Definition of "associate"

associate

/əˈsəʊʃieɪt/

adjective
not comparable
1. Joined with another or others and having lower status.
2. Having partial status or privileges.
3. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
4. (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
  Quotations
  These associate ideas are gradually formed into habits of acting together, by frequent repetition, while they are yet separately obedient to the will; as is evident from the difficulty we experience in gaining so exact an idea of the front of St. Paul's church, as to be able to delineate it with accuracy, or in recollecting a poem of a few pages.
  1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, page 36
noun
plural associates
1. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
  Quotations
  The frowning lookes of fiery Tamburlaine,That with his terrour and imperious eies,Commands the hearts of his aſſociates, […]
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act IIII, scene i
2. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
3. A companion; a comrade.
4. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
5. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
6. (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).
verb
third-person singular simple present associates, present participle associating, simple past and past participle associated
1. (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
2. (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
  Quotations
  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.
  1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company
3. (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
4. (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
5. (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
  Quotations
  I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
  1819 September 21, John Keats, letter to John Hamilton Reynolds
  He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
  1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II‎
  The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically with the rolling stock by a common colour scheme.
  1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714
  Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.
  2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist
6. (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
  Quotations
  Mr. President, I rise to associate myself with the remarks of my senior Senator from Louisiana who has led this fight successfully for many years
  1999 August 4-5, Congress, “Pt. 14”, in Congressional Record, volume 145, page 19343
7. (mathematics) To be associative.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.
  Quotations
  Friends should associate friends in grief and woe
  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, [Act V, scene iii]

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