Associate vs. Link — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Associate and Link
ADVERTISEMENT
Compare with Definitions
Associate
To connect in the mind or imagination
"I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn" (John Keats).
Link
One of the rings or loops forming a chain.
Associate
To connect or involve with a cause, group, or partner
Wasn't she associated with the surrealists?.
Link
A unit in a connected series of units
Links of sausage.
One link in a molecular chain.
Associate
To correlate or connect logically or causally
Asthma is associated with air pollution.
ADVERTISEMENT
Link
A unit in a transportation or communications system.
Associate
To join in or form a league, union, or association
The workers associated in a union.
Link
A connecting element; a tie or bond
Grandparents, our link with the past.
Associate
To spend time socially; keep company
Associates with her coworkers on weekends.
Link
An association; a relationship
The Alumnae Association is my link to the school's present administration.
Associate
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.
Link
A causal, parallel, or reciprocal relationship; a correlation
Researchers have detected a link between smoking and heart disease.
Associate
An employee, especially one in a subordinate position,
Link
A cufflink.
Associate
A companion; a comrade.
Link
A unit of length used in surveying, equal to 0.01 chain, 7.92 inches, or about 20.12 centimeters.
Associate
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
Link
A rod or lever transmitting motion in a machine.
Associate
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
Link
(Computers)A graphical item or segment of text in a webpage or other electronic document that, when clicked, causes another webpage or section of the same webpage to be displayed
That newspaper's homepage includes links to numerous government resources. Also called hotlink, hyperlink.
Associate
Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status
An associate editor.
Link
A torch formerly used for lighting one's way in the streets.
Associate
Having partial status or privileges
An associate member of the club.
Link
To put together physically, as with links
Linked the rings to form a chain.
Associate
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
Link
To connect, relate, or associate
Linked the suspect to the crime.
Associate
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.
Link
To make or have a link to (another webpage or electronic document)
The blog links important news stories from across the web.
Associate
Having partial status or privileges.
He is an associate member of the club.
Link
To make a link in (a webpage or electronic document)
The teacher linked the class website to an online map.
Associate
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
Link
To be or become joined together physically
The molecules linked to form a polymer.
Associate
Connected by habit or sympathy.
Associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions
Link
To be or become connected, related, or associated
Their business has linked up with ours.
Associate
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
Link
To make or have a link to a webpage or electronic document
The shocking news story was linked to by many blogs. The article linked to photos of the damage.
Associate
Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
Link
To follow a link in a webpage or electronic document
With a click of the mouse, I linked to the museum's website.
Associate
A companion; a comrade.
Link
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
Associate
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
Link
One element of a chain or other connected series.
The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
The weakest link.
Associate
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
Link
Abbreviation of hyperlink
The link on the page points to the sports scores.
Associate
(algebra) 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).
Link
(computing) The connection between buses or systems.
A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
Associate
(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
Link
(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
Associate
(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
She associates with her coworkers on weekends.
Link
(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
Associate
To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
He associated his name with many environmental causes.
Link
(figurative) an individual person or element in a system
Associate
(transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
Particles of gold associated with other substances
Link
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
Associate
(transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
Link
A sausage that is not a patty.
Associate
To endorse.
Link
(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
Associate
(mathematics) To be associative.
Link
(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
Associate
To accompany; to be in the company of.
Link
(surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
Associate
To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.
Link
(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
Associate
To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
Link
(in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
Associate
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.
Link
(broadcasting) An introductory cue.
Associate
To accompany; to keep company with.
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
Link
(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
Associate
To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
Link
(transitive) To connect two or more things.
Associate
To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.
Link
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
My homepage links to my wife's.
Associate
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.
Link
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
Associate
Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.
Link
To post a hyperlink to.
Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
Associate
Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.
Link
(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
Associate
A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.
Link
(compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
Associate
A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.
Link
To meet with someone.
Associate
One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.
Link
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
Associate
Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.
The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it.
Link
A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
Associate
A person who joins with others in some activity;
He had to consult his associate before continuing
Link
A single ring or division of a chain.
Associate
A person who is frequently in the company of another;
Drinking companions
Comrades in arms
Link
Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
The link of brotherhood, by whichOne common Maker bound me to the kind.
And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
Associate
Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another;
First was the lightning and then its thunderous associate
Link
Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
Associate
A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
Link
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
Associate
Make a logical or causal connection;
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
Colligate these facts
I cannot relate these events at all
Link
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
Associate
Keep company with; hang out with;
He associates with strange people
She affiliates with her colleagues
Link
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; - applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
Associate
Bring or come into association or action;
The churches consociated to fight their dissolution
Link
Sausages; - because linked together.
Associate
Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status;
An associate member
An associate professor
Link
A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.
Link
A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; - usually in pl.
The windings or "links" of the Forth above and below Stirling are extremely tortuous.
Link
Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.
Golf may be played on any park or common, but its original home is the "links" or common land which is found by the seashore, where the short close tuft, the sandy subsoil, and the many natural obstacles in the shape of bents, whins, sand holes, and banks, supply the conditions which are essential to the proper pursuit of the game.
Link
Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played; a golf course.
Link
To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.
Link
To be connected.
No one generation could link with the other.
Link
The means of connection between things linked in series
Link
A fastener that serves to join or link;
The walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction
Link
The state of being connected;
The connection between church and state is inescapable
Link
A connecting shape
Link
A unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
Link
(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
Link
A channel for communication between groups;
He provided a liaison with the guerrillas
Link
A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
Link
An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
Link
Make a logical or causal connection;
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
Colligate these facts
I cannot relate these events at all
Link
Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;
Can you connect the two loudspeakers?
Tie the ropes together
Link arms
Link
Be or become joined or united or linked;
The two streets connect to become a highway
Our paths joined
The travelers linked up again at the airport
Link
Link with or as with a yoke;
Yoke the oxen together
Share Your Discovery
Previous Comparison
Creation vs. Invention
Next Comparison
Monocyte vs. Lymphocyte
