Associatenoun

• 1

  slangAn associate's degree.

associateadj詞源 1/əˈsəʊʃi.ət/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  Having partial status or privileges.

  • He is an associate member of the club.
• 3

  Following or accompanying; concomitant.

• 4

  datedbiologynatural-sciencesConnected by habit or sympathy.

  • associate motions
  • 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.

associatenoun詞源 2/əˈsəʊʃi.ət/

• 1

  A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.

  • Allow me to introduce my business associates, Alice and Bob, who are senior VPs for ops and strategy, respectively.
  • Associates must wash hands before returning to work
• 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

  algebramathematicssciencesOne 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).

• 7

  A casual friend, acquaintance

associateverb詞源 3/əˈsəʊʃieɪt/

• 1

  To join in or form a league, union, or association.

• 2

  To spend time socially; keep company.

  • She associates with her coworkers on weekends.
  • Before the race he associated only with other skiers.
• 3

  To join as a partner, ally, or friend.

  • He associated his name with many environmental causes.
• 4

  To connect or join together; combine.

  • particles of gold associated with other substances
• 5

  To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.

  • I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
  • He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
• 6

  To endorse.

  • She refused to associate herself with the petition.
  • 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
• 7

  mathematicssciencesTo be associative.

• 8

  obsoleteTo accompany; to be in the company of.

  • Friends should associate friends in grief and woe