<B>associate, </B>noun, adjective., verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating,</B> noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to connect in thought (with). <BR> <I>Ex. We associate turkey with Thanksgiving.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to join as a companion, partner, or friend. <BR> <I>Ex. He is associated with his sons in business.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to join; combine in action; unite. <BR> <I>Ex. The action of the stream had associated the gold particles with the sand.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be friendly or keep company (with). <BR> <I>Ex. Do not associate with bad companions.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to combine for a common purpose. <BR> <I>Ex. When bad men combine, good men must associate (Edmund Burke).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a thing usually connected with another. <DD><B> 2. </B>companion, partner, or friend. <BR> <I>Ex. I am one of his associates at the store.</I> (SYN) ally, colleague. <DD><B> 3. </B>a member of an association or institution without the rights and privileges of full membership. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>joined with another or others. (SYN) allied. <DD><B> 2. </B>admitted to some, but not all, rights and privileges. <BR> <I>Ex. He has been an associate member of the club and will be made a full member this fall.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having a rank next to the highest in its class. <BR> <I>Ex. He was an associate editor of the paper.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>united in the same group or category. (SYN) concomitant. </DL>
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<B>associated state,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a former colony or protectorate granted complete local autonomy in domestic affairs but under the charge of the colonial power in defense and foreign relations. </DL>
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<B>Associate in Arts,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a degree given by a college or junior college to a person who has completed a two-year course of study. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who has this degree. </DL>
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<B>associate professor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially U.S. and Canada.) a college or university teacher ranking next below a professor and above an assistant professor. </DL>
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<B>associateship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the position or office of an associate. </DL>
<B>association, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a group of people joined together for some purpose; society. <BR> <I>Ex. Will you join the young people's association at our church?</I> (SYN) club. (Abbr:) assn. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of associating or the condition of being associated. <BR> <I>Ex. Association of ideas is an important part of thinking. I look forward to my association with the counselors I will have at camp.</I> (SYN) alliance, union, combination, relation. <DD><B> 3. </B>companionship, partnership, or friendship. <BR> <I>Ex. The three old friends had enjoyed a close association over many years.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>idea or object connected with another idea in thought; mental connection or union between an object and ideas that have some relation to it. <BR> <I>Ex. What association do you make with the color red? Words being arbitrary must owe their powers to association, and have the influence, and that only, which custom has given them (Samuel Johnson).</I> </DL>
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<B>associational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with association. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with an association. </DL>
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<B>association area,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the part of the brain that brings together the impulses from the sensory areas, sorts them, and sends them to the motor area. <BR> <I>Ex. Some sort of relationship, though certainly not a simple one, exists between the size and development of the association areas and what we call mental ability (Beals and Hoijer).</I> </DL>
<B>associationism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Psychology.) the theory that the laws of the association of ideas are the fundamental laws of mental action. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Fourierism.</B> noun <B>associationist.</B> </DL>
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<B>associationistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with associationism or associationists. <BR> <I>Ex. associationistic psychology.</I> </DL>
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<B>association of ideas,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) the tendency of a sensation, perception, feeling, volition, or thought to recall to consciousness others which formerly coexisted in consciousness with it or which are similar to it. </DL>
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<B>associative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>tending to associate. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with association. <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with the associative law. <BR> <I>Ex. an associative operation, associative sets.</I> adv. <B>associatively.</B> </DL>
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<B>associative law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) a law stating that the combinations by which two numbers are added or multiplied will not change their sum or product. (Examples:) 2 + (3 + 5) gives the same sum as (2 + 3) + 5; (2 X 3) X 5 gives the same product as 2 X (3 X 5). </DL>
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<B>associative memory</B> or <B>storage,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a computer memory whose data locations are made accessible by its contents; content-addressable memory. <BR> <I>Ex. Associative memories can be rated by their storage density (Michael F. Deering).</I> </DL>
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<B>associator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a person or thing that joins in association. <DD><B> b. </B>a confederate; companion. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of an association. </DL>
<B>assoluta, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>designating a rank in an opera or ballet company higher than that of prima donna or prima ballerina; absolute. <BR> <I>Ex. prima ballerina assoluta.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=solo.</B> </DL>
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<B>assonance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>resemblance in sound of words or syllables. (Example:) W<I>a</I>ken lords and l<I>a</I>dies g<I>a</I>y. <DD><B> 2. </B>a substitute for rhyme in which the vowels are alike but the consonants are different. (Examples:) <I>brave-vain, lone-show, man-hat, penitent-reticence.</I> </DL>
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<B>assonanced, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by assonance. </DL>
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<B>assonant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> having to do with or characterized by assonance. <DD><I>noun </I> a word or syllable forming an assonance with another. </DL>
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<B>assonantal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with assonance. </DL>
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<B>assort, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to arrange by kinds; distribute into groups by sorts; sort out; classify. <BR> <I>Ex. He assorted the books alphabetically.</I> (SYN) arrange. <DD><B> 2. </B>to furnish with various sorts. <BR> <I>Ex. The grocer assorts his stock to meet the varied demands of his customers.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to agree in sort or kind; fall into a class or group (with). <BR> <I>Ex. the two kinds assort well. These buttons do not assort with the samples on the cards.</I> (SYN) match, suit. <DD><B> 2. </B>to associate or keep company (with). <BR> <I>Ex. He has always assorted with men of his own age.</I> </DL>
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<B>assortative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that sorts out; selective. <BR> <I>Ex. The result of dating, courting, being engaged may be assortative mating, or the marriage of persons ... that are alike in many important characteristics (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> </DL>
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<B>assorted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>selected so as to be of different kinds; various. <BR> <I>Ex. She served assorted cakes.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>arranged by kinds; classified. <BR> <I>Ex. There were socks assorted by size on the shelf.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>suited to one another; matched. <BR> <I>Ex. They are a poorly assorted couple, always quarreling.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>including various kinds; miscellaneous. <BR> <I>Ex. an assorted collection of books.</I> (SYN) diverse, heterogeneous. </DL>
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<B>assortment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of sorting out or classifying. <BR> <I>Ex. The assortment of so many books would take a long time.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a collection of various kinds. <BR> <I>Ex. We have these curtains in an assortment of colors.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a group or class. </DL>
<B>asst.</B> or <B>Asst.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> assistant. </DL>
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<B>assuage, </B>transitive verb, <B>-suaged,</B> <B>-suaging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to calm or soothe (angry or excited feelings); make less intense. <BR> <I>Ex. He did all he could to assuage her fears.</I> (SYN) mitigate, soften, allay. <DD><B> 2. </B>to make (physical or mental pain) milder or easier; relieve or lessen. <BR> <I>Ex. Aspirin assuages pain.</I> (SYN) alleviate. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to satisfy; appease; quench (appetites or desires). <BR> <I>Ex. A drink of water will assuage your thirst.</I> noun <B>assuager.</B> </DL>
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<B>assuasive, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> soothing. <BR> <I>Ex. Music her soft assuasive voice applies (Alexander Pope).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a soothing remedy. </DL>
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<B>assume, </B>verb, <B>-sumed,</B> <B>-suming.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to take for granted without actual proof; suppose. <BR> <I>Ex. He assumed that the train would be on time.</I> (SYN) presume. <DD><B> 2. </B>to take upon oneself; undertake (an office or responsibility). <BR> <I>Ex. to assume leadership. He assumed the responsibility for planning the picnic.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to take on; put on. <BR> <I>Ex. The problem has assumed a new form.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to pretend. <BR> <I>Ex. Although he saw the accident, he assumed ignorance of it.</I> (SYN) feign, simulate. <DD><B> 5. </B>to claim for oneself; appropriate; usurp. <BR> <I>Ex. The king's wicked brother tried to assume the throne.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to adopt. <BR> <I>Ex. to assume a new partner.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be arrogant; claim more than is due; presume. adj. <B>assumable.</B> adv. <B>assumably.</B> noun <B>assumer.</B> </DL>
