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Associate vs Associative - What's the difference?

associate | associative |

As adjectives the difference between associate and associative

is that associate is joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status while associative is pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.

As a noun associate

is a person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.

As a verb associate

is to join in or form a league, union, or association.

associate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
    • He is an associate editor.
  • Having partial status or privileges.
    • He is an associate member of the club.
  • Following or accompanying; concomitant.
  • (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
    • associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (associat)
  • (lb) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
  • (lb) To spend time socially; keep company.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • (lb) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
  • *(rfdate) (John Keats) (1795-1821)
  • *:I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
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  • To endorse.
  • *
  • (lb) To be associative.
  • To accompany; to keep company with.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.

    • Synonyms

    * join

    Antonyms

    * disassociate

    References

    * English heteronyms ----

    associative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.
  • such that, for any operands a, b, c , (a * b) * c = a * (b * c)
  • (computing) addressable by a key more complex than an integer index
    • Awk's associative arrays may be indexed by strings.
    Associative memories were once given considerable attention.

    Derived terms

    * antiassociative