

Relationnoun

A member of one's family.

Relationnoun

The act of relating a story.

Relationnoun

(set theory) A set of ordered tuples.

Relationnoun

(set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

(mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.

Relationnoun

(category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.

Relationnoun

(usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

Relationnoun

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

Relationnoun

The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.

Relationnoun

Reference; respect; regard.

Relationnoun

Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.

Relationnoun

A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.

Relationnoun

The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.

Relationnoun

an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

Relationnoun

the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Relationnoun

a person related by blood or marriage;

Relationnoun

an act of narration;

Relationnoun

(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time;

Relationnoun

(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups;