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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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... five preceding poets, Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake, as the most typical and the most interesting of the writers who proclaimed the dawn of Romanticism in the eighteenth century. With them we associate a group of minor writers, whose works were immensely popular in their own day. The ordinary reader will pass them by, but to the student they are all significant as expressions of very different phases of the ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... Captain Tilton took up his residence at a fashionable boarding house, and I seldom had any communication with him. I supposed, as a matter of course, that he would soon enter on another voyage, and I should go with him. In the meantime, having provided me with a temporary home, he left me to associate with whom I pleased, and struggle single-handed against the many temptations to which a young sailor in a strange maritime city ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper

... when the grand barouche came to carry her off into splendour, she fainted in the arms of her friend, who was indeed scarcely less affected than the good-natured girl. Amelia loved her like a daughter. During eleven years the girl had been her constant friend and associate. The separation was a very painful one indeed to her. But it was of course arranged that Mary was to come and stay often at the grand new house whither Mrs. Osborne was going, and where Mary was sure she would never be so happy as she had been in their humble cot, as Miss Clapp called ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... left to summon the doctor of the mayoralty, whose office it is to examine bodies after decease, and who is expressly named "the doctor of the dead." M. Noirtier could not be persuaded to quit his grandchild. At the end of a quarter of an hour M. d'Avrigny returned with his associate; they found the outer gate closed, and not a servant remaining in the house; Villefort himself was obliged to open to them. But he stopped on the landing; he had not the courage to again visit the death chamber. The two doctors, therefore, entered the room alone. Noirtier was near the bed, pale, ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... so because of the dastardly crime committed by them, and the high social relations of the latter. They came from Wichita, and have been in prison almost fifteen years. McNutt is a fine artist and painter. He had his paint shop in Wichita, and was doing a very successful business. Winner was his associate, and the two plotted and carried into execution the following horrible crime: McNutt got his life insured for $5,000, his wife being his beneficiary. It was a dark, stormy night when McNutt and Winner enticed into this paint shop an unsuspecting mutual friend. Here they murdered him in cold blood. ...
— The Twin Hells • John N. Reynolds


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