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Associate   /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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"Associate" Quotes from Famous Books



... wield my sword yet." And he raised it up, and pointing it at the breast of the fallen wretch, who lay groaning at his feet—"We must secure him," said the Colonel; "and, at the same time, be on our guard against his cowardly associate. If he could walk, I would know how to act with him; but I am not going to carry the base carrion. Indeed, my arm bleeds, and is getting stiff; otherwise I would dispatch him where he lies, and save the ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton
... colossal statue of the Pope in bronze. When this was finished in 1508, and put before the Church of St. Petronio, Michael Angelo returned to Florence. He had not made friends in Bologna; his forbidding manner did not encourage others to associate with him; but we now know from his letters that he had great trials. His family was poor, and all relied on him; indeed, his life was ...
— A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture - Painting • Clara Erskine Clement
... system continued under another name, with a directing minority composed of exceptional men on the one hand, and a majority composed of directed men on the other. But in the minds of many socialistic thinkers the simplicity of the situation is obscured by the vagueness of the ideas which they associate with the phrase "the state." For them these ideas are like a fog, into which private capitalism disappears, and in which the forces represented by it lose all definite character. The state, however, is in reality nothing but a collection of individuals; and if the state, besides ...
— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock
... expression are rendered possible only by the fact that our minds are always ready to compromise and to take the part for the whole. We associate a number of ideas with any given object, and if a few of the most characteristic of these are put before us we take the rest as read, jump to a conclusion and realise the whole. If we did not conduct our thought ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler
... was approaching us, walking alone from the direction of the House, and my terrible associate was standing under a lamp-post still with his hand in ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various


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