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Association   /əsˌoʊsiˈeɪʃən/  /əsˌoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Association

noun
1.
A formal organization of people or groups of people.
2.
The act of consorting with or joining with others.
3.
The state of being connected together as in memory or imagination.  Antonym: disassociation.
4.
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.  Synonyms: connection, connexion.
5.
A social or business relationship.  Synonyms: affiliation, tie, tie-up.  "He was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team" , "Many close associations with England"
6.
A relation resulting from interaction or dependence.  "The host is not always injured by association with a parasite"
7.
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding.
8.
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species.



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"Association" Quotes from Famous Books



... by day, the miles unrolled behind them. Always Roaring Bill faced straight north. For a week he kept on tirelessly, and a consuming desire to know how far he intended to go began to take hold of her. But she would not ask, even when daily association dulled the edge of her resentment, and she found it hard to keep up her hostile attitude, to nurse bitterness against a man who remained serenely unperturbed, and who, for all his apparent lawlessness, treated her as a ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... lecturer on this foundation will be Mr. E.C. Stedman, of New York, the second, Professor Jebb, of Cambridge (Eng.). Another lectureship has been instituted by Mr. Eugene Levering with the object of promoting the purposes of the Young Men's Christian Association. The first lecturer on this foundation was Rev. Dr. Broadus, ...
— The History Of University Education In Maryland • Bernard Christian Steiner
... station, they must either penetrate the heart of the town, or follow the dark streets of the outskirts. In the latter case, their association would arouse surprise and comment, but in the throng, reasonable safety might be expected. Once in the station, they might hope to pass the hour of waiting in obscurity, since that was the last place that a search ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis
... right met with formidable checks. There are two stern facts—facts which it does us all good to remember—which generally lie in the path of repentance, and look like crouching lions to the remorseful soul. First, the fact that we become so entangled by habit and circumstance, so enslaved by association and custom, that the very atmosphere around us seems to have become impregnated with a poison which we cannot cease to breathe; secondly, the fact that "in the physical world there is no forgiveness of sins;" to abandon our evil courses is not to escape ...
— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar
... way of securing a full head of interest and enthusiasm with from five to ten or twelve pupils in a school. The classes are too small and the number of children too limited to permit the organization of proper games and plays, or a reasonable variety of association through mingling together. ...
— New Ideals in Rural Schools • George Herbert Betts


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