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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
associate
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an associate member (=one who has fewer rights than a full member)
▪ Turkey is an associate member of the European Union.
associate membership (=with only some of the rights allowed to members)
▪ In the early 1990s, the Soviet Union was offered associate membership of the International Monetary Fund.
Associate of Arts
associate professor
associated company
the risks involved/the risks associated with sth
▪ The soldiers were well aware of the risks involved.
▪ The public are unwilling to accept the risks associated with nuclear energy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ The Prime Minister designate obviously viewed me with suspicion, as being closely associated with his predecessor.
▪ Not fully understanding all the implications of our warrant, they feared having their good name too closely associated with it.
▪ Roshchin was one of the younger playwrights who became closely associated with MKhAT after Yefremov moved there from the Sovremennik in 1970.
▪ The men are often in the home, doing work closely associated with women in most societies.
▪ Even with alcohol being legal, it is far more closely associated with the commission of crime than are drugs.
▪ Instead, the basalt flows and volcanic central peaks are found to be very closely associated with large craters.
■ VERB
seem
▪ In Eliot's own life such an idea seems to have been associated particularly with artistic movements of the big cities.
▪ Though the fault was hardly my own, the President seemed to associate me with the whole unfortunate episode.
▪ So acids, it would seem, are associated with the paints, alkalis with the building materials.
▪ There is no straight forward and necessary correspondence between a political structure and the political functions that seem logically associated with the structure.
▪ Elevated muscarinic receptor seemed therefore to be associated with the early phases of memory formation.
▪ Where there is evidence for volcanic activity on the Moon, it generally seems to be associated with impact events.
▪ Once development begins, the embryo divides rapidly and each mitosis seems to be associated with an increase in calcium.
▪ The objects come in various shapes and usually, though not always, seem to be associated with nearby star.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
closely related/connected/associated etc
▪ Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species.
▪ However, a further ten shared elements show whales to be closely related to hippopotami.
▪ It is not isolated but closely connected with contemporary movements.
▪ Perhaps even more than is usual in the social sciences, theory is closely related to practice.
▪ Power strategies are closely related to power bases.
▪ The men are often in the home, doing work closely associated with women in most societies.
▪ These enormous structures vary with age and are closely related to the dominance of their owners in the hierarchy.
▪ This is closely related to item 3 above.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I've always associated the smell of paint and my first grade art class.
▪ People associate the old days with good times, and seem to forget the hardship they endured.
▪ Shoppers tend to associate certain brand names with high quality.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By using metaphors and similes you allow the readers to associate their own experiences, memories, or connotations.
▪ Chronic alcoholic patients may have normal, enhanced, or diminished acid secretory capacity; hypochlorhydria being associated histologically with atrophic gastritis.
▪ However, there are two costs associated with trade credit.
▪ In this case an increase in gross output will be associated with an increase in both scale and diversity.
▪ Most human infections are associated with exposure to aquatic environments or to recent consumption of seafood.
▪ The induction of ventricular arrhythmias was associated with a 21% mortality against 4% in the negative group.
▪ The Turners had long been associated with the ironmongery trade in Dublin.
▪ These two words in combination and individually were also associated with other part numbers.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sales associate
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Friends and associates describe Starr, the son of a Baptist minister, as a man of deep religious convictions.
▪ She was the daughter of the establishment poetess, Yekaterina Sheveleva, a long-time associate of Yuri Andropov.
▪ So why do so many of his own White House associates speak of him in tones of regret?
▪ The media were also out in force, although not with the blessing of the Thompson family or their friends and associates.
▪ They also decided to focus most on mid-level associates and young partners.
III.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
director
▪ Sarah Lutyens, head of rights, contracts and special sales, has been appointed an associate director of Pan Macmillan.
member
▪ The aim is now to change the constitution to elect four associate members on to a management committee.
▪ I've never seen her at a meeting, but she could still be an associate member.
▪ These activities are available when you join the society as an associate member.
▪ The Activist Confederations were to be associate members who were to disseminate the belief in corporatism throughout the community.
membership
▪ Interested parties have the choice of full club membership for £10,000 or associate membership for £2,500.
professor
▪ I participated in a national competition called to fill eight positions of associate professor in gastroenterology.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If you prefer the idea of studying a single course as an associate student, tick box OO91.
▪ Twice a year the associate members' foreign ministers meet those of the Community, and senior officials see each other more often.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Associate

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.]

  1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

  2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.

  3. 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.
    --Macaulay.

  4. To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.]

    Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
    --Shak.

Associate

Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, n.

  1. A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.

  2. A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.

  3. One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.

  4. 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

Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. i.

  1. To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

  2. To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.
    --E. Darwin.

Associate

Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, a. [L. associatus, p. p.]

  1. 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.

  2. Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.

  3. (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
associate

mid-15c., from Latin associatus past participle of associare "join with," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + sociare "unite with," from socius "companion" (see social (adj.)). Related: Associated; associating. Earlier form of the verb was associen (late 14c.), from Old French associier "associate (with)."

associate

1530s, from associate (adj.).

associate

early 15c., "allied, connected, paired," from Latin associatus, past participle of associare (see associate (v.)).

Wiktionary
associate
  1. 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

  2. 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
associate

adj. having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status; "an associate member"; "an associate professor" [syn: associate(a)]

associate
  1. 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]

  2. keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn: consort, affiliate, assort]

  3. bring or come into association or action; "The churches consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: consociate]

associate
  1. n. a person who joins with others in some activity; "he had to consult his associate before continuing"

  2. a person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar]

  3. any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another; "first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate"

  4. a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies [syn: associate degree]

Wikipedia
Associate

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.