Difference between Relation and Telling

What is the difference between Relation and Telling?

Relation as a noun is the manner in which two things may be associated. while Telling as a noun is the act of narration.

Relation

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The manner in which two things may be associated. A member of one's family. The act of relating a story. A set of ordered tuples. Specifically, a set of ordered pairs. A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table. A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.

Example sentence: Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Telling

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having forcerevealing informationserving to convince

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of narration.The disclosure of information.Counting, numbering.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.

Example sentence: I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

We hope you now know whether to use Relation or Telling in your sentence.

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