Rival vs Associate - What's the difference?
rival | associate |
A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
(obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
* (William Shakespeare)
Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
* Macaulay
To oppose or compete with.
To be equal to or to surpass another.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
* Dryden
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.
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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 rival and associate
is that rival is a competitor (person, team, company, etc) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor while associate is (slang) an associate's degree.As an adjective rival
is having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.As a verb rival
is to oppose or compete with.rival
English
Noun
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- If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
Derived terms
* rivalry * archrivalAdjective
(-)- rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
- The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.
Verb
- to rival somebody in love
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- to rival thunder in its rapid course
Anagrams
* ----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.}}
