Associate

What do we mean by associate?

To connect in the mind or imagination. intransitive verb

To connect or involve with a cause, group, or partner. intransitive verb

To correlate or connect logically or causally. intransitive verb

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

To spend time socially; keep company. intransitive verb

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

A companion; a comrade. noun

One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance. noun

A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges. noun

Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status. adjective

Having partial status or privileges. adjective

Following or accompanying; concomitant. adjective

To join in company, as a friend, companion, partner, confederate, or the like; join or connect intimately; unite; combine; link: followed by with (formerly sometimes by to): as, to associate others with us in business or in an enterprise; particles of earthy matter associated with other substances.

To keep company with; attend.

To make an associate of; admit to association or membership: with to: as, “he was associated to the Royal Academy,”

To have intercourse; be an associate or associates: implying intimacy: as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

To join in or form a confederacy or association.

In general, to unite, as in action, with a person or thing, or to coexist in organic dependence, as the parts of the body.

In logic, a unit not contained in the collection which is paired with each unit, of the collection so as to make a pair distinguished from every pair consisting of the associate and a unit not a member of the collection. noun

In law: An officer in each of the superior courts of common law in England whose duty it was to keep the records of his court, to attend its nisi prius sittings, and to enter the verdict, make up the postea, and deliver the record to the party entitled thereto. noun

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

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.

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).

Words that are spelled similarly to associate:
associate, associated, dissociate, associative, associates, associable, assonate, insociate, associator, sociate, reassociate.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word associate:
academician, professor, professorship, provost, dean, editor, pastor, degrees, justice, icc, curator, counsel, conductor, lecturer, supreme, degree, emeritus, director, sociology, producer, bachelor, certificate, administrator, faculty, diploma, graduate, nursing, sciences, membership, chair, presbyterian, editorial, visiting, harvard, science, psychology, full, stanford, institute, economics, journal, assistant, biology, department, university, physics, fellow, yale, affiliate, firm, applied, arts, laboratory, attorney, reformed, medicine, tenure, judge, appeals, chemistry, berkeley, studies, programs, court, member, undergraduate, vice, clinical.

Words that rhyme with associate:
state, rate, date, plate, advocate, appropriate, appreciate, mitigate, great, propagate, facilitate, accommodate, articulate, elaborate, vacillate, mandate, estate, conflate, weight, abrogate, anticipate, repudiate, emulate, intimate, ameliorate, separate, alleviate, predicate, innate, obviate, exacerbate, deliberate, obfuscate, abate, mate, gate, disseminate, consummate, slate, indicate, emanate, create, elucidate, contemplate, adequate, trait, straight, resonate, delineate, initiate, incorporate, postulate, dedicate, estimate, integrate, assimilate, delegate, extrapolate, fate, reiterate, coordinate, precipitate, corroborate, collaborate, gait, manipulate, evaluate, desolate, late, designate, alternate, update, rait, collate, surrogate, abdicate, cultivate, procrastinate, freight, commiserate, consolidate, wait, moderate, arrogate, spate, relate, debate, demonstrate, deprecate, stipulate, inculcate, denigrate, celebrate, dissipate, graduate, exonerate, communicate, subordinate, negate, compensate.

Adjectives that are often used to describe associate:
close, former, senior, old, closest, intimate, young, political, free, time, longtime, early, junior, foreign, common, year, constant, chief, professional, female, younger, paired, principal, fit, worthy, frequent, clinical, late, active, postdoctoral, editorial, honorary, literary, male, able, faithful, loyal, lifelong, congenial, valuable, pastoral, distinguished, beloved, inseparable, confidential, dangerous, youthful, familiar, onetime, learned, artistic, habitual, agreeable, brilliant, criminal, delightful, level.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective associate:
professor, editor, justice, director, members, member, learning, producer, justices, dean, professors, membership, editors, judge, judges, pastor, counsel, degrees, programs, degree, directors, task, status, minister, professorship, secretary, publisher, curator, producers, fellow, companies, administrator, superintendent, principal, company, broker, list, pastors, president, deans, lists, architect, conductor, commissioner, manager, teachers, provost, memberships, tasks, librarian, architects, nurses, nurse, partner, superintendents, campus, researcher, chief, teacher, ministers, professionals, warden, lecturer, staff, coed, editorship, scientist, general, chair, rabbi, commissioners, engineer, partners, brokers, recall, chairman, graduates, gods, licensee.

Words that sound like associate:
associate, associates, associate's, associator, assisted, dissociate, acescent, assiette, assist, assistant, assessment, assassinate, associated, assessed, asist, assisi, assistent, associating, assonate, sociate, consociate, roseate, assesses, isolette, exocet, assassin, assasin, assassins, sci, assessing, assyria, acedia, unseat, azusa, asiya, asseverate, assia, askia, acacias, acea, lcc, dissociates, asencio, astolat, associable, ammoniate, assassino, icist, assignat, sosia.