Association vs. Forum — What's the Difference?

The act of associating or being connected with

The public square or marketplace of an ancient Roman city that was the assembly place for judicial activity and public business.

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

A public meeting place for open discussion.

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

A medium for open discussion or voicing of ideas, such as a newspaper, a radio or television program, or a website.

The act of expressing a link or connection between two things

A public meeting or presentation involving a discussion usually among experts and often including audience participation.

A correlation or causal connection

An area of legal authority; a jurisdiction.

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

A court of law or tribunal.

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

A place for discussion.

(uncountable) The act of associating.

A gathering for the purpose of discussion.

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

A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.

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

(Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.

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

(historical) A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.

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

A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

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

A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes.

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

A public meeting or assembly for open discussion

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

A public facility to meet for open discussion

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.

A place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece

A formal organization of people or groups of people;

The act of consorting with or joining with others;

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

A social or business relationship;

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

A relation resulting from interaction or dependence;

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

(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