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to associate

to associate

364 3.4
To link one thing in your mind to another
  • verb
  • /əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt/
translation icon : asociar con
  • Among women, greater levels of urbanicity were associated with lower odds of high blood pressure.
  • factors associated with
  • risks associated with
  • significantly associated with

Like, just burning entire towns that you wouldn't associate with hills.

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Examples

  • People who seek perfection often associate that perfection with success.

  • And people don't understand it because people always associate you with their thoughts.

  • Now this scale some of you may associate with heavy metal music.

  • And what we do is we associate with each word a number.

  • Creation of art is often associated with pain, and pain, as we know, is always associated with sleep.

  • OK, So what do you associate the word stoic with?

  • Watching him do this makes me so excited, because we're making our own meal, and I associate that with, like, everything that I love about him.

  • For the first research question, three primary themes were associated with parents' perceptions of students' school experiences.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Under ideal circumstances, amateur taxonomists can be mentored and associated with professional taxonomists, museums, or academic institutions.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Many people tend to associate the smell of fresh coffee with waking up in the morning.

Synonyms

to link
vsto associate
376 3.0

To show a connection between ideas or events

is about making mental associations as well as external connections
to connect
vsto associate
354 2.3

Show how two ideas or events are related

focuses on forming mental links rather than only proving external relations
to relate
vsto associate
317 2.2

To be connected or important to something

implies actively forming a mental or logical link rather than passive relation
to identify
vsto associate
81 2.8

Think of one thing as connected to another

involves making the link mentally rather than only labelling an existing tie
to correlate
vsto associate
73 5.8

To show that two things change together

is broader, covering one-way mental or causal links as well as mutual ones
to tie in
vsto associate
16 4.1

To connect to another idea or fact in a clear way

focuses on creating mental links, not just being related by circumstance
to interlink
vsto associate
4 4.5

Connect things so they depend on each other

is mainly about mental linking, not creating interdependent systems
to free-associate
vsto associate
  • Specialized
2 8.0

To think of ideas and memories without planning

is deliberate and logical rather than spontaneous or unconstrained
to link up
vsto associate
  • Informal
1 3.5

To connect facts or ideas to show a relationship

emphasizes internal mental linking rather than casual or practical joining
to colligate
vsto associate
  • Archaic
9.9

To join facts or observations to make a clear connection

focuses more on simple mental connections than on systematic compilation

Antonyms

To treat two things as separate and not related

Phrasal Verbs

to free-associate
  • Specialized
2 8.0

To think of ideas and memories without planning

Compounds

A university teacher who ranks above an assistant professor and below a full professor

3 3.2

A qualification that a college gives after about two years of study, shorter than a bachelor's degree

A two-year college degree that teaches practical skills for technical jobs

A two-year college degree in arts and general subjects that often allows transfer to a four-year university

A two-year college degree that prepares someone to be a nurse

How Related

to attribute
228 3.8
to connect
354 2.3
to associate
364 3.4
to link
376 3.0
to relate
317 2.2

Surface Forms

associate infinitive
associated past
associated past participle
associating present participle
associates third person singular

Morphology

associate = social (transparent) = soci + ate

The verb 'associate' is transparently derived from 'social' with the suffix '-ate', indicating an action related to making connections.

Etymology

Associate meaning to link ideas in the mind comes from the same root for 'join', so to associate two things is to 'join' them in your thoughts, and that is why we use the word for mental connections.