Familiar vs Associated - What's the difference?
familiar | associated |
Known to one.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Acquainted.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Intimate or friendly.
* Shakespeare
Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
* Byron
(obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
(obsolete) A close friend.
*, II.i.4.2:
An attendant spirit, often in animal form.
(associate)
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.
* (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=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To endorse.
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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 an adjective familiar
is known to one.As a noun familiar
is a member of one's family or household.As a verb associated is
past tense of associate.familiar
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
- Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar.
- (Camden)
- familiar feuds
Synonyms
* (acquainted) acquainted * close, friendly, intimate, personal * (inappropriately intimate or friendly) cheeky, fresh, impudentAntonyms
* (known to one) unfamiliar, unknown * (acquainted) unacquainted * (intimate) cold, cool, distant, impersonal, standoffish, unfriendlyDerived terms
* overfamiliar * familiarity * familiarlyNoun
(en noun)- a friend of mine, that finding a receipt in Brassavola, would needs take hellebore in substance, and try it on his own person; but had not some of his familiars come to visit him by chance, he had by his indiscretion hazarded himself; many such I have observed.
- The witch’s familiar was a black cat.
External links
* ----associated
English
Verb
(head)Statistics
*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
(associat)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.}}