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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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... vitality, known as "gummata," with a tendency to break down or ulcerate, may form in almost any part of the body, and the damage that occurs is considerable indeed. Various diseases result which the lay mind would not associate with syphilis, but it would be difficult to overestimate the resultant diseases that may occur in any organ of ...
— Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) • Committee Of The Board Of Health
... moved onward in his place with a careless air, listening as he went to the service for the dead. As soon as he had passed the door, his miserable associate was carried out; and the crowd beheld the rest. Barnaby would have mounted the steps at the same time, but he was restrained, as he was to ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... than those of a pecuniary nature, on both sides of the Atlantic, is to be ascribed more to the influence of joint-stock banks and manufacturing and railway companies, to the workings, in short, of what is called the principle of "associate action," than to any other one cause ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh
... The associate in New York proposed to Bullion the purchase of a controlling interest in a railroad; and Bullion, believing that the depression had nearly reached its limit, and that affairs would soon take a turn, agreed ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various
... myself, why not? Then I thought Dr. Rendall over. Also middle height, a moustache, and no particular accent. But then again, if I put on an accent, why not he? Then I thought over what I had learned of the laird. A cousin of the doctor's, a "damned queer fish," almost the only associate of this couple, and hard up. Ought I to go straight off ...
— The Man From the Clouds • J. Storer Clouston


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