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Associating

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.

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associating

vb. (present participle of associate English)

Usage examples of "associating".

The idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed.

By associating a friend and a fellow-soldier to the labors of government, Diocletian, in a time of public danger, provided for the defence both of the East and of the West.

They never dreamed of associating the moral and intellectual emancipation of the individual with the conscious fulfillment of the American national purpose and with the patient and open-eyed individual and social discipline thereby demanded.

By associating various mathematical problems with his constructive exercises, the teacher can frequently cause the pupil to transfer in some degree his primary interest in manual training to the associated work in arithmetic.

If however voice is not characteristically impact, but is simply air, two categories will be involved: voice is significant, and the one category will not be sufficient to account for this significance without associating with a second.

In Rome in the early years, Christians often paraded their ignorance and lack of education, associating independent philosophical thinking with the sin of pride.

Does associating with the godly cause one to lose points in the film community?

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.

As to the young birds and mammals whom we continually see associating, sympathy--not love--attains a further development in their associations.

He too looked forward to associating once more with the few friends he had in London.

Totty and to feel an uneasiness about her associating with his children.

The girls are not to blame if they are as vapid and uninteresting as the ideal girls they have been associating with in the books they have read.

The habit of associating morose sentiments with any particular kind of scenery only shows that the sources of the sullenness arose in similar visible circumstances.