From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Associated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Associating}.] [L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion. See {Social}.]
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. --Macaulay.
4. To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.]
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Associated \As*so"ci*a'ted\, adjective Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined.
{Associated movements} (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. --Dunglison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: related to or accompanying; "Christmas and associated festivities" [syn: {connected}]
2: joined in some kind of relationship (as a colleague or ally or companion etc.); "a cabal of associated lawyers"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "associated": accessory, accompanying, accordant, affiliate, affiliated, agreeing, allied, assembled, associate, at one with, attendant, attending, banded together, bound, bracketed, cabalistic, coacting, coactive, coadunate, coincident, collaborative, collateral, collected, collective, collectivistic, collusive, combined, combining, common, communal, communistic, commutual, concerted, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring, confederate, confederated, conjoined, conjoint, conjugate, connected, consilient, conspiratorial, cooperant, cooperative, coordinate, copulate, corporate, correlated, correlative, coupled, coworking, enleagued, federate, federated, fellow, gathered, general, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, harmonious, implicated, in cahoots, in common, in league, in partnership, in with, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, joint, knotted, leagued, linked, married, matched, mated, meeting, merged, mutual, of that ilk, of that kind, paired, parallel, parasitic, partners with, popular, public, reciprocal, related, saprophytic, simultaneous, social, socialistic, societal, spliced, symbiotic, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, teamed, tied, twin, twinned, undivided, united, uniting, unseparated, wed, wedded, yoked
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