Participate vs Associate - What's the difference?
participate | associate |
To join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something).
(obsolete) To share, share in (something).
* 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:
(obsolete) To share (something) (with) others; to transfer (something) (to) or (unto) others.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , II:
(obsolete) Acting in common; participating.
* 1608 , , I. i. 101:
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.
In intransitive terms the difference between participate and associate
is that participate is to join in, to take part, to involve oneself ({{term|in}} something) while associate is to spend time socially; keep company.As a noun associate is
a person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.participate
English
Verb
(participat)- they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup [...].
- Make the Earth [...] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star.
Adjective
(-)- And, mutually participate , did minister / Unto the appetite and affection common / Of the whole body.
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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.}}