Alliance vs Associate - What's the difference?
alliance | associate |
(uncountable) The state of being allied.
(countable) The act of allying or uniting.
(countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
(countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
* C. J. Smith
* Mansel
(with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
(obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
Having partial status or privileges.
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
(biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.
A companion; a comrade.
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
(lb) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
(lb) To spend time socially; keep company.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
(lb) To connect or join together; combine.
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(lb) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
*(rfdate) (John Keats) (1795-1821)
*:I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
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*:He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
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(lb) To be associative.
To accompany; to keep company with.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
As nouns the difference between alliance and associate
is that alliance is the state of being allied while associate is a person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.As verbs the difference between alliance and associate
is that alliance is to connect or unite by alliance; to ally while associate is to join in or form a league, union, or association.As an adjective associate is
joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.alliance
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(alliance)Alternative forms
* alliaunceNoun
- matrimonial alliances'''; an '''alliance between church and state, or between two countries
- the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel
- the alliance between logic and metaphysics
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Synonyms
* (union by relationship in qualities) connection, affinity, union * (act of allying) union * (persons or parties allied) coalition, league, confederation, team (informal)Verb
(allianc)External links
* *Anagrams
* * ----associate
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Adjective
(-)- He is an associate editor.
- He is an associate member of the club.
- associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
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