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associate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Associated; p. pr. & vb. n. Associating.] [L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion. See Social.]
To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.
To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
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To connect or place together in thought.
He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
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To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.]
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
--Shak.
Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, n.
A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.
A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.
One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.
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Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.
The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it.
--Locke.Syn: Companion; mate; fellow; friend; ally; partner; coadjutor; comrade; accomplice.
Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. i.
To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.
--E. Darwin.
Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, a. [L. associatus, p. p.]
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Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.
While I descend . . . to my associate powers.
--Milton. Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.
(Physiol.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.
--E. Darwin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from associate (adj.).
early 15c., "allied, connected, paired," from Latin associatus, past participle of associare (see associate (v.)).
Wiktionary
1 Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status. 2 Having partial status or privileges. 3 Following or accompanying; concomitant. 4 (context biology dated English) Connected by habit or sympathy. n. 1 A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague. 2 A companion; a comrade. 3 One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance. 4 A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges. v
1 (lb en intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association. 2 (lb en intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company. 3 (lb en transitive) To join as a partner, ally, or friend. 4 (lb en transitive) To connect or join together; combine. 5 (lb en transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
WordNet
adj. having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status; "an associate member"; "an associate professor" [syn: associate(a)]
v. make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn: tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple]
keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn: consort, affiliate, assort]
bring or come into association or action; "The churches consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: consociate]
n. a person who joins with others in some activity; "he had to consult his associate before continuing"
a person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar]
any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another; "first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate"
a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies [syn: associate degree]
Wikipedia
Associate may refer to: A pledge
Usage examples of "associate".
Fleete, accompanying them, as it is said, with such vvonderfull trauell of bodie, as doubtlesse had he bene the meanest person, as he vvas the chiefest, he had yet deserued the first place of honour: and no lesse happie do we accompt him, for being associated with Maister Carleill his Lieutenant generall, by whose experiences, prudent counsell, and gallant performance, he atchiued so many and happie enterprises of the warre, by vvhom also he was verie greatly assisted, in setting downe the needefull orders, lawes, and course of iustice, and for the due administration of the same vpon all occasions.
There are countless things in the mind, and its least parts are associated and conjoined in accord with affections or as one thing attracts another.
Emergency Convention, favored affiliation with the associates of the Moscow Conference as constituting the Third International.
Laud and his associates, by reviving a few primitive institutions of this nature, corrected the error of the first reformers, and presented to the affrightened and astonished mind some sensible, exterior observances, which might occupy it during its religious exercises, and abate the violence of its disappointed efforts.
In all his life he had never been anywhere as unequivocally alien as here, inside a giant torus of cold, compressed gas orbiting a black hole - itself in orbit around a brown dwarf body light years from the nearest star - its exterior studded with ships - most of them the jaggedly bulbous shapes of Affront craft - and full, in the main, of happy, space-faring Affronters and their collection of associated victim-species.
Or suppose, rather, not a lotus -- for associated with the lotus are a lot of well-known allegorical references: suppose I lifted a buttercup and asked for the meaning of a buttercup!
His amiable manners and generous heart had endeared him to all, and in a short time his delicate feelings were respected, and the slightest allusion to ambiguity of birth cautiously avoided by all his associates, who, whatever might be their suspicions, thought his brilliant qualifications more than compensated for any want of ancestral distinction.
That evening, reproached by associates and tortured by ambivalence, he committed suicide.
She knew that Ambler had told a number of peoplehis ex-wife, his associates, even virtual strangersthat his life goal was not to amass a huge reservoir of money.
Close your eyes, amplify the harmonic in your mind, and associate it with naturally occurring sounds.
An example is the conflicted desire many men feel for anal stimulation, an innocent pleasure that some associate with homosexuality.
Sometimes there is associated with these anomalies curious terminations of the salivary ducts, either through the cheek by means of a fistula or on the anterior part of the neck.
An Associated Press reporter asked me to respond to the news that a letter containing anthrax had been delivered to the Washington office of my colleague, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
Chest discomfort, vomiting, and shortness of breath are usually associated with anthrax, but not with the flu.
Apostles or one of the apostolic men, who, however, associated with the Apostles.