associate
see also: Associate
Etymology
Associate
Noun
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see also: Associate
Etymology
From Latin associō.
Pronunciation- Noun and adjective:
associate (not comparable)
- Joined with another or others and having lower status.
- The associate editor is someone who has some experience in editing but not sufficient experience to qualify for a senior post.
- Having partial status or privileges.
- He is an associate member of the club.
- Following or accompanying; concomitant.
- (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
- associate motions ― motions that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions
- Portuguese: associado
- Russian: свя́занный
- Portuguese: associado
associate (plural associates)
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i ↗:
- The frowning lookes of fiery Tamburlaine,
That with his terrour and imperious eies,
Commands the hearts of his aſſociates, […]
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A companion; a comrade.
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
- (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
- See also Thesaurus:associate
- Russian: колле́га
- German: Weggefährte
- Portuguese: colega
- Russian: компаньо́н
- Spanish: compañero
- Russian: член-корреспонде́нт
- Spanish: asociado
associate (associates, present participle associating; simple past and past participle associated)
- (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
- She associates with her coworkers on weekends.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC ↗:
- As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
- (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- He associated his name with many environmental causes.
- (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
- particles of gold associated with other substances
- Synonyms: attach, join, put together, unite, Thesaurus:join
- (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- 1819 September 21, John Keats, letter to John Hamilton Reynolds:
- I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
- 1819 September 21, John Keats, letter to John Hamilton Reynolds:
- (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
- (mathematics) To be associative.
- (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:
- Friends should associate friends in grief and woe
- German: vereinigen, zu einem Verband zusammenschließen
- Portuguese: associar-se a
- Russian: соединя́ться
- Spanish: asociar
- French: fréquenter
- German: gemeinsam Zeit verbringen, in Gesellschaft sein
- Spanish: frecuentar, alternar, tratar, codearse, relacionarse
- German: zuordnen, anschließen
- Portuguese: associar-se a
- Russian: присоединя́ться
- Spanish: asociarse
- German: verbinden, verknüpfen
- Portuguese: associar
- Spanish: asociar
- German: assoziieren
- Portuguese: associar
Associate
Noun
associate (plural associates)
- (slang) An associate's degree.
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