Association vs. Connection — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Association and Connection
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Association
The act of associating or being connected with
My parents disapproved of my association with my friends from across town.
Connection
The act of connecting.
Association
An organized body of people who have an interest, activity, or purpose in common; a society.
Connection
The state of being connected.
Association
A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations
My therapist helped me examine my association of food with comfort.
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Connection
One that connects; a link
Made a connection between the two pipes.
Association
The act of expressing a link or connection between two things
"The media's association of visa overstayers with illegality is so strong and common as to shape public attitudes towards them" (Junya Morooka).
Connection
An association or relationship
An obvious connection between the two crimes.
Association
A correlation or causal connection
There is a definite association of exercise with improved health.
Connection
The logical or intelligible ordering of words or ideas; coherence.
Association
(Chemistry) Any of various processes of combination, such as hydration, solvation, or complex-ion formation, depending on relatively weak chemical bonding.
Connection
Reference or relation to something else; context
In this connection, the agreement can be seen as a step toward peace.
Association
(Ecology) A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.
Connection
A person, especially one of influence or importance, with whom one is associated, as by kinship or common interests
Used her connections to land a job.
Association
(uncountable) The act of associating.
Connection
A conveyance or scheduled run providing continuing service between means of transportation
Missed my connection in Miami.
Association
(countable) The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
Connection
A physical link, such as by wire or fiber-optic cable, between two or more points in a telecommunications system
Established a connection to the internet.
Association
(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
Connection
A means or channel of communication
Couldn't hear due to the bad phone connection.
Association
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
Connection
A drug dealer.
Association
(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
Connection
A purchase of illegal drugs.
Association
A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.
Connection
(uncountable) The act of connecting.
Association
The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God.
Connection
The point at which two or more things are connected.
The connection between overeating and obesity
My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
Association
Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.
Words . . . must owe their powers association.
Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned?
Connection
A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
Association
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.
Connection
An established communications or transportation link.
Computers linked by a network connection
I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.
Association
A formal organization of people or groups of people;
He joined the Modern Language Association
Connection
(transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
Association
The act of consorting with or joining with others;
You cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association
Connection
A kinship relationship between people.
Association
The state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;
His association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break
Connection
An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business.
I have some connections in Lancashire.
Association
A social or business relationship;
A valuable financial affiliation
He was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team
Many close associations with England
Connection
(mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
Association
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;
Conditioning is a form of learning by association
Connection
Coherence; lack of disjointedness
Association
A relation resulting from interaction or dependence;
Flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear
The host is not always injured by association with a parasite
Connection
The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
Association
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
Connection
Sexual intercourse
Association
(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
Connection
(slang) A drug dealer.
Connection
The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; the act or process of bringing two things into contact; junction; union; as, the connection between church and state is inescapable; the connection of pipes of different diameters requires an adapter.
Connection
That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.
Connection
Any relationship between things or events; association; alliance; as, a causal connection between interest rates and stock prices.
He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect.
The eternal and inseparable connection between virtue and happiness.
Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things.
Connection
A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; - used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.
Connection
The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.
Men elevated by powerful connection.
At the head of a strong parliamentary connection.
Whose names, forces, connections, and characters were perfectly known to him.
Connection
Something that connects other objects.
Connection
Usually plural) an acquaintance or acquaintances who are influential or in a position of power and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship); as, he has powerful connections.
Connection
A communications channel; as, my cell phone had a bad connection.
Connection
A vehicle in which one may continue a journey after debarking from another vehicle; the departing vehicle of a connection{9}; as, my connection leaves four hours after my arrival; I missed my connection.
Connection
The scheduled arrival of one vehicle and departure of a second, sufficiently close in time and place to allow the departing vehicle serve as a means of continuing a journey begun or continued in the first vehicle; as, we can get a connection at Newark to continue on to Paris; - most commonly used of airplanes, trains, and buses arriving and departing at the same terminal.
Connection
The transfer of a passenger from one vehicle to another to continue a journey; as, the connection was made in Copenhagen; - most commonly of scheduled transportation on common carriers.
Connection
A vendor who can supply desired materials at a favorable price, or under conditions when other sources are unavailable; as, to get a bargain from one's connection in the jewelry trade; to have connections for the purchase of marijuana; - often used in the pl..
Connection
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.
Connection
A relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it);
There was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare
Connection
The state of being connected;
The connection between church and state is inescapable
Connection
An instrumentality that connects;
He soldered the connection
He didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers
Connection
(usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship);
He has powerful connections
Connection
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;
Conditioning is a form of learning by association
Connection
A connecting shape
Connection
A supplier (especially of narcotics)
Connection
Shifting from one form of transportation to another;
The plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta
Connection
The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication);
The joining of hands around the table
There was a connection via the internet
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