1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. association

Find the word definition

What is "association"

Crossword clues for association

association
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
association
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a professional body/association (=organization that people from a particular profession can belong to)
▪ Is your architect a member of a professional body?
association football
fraternal association/organization/society
housing association
parent-teacher association
residents' association
savings and loan association
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ Fine collection of pictures, Rockingham china. Close associations with Charles Dickens.
▪ By its close association with women.
▪ Most of the teaching was offered in small tutorial groups with close association between staff and students.
▪ That began a close association between the two, with the artist applying himself assiduously to the theories of his friend.
▪ Coupled with his close association with medicine, it explains why he decided to follow the career of scientist and natural philosopher.
▪ Crosse's close association with Ralegh ruined his prospects at the court of James I and he retired.
▪ The close association with the university teaching programs which prepare future teachers of exceptional children. 2.
free
▪ Freud later developed the technique of free association, a triumph which is often neglected in the discussion of his controversial theories.
▪ Mosk, though a loyal liberal Democrat, demurred, citing the right of free political association.
▪ This technique of free association is a contribution to psychology which is used widely by psychotherapists, including behaviourists.
▪ Even the most innocent Jell-O fact sends me spiraling into free association darker than even the blackest black cherry.
▪ Science may be obliged to find a new word free from religious associations.
▪ Only very rarely would subjects become conscious of the fact that this was not a bona fide study in free association.
▪ Remember, one of the fundamental freedoms is the right of free association.
▪ This would violate their constitutional right of free association.
local
▪ A number of local fishermen's associations have objected to the development.
▪ One waits for an outcry about such abuses from honest attorneys or an investigation by the local bar association.
▪ Victoria Lum Ting, one of the powers in the local family association, visited our house.
▪ A lay person would appear to be able to do little in this direction, except perhaps check with local trade associations.
▪ There are also local credit associations that exchange credit information.
▪ What Liverpool abolitionists initially expressed other local associations - in Hull, Norwich and Leicestershire for example - rapidly adopted.
▪ As a reaction to those events some local associations organised a demonstration on October 23.
long
▪ She was a total mystery to him in spite of their long and successful association.
▪ The long association with Jogis had bred out canine slavishness.
▪ She had imagined it was because of her long association with the name Lemarchand, but it was not that.
▪ Fortunately, Viktor valued him and they had a long association before he ever worked with Irina.
▪ The Davis's long association continues, for they are still the owners.
▪ Preston had a long association with railway stations.
▪ In this way began the darkest chapter in the cat's long association with mankind.
national
▪ Since the national association was formed, 1.5 million people have been referred to Victim Support.
▪ The national association estimates that 6 million workers moved from temporary to permanent positions in 1996.
▪ Training squads and programmes are now part and parcel of the structures within each of the national associations.
▪ The national association of large real estate developers sent its president to assist the process.
▪ Play Matters is the national toy library association and membership costs £17.50 a year for unlimited access to toys!
▪ Setting - National association for adults with cystic fibrosis.
professional
▪ The professional associations representing accountants sponsor numerous courses, seminars, group study programs, and other forms of continuing education.
▪ Yet realistically this dilemma is likely to be brief as long as employers hold the key to one's livelihood rather than the professional association.
▪ Join all the relevant trade and professional associations.
▪ The teacher unions and professional associations have produced clear and accurate documents for their members which inevitably highlight these problems.
▪ Others again, such as physics, chemistry or history, have important professional associations or societies without being full-blown professions.
▪ There are a variety of professional associations of doctors, nurses and teachers which give tacit support to the regime.
▪ Membership organisations Trade unions, trade associations, professional associations etc.
significant
▪ No other significant association between gastrointestinal symptoms and a specific organism was found.
▪ Again, neither involvement nor perceptions of threat has any significant association with the attitudes measured by this factor.
▪ Conversely, there was no significant association with portal hypertension.
▪ The only significant association was an increased risk of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma associated with first pregnancy.
▪ Barker etal also failed to find a significant association between birth weight and wheeze.
▪ Conversely, we found a highly significant association with the severity of liver disease as measured by the Child's classes.
▪ In accordance with Wyatt etal we found a significant association between the extent of gastric metaplasia and microscopic signs of duodenitis.
strong
▪ For woman as maker and subject, earth has particularly strong associations.
▪ Studies show a strong association between consistent dividend growth and long-term stock performance.
▪ The strong association between antral tumours and chronic active gastritis suggests the possibility that H pylori infection may have a pathogenic role.
▪ The blue saddlecloth evidently had a strong association with pain; which indicated the reason for her earlier unsuccessful training.
▪ However, a much stronger negative association was found between neurotic symptoms and the perceived adequacy of social relationships.
▪ The strong association between colorectal dysplasia and cancer in ulcerative colitis was described in 1967.
▪ A strong association, however, is not a proof of causation.
▪ Through its strong associations with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, abdominal obesity in particular is injurious.
voluntary
▪ Finally, in a free democratic society, voluntary associations provide a training ground for participation in wider politics.
▪ The village ceased to be a voluntary, personal association and became an administrative division existing for the convenience of the state.
▪ All things considered, women belong to somewhat fewer voluntary associations than men do.
▪ The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations.
▪ This implies that the government is operating in a world of autonomous, spontaneously self-creating, voluntary associations.
▪ Likewise, many aspects of leisure and voluntary associations associated with residential location belong in the sphere of civil society.
■ NOUN
authority
▪ Local authority associations have identified the need for additional resources to provide both housing and education of the children of refugees.
▪ The local authority associations were subsequently asked to provide an alternative set of proposals.
▪ I propose to consult local authority associations on that very point.
▪ But local authority associations, professional bodies and voluntary groups must not become scapegoats for government complacency and inaction.
▪ Local authority associations say the transfer money is likely to be more than £100 million short of what is needed.
▪ Eventually the local authority associations agreed a self-denying ordinance and in many authorities councillors do not seek access to records on individuals.
▪ The department agreed to consider this in consultation with the local authority associations.
housing
▪ It may be difficult to move areas since many local authorities and some housing associations operate strict residence restrictions.
▪ Nearly all new social housing is now being built by housing associations.
▪ Ten percent of the entries were local authority schemes with the remainder divided equally between housing associations and private developers.
▪ My hon. Friend knows of my great interest in further improving the resources available for housing associations.
▪ The Corporation provides money to housing associations which rent and sell property.
▪ On top of that, £358,000 was allocated to housing associations.
▪ We will continue our programme of Large Scale Voluntary Transfer of council properties to housing associations.
trade
▪ The obvious possibility is for their trade associations to play a role on their behalf.
▪ Of the 22 pilot projects funded so far, the vast majority are led by trade associations or industry groups.
▪ But what exactly is a trade association?
▪ The heavy package was sent to William Dennison, who had left the trade association almost a year earlier.
▪ A member of the mineral trade association is being sought to ensure that there is also adequate linkage with the commercial sector.
▪ A new report by the Baby Bells' trade association denies that.
■ VERB
establish
▪ The original reason for establishing our association had been to create a more representative forum for contacts.
▪ These include the more firmly established association between the drugs and a potentially fatal lung disease, primary pulmonary hypertension.
▪ Sherry, encouraged colleagues in Liverpool, London, Manchester and Preston to establish local associations.
form
▪ The sexes form different kinds of association for breeding in different species; some are monogamous, others polygynous, others polyandrous.
▪ Or, they form their own associations without being prompted and rewarded.
▪ Legal systems suppliers have recently formed a trade association that has been welcomed in the profession to encourage liaison and co-ordination.
▪ Many of these children come from families which do not readily form themselves into associations and pressure groups.
▪ They are not forming stimulus-response associations.
▪ The new law on association allowed citizens to form associations without prior approval of the Interior Ministry.
▪ This might have been another attempt deliberately to embarrass the newly formed association.
▪ Anyone can form a trade association - you don't need any special qualifications or approval.
house
▪ Against this background, it's no surprise that housing associations are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain staff.
▪ With good will from Government, charities, housing associations and local councils, something may be done.
▪ The housing associations also gained the freedom to raise their own funds for new housing developments.
▪ Black Roofs had stopped being a mutual housing association in 1991.
▪ Since then, housing associations raised 8. 5 billion pounds in private financing.
▪ A non-mutual housing association is, however, treated as a private landlord.
▪ Looks at housing association void management policy and practice, highlighting different approaches and the contribution of other agencies including local authorities.
show
▪ Several studies have shown the association of reflux oesophagitis with lower oesophageal sphincter dysfunction and impaired oesophageal peristalsis.
▪ Studies show a strong association between consistent dividend growth and long-term stock performance.
▪ It shows the close association that can exist between organic chemical synthesis and clay surfaces.
▪ Another study has shown a positive association between gastric cancer and exposure to coal dust in those miners who smoked.
▪ Both periodontal disease and poor oral hygiene showed stronger associations with total mortality than with coronary heart disease.
▪ Indeed, from the 1920s, several studies showed an association between spacing and survival of the offspring.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
voluntary organization/association/agency etc
▪ All voluntary agencies funded by the Department of Social Work must also now operate a complaints procedure.
▪ Do you belong to a voluntary organization?
▪ Local authorities or voluntary agencies should have provided the information, the association said.
▪ Many of the statutory and voluntary agencies provide advice without charge.
▪ The list of all the voluntary agencies concerned directly or indirectly with family welfare would be too long to provide here.
▪ The main voluntary agency dealing with literacy is Marxist.
▪ Think of your church, your synagogue, your voluntary organization.
▪ Under the initiative, voluntary agencies have received grants totalling £150,000.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a word-association game
▪ Foods served at holidays such as Thanksgiving have special associations.
▪ the college's alumni association
▪ the National Association of Head Teachers
▪ The National Basketball Association negotiates TV rights for important games.
▪ the National Education Association
▪ The new health care proposals have been criticized by the British Medical Association.
▪ There is evidence of an association between headaches and computer use.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For children with normal length of gestation there was a positive association between birth weight and lung function.
▪ Freedom of expression and of the press, and freedom of peaceful assembly, of association and of movement were all guaranteed.
▪ Maternity wards were notably slow to improve, largely due to their popularly believed, if apparently unfounded, association with prostitution.
▪ National associations also tend to sponsor larger schemes in the more important settlements rather than in areas of isolated housing need.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Association

Association \As*so`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. association, LL. associatio, fr. L. associare.]

  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. ``Some . . . bond of association.''
    --Hooker.

    Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God.
    --Boyle.

  2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.

    Words . . . must owe their powers association.
    --Johnson.

    Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned?
    --Coleridge.

  3. Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

    Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect.
    --Porter.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
association

1530s, "action of coming together," from Medieval Latin associationem (nominative associatio), noun of action from past participle stem of associare (see associate). Meaning "a body of persons with a common purpose" is from 1650s. Meaning "mental connection" is from 1680s; that of "quality or thing called to mind by something else" is from 1810.

Wiktionary
association

n. 1 The act of associate. 2 The state of being associate; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

Related phrases:
WordNet
association

  1. n. a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"

  2. the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"

  3. the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break" [ant: disassociation]

  4. a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England" [syn: affiliation, tie, tie-up]

  5. the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association" [syn: connection, connexion]

  6. a relation resulting from interaction or dependence; "flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association with a parasite"

  7. (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

  8. (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

Related phrases:
Wikipedia
Association

Association may refer to:

Voluntary associations, groups of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose:

  • 501(c) non-profit organization (USA)
  • Alumni association, an association of former students of a college or university
  • Professional association
  • Sports association
  • Trade association, another name of an industry trade group

Associations in various fields of study:

  • Archaeological association, in archaeology, the relationship between objects found together
  • Association (astronomy), combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures
  • Association (chemistry)
  • Association (ecology)
  • Association (genetics)
  • Association (object-oriented programming), a kind of grouping in object-oriented programming
  • Association (psychology), a connection between two or more concepts in the mind or imagination
  • Association (statistics)
  • File association, associates a file with a software application capable of opening that file
  • Free association of producers, the goal of anarchists and communists
  • Security Association, the establishment of shared security attributes between two network entities to support secure communication

Names of particular entities or things:

  • Continental Association, often called the "Association", an economic boycott during the American Revolution
  • HMS Association (1697), a Royal Navy ship which sank in 1707
  • L'Association, a French comic book publisher
  • The Association, a pop band
Association (psychology)

Association in psychology refers to a connection between conceptual entities or mental states that results from the similarity between those states or their proximity in space or time. The idea stems from Plato and Aristotle, especially with regard to the succession of memories, and it was carried on by philosophers such as John Locke, David Hume, David Hartley, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, and Alexander Bain. It finds its place in modern psychology in such areas as conditioning and in neural network models of memory.

Association (archaeology)

Association in archaeology is the close relationship between objects or contexts.

Association (astronomy)

An association (astronomy) is a combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures from which cosmic rays have been removed. WFPC2 associations constitute one type of association and are tools in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive for using data from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Associations were introduced in the HST archive at the beginning of 1998. Since then, astronomers have been able to retrieve on-the-fly re-calibrated co-added WFPC2 images that have already been cleaned of cosmic rays from the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC) and Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) archives.

Association (object-oriented programming)

In object-oriented programming, association defines a relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. This relationship is structural, because it specifies that objects of one kind are connected to objects of another and does not represent behaviour.

In generic terms, the causation is usually called "sending a message", "invoking a method" or "calling a member function" to the controlled object. Concrete implementation usually requires the requesting object to invoke a method or member function using a reference or pointer to the memory location of the controlled object.

The objects that are related via the association are considered to act in a role with respect to the association, if object's current state in the active situation allows the other associated objects to use the object in the manner specified by the role. A role can be used to distinguish two objects of the same class when describing its use in the context of the association. A role describes the public aspects of an object with respect to an association.

Association (ecology)

In community ecology and phytosociology an association is a type of ecological community with a predictable species composition, consistent physiognomy (structural appearance) which occurs in a particular habitat type. The term was first coined by Alexander von Humboldt and formalised by the International Botanical Congress in 1910.

An association can be viewed as a real, integrated entity shaped either by species interactions or by similar habitat requirements, or it can be viewed as merely a common point along a continuum. The former viewed was championed by American ecologist Frederic Clements, who viewed the association as a whole that was more than the sum of its parts, and by Josias Braun-Blanquet, a Swiss-born phytosociologist. On the other end of the argument was American ecologist Henry Gleason, who saw these groupings of plant species as a coincidence produced by the "fluctuation and fortuitous immigration of plants, and an equally fluctuating and variable environment".

Related phrases:

Usage examples of "association".

Association of University Lecturers, under the tight leadership of old Nazi hands, was given a decisive role in selecting who was to teach and to see that what they taught was in accordance with Nazi theories.

Office, which, at the time of the West Memphis investigation, had lost its accreditation by the National Association of Medical Examiners.

Because there was no foresight to ensure continuity in the growth of institutions, there were these unpremeditated and often morbid growths, expressive of the accumulating discomfort and discontent and of the need for a more intimate, energetic and fruitful form of human association.

This he managed to do without disturbing the flow of free association from his analysand, who was stretched out upon the couch.

That being the ideal of Anarchism, its economic arrangements must consist of voluntary productive and distributive associations, gradually developing into free communism, as the best means of producing with the least waste of human energy.

Medico-Chirurgical Association of London, January 25, 1870, there was an anosmic patient mentioned who was very fond of the bouquet of moselle, and Carter mentioned that he knew a man who had lost both the senses of taste and smell, but who claimed that he enjoyed putrescent meat.

LORD to strengthen us by His HOLY SPIRIT for this end, and to bless our desires and proceedings with such success, as may be deliverance and safety to His people, and encouragement to other Christian churches, groaning under, or in danger of, the yoke of antichristian tyranny, to join in the same or like association and covenant, to the glory of GOD, the enlargement of the kingdom of JESUS CHRIST, and the peace and tranquility of Christian kingdoms and commonwealths.

And active, to work deliverance and safety not only to these two kingdoms, but to all other Christian churches groaning under, or in danger of, the yoke of Antichristian tyranny, whom God shall persuade to join in the same, or like association and covenant.

One way that this archetypal association manifests itself in dreams is that there is a tendency for the quality of light in dreams to be metaphoric of the quality of waking consciousness that has already been brought to the main theme of the dream.

One of these regulations was, that no man coming into any given district or county within the control assumed by the associating parties, should be allowed to work without previously paying five pounds sterling, to be applied to the funds of the association.

At this period, indeed, political associations had acquired considerable strength and consistency, and their danger was increased by the new and unconstitutional measure of appointing delegates to transact their business in the capital, and to promote the objects of their petitions.

Universe, how they make the Soul blameable for the association with body, how they revile the Administrator of this All, how they ascribe to the Creator, identified with the Soul, the character and experiences appropriate to partial be beings.

As a matter of fact the ancient doctrine of the Divine Essences was far the sounder and more instructed, and must be accepted by all not caught in the delusions that beset humanity: it is easy also to identify what has been conveyed in these later times from the ancients with incongruous novelties--how for example, where they must set up a contradictory doctrine, they introduce a medley of generation and destruction, how they cavil at the Universe, how they make the Soul blameable for the association with body, how they revile the Administrator of this All, how they ascribe to the Creator, identified with the Soul, the character and experiences appropriate to partial be beings.

Despite the aggressive tenor of the moment, kochan-father Brem would have seen this as an opportunity to widen association.

At the meeting of the British Association in Liverpool of that year, a committee was appointed to consider the subject of animal experimentation, and the result of their deliberations appears in the annual report.