associate adj : having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status; "an associate member"; "an associate professor" [syn: associate(a)] n
1. a person who joins with others in some activity; "he had to consult his associate before continuing"
2. a person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar]
3. any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another; "first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate"
4. a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies [syn: associate degree}] v
5. 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" [syn: tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple]
6. keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn: consort, affiliate, assort]
7. bring or come into association or action; "The churches consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: consociate]

Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. i.
1. To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
2. To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body. --E. Darwin.

Associate \As*so"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Associated; p. pr. & vb. n. Associating.] [L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion.

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