Association vs. Associate — What's the Difference?

The act of associating or being connected with

To connect in the mind or imagination

An organized body of people who have an interest, activity, or purpose in common; a society.

To connect or involve with a cause, group, or partner

A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations

To correlate or connect logically or causally

The act of expressing a link or connection between two things

To join in or form a league, union, or association

A correlation or causal connection

To spend time socially; keep company

(Chemistry) Any of various processes of combination, such as hydration, solvation, or complex-ion formation, depending on relatively weak chemical bonding.

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

(Ecology) A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.

An employee, especially one in a subordinate position,

(uncountable) The act of associating.

A companion; a comrade.

(countable) The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

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

(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).

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

A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

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

(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.

Having partial status or privileges

A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.

Following or accompanying; concomitant.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

Joined with another or others and having lower status.

Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.

Having partial status or privileges.

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

Following or accompanying; concomitant.

A formal organization of people or groups of people;

Connected by habit or sympathy.

The act of consorting with or joining with others;

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

The state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;

Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.

A social or business relationship;

A companion; a comrade.

The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;

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

A relation resulting from interaction or dependence;

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

(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

(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).

(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

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

(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.

To join as a partner, ally, or friend.

(transitive) To connect or join together; combine.

(transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.

To endorse.

(mathematics) To be associative.

To accompany; to be in the company of.

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.

To connect or place together in thought.

To accompany; to keep company with.

To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.

Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.

Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.

Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.

A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.

A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.

One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.

Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.

A person who joins with others in some activity;

A person who is frequently in the company of another;

Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another;

A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies

Make a logical or causal connection;

Keep company with; hang out with;

Bring or come into association or action;

Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status;