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/əsˈoʊsiət/ /əsˈoʊsiˌeɪt/ /əsˈoʊʃiət/ /əsˈoʊʃiˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Associate v. t. (past & past part. associated; pres. part. associating)

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."

4.

To accompany; to keep company with. (Obs.) "Friends should associate friends in grief and woe."

Associate 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.

noun

Associate 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."

Synonyms: Companion; mate; fellow; friend; ally; partner; coadjutor; comrade; accomplice.

adjective

Associate adj.

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."

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.

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Etymology of 'Associate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Associate" Quotes from Famous Books

... that Mr. Wheelock was accounted one of the leading preachers and divines of his day. Both as a pastor, and the associate of the eminent men who were prominent in the great revival which marked the middle of the last century, his labors were crowned with large success. Rev. Dr. Burroughs, who knew him intimately, says: ...

— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith

... insects, overrun with rats, and the effluvia of which is easily noticeable at a distance of half a mile, are not uncommon and suggest their own condemnation. While it is not possible to directly associate any particular disease with such a condition of the slaughter-house, yet such conditions must result in a rapid development of putrefactive bacteria, in the deposit by flies of different micro-organisms brought from the festering heaps of offal and manure ...

— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden

... hold his own with any man; and Captain William Colton, who had been with me in Tennessee; Robert Lamborn, who had studied science in Germany, and was now a railroad man, and many more who are recorded in my pamphlet, "Three Thousand Miles in a Railway Car," and my old associate, Caspar Souder, of the Bulletin. This excursion was destined, in connection with this pamphlet, to have a marvellous effect on ...

— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... be dangerous to his health. He was so "obscure" that he lived for nearly three years as the guest of the French ambassador in London. He was so "obscure" that he was known at the court of Elizabeth. He was so "obscure" that he was a friend of Sir Philip Sidney, and an intimate associate of Dyer, Fulk Greville, and the chief wits of his age. He was so "obscure" that he was allowed, as a distinguished foreigner, to lecture at Oxford, and to hold a public disputation on the Aristotelian philosophy ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... power of church life, as well as of personal life, centres about personal items. Without seeking to arrange them chronologically or even to associate them topically, I wish to gather up in this chapter some of the incidents that do not well belong in the preceding chapters. Some of them it is easy to locate, others have lost their setting, as the years have gone by, and stand out with ...

— Sixty years with Plymouth Church • Stephen M. Griswold

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