Associate vs College - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
(politics) An electoral college.
An academic institution.
An institution of higher education.
(US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
(attributively, chiefly, US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.
(Canada) A postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees, instead offering vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
(chiefly, UK) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
(US, New Zealand) A specialized division of a university.
(UK, in the names of private schools) A secondary school.
(UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level (in the UK, typically teaching those aged 16 to 19); sixth form.
(New Zealand) A high school or secondary school.
(UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
(Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, which may be independent or have its own tutors but is not involved in teaching.
As nouns the difference between associate and college
is that associate is (slang) an associate's degree while college is academy.associate
English
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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Synonyms
* joinAntonyms
* disassociateReferences
* English heteronyms ----college
English
(wikipedia college)Noun
(en noun)- College''' of Cardinals'', '''''College of Surgeons
- These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
- Pembroke College''', Cambridge''; ''Balliol '''College''', Oxford''; ''University '''College , London
- College of Engineering
- Eton College