associate

[əˈsoʊsieɪt]

Definition:
1. To make a connection between people or things in your mind.
2. To spend time with somebody, especially a person or people that somebody else does not approve of.
3. A person who joins with others in some activity.

Use 'associate' in a sentence:

1. "We thought we would see differences based on the housing types," said the lead author of the study, Julie Robinson, an associate professor of medicine at the university.
2. This courtly poetry came out of the idea of chivalry and courtly love that you might associate with knights in shining armor.
3. He is closely associated in the public mind with horror movies.
4. Sharing our experiences in an authentic way to connect with other people is what makes us interesting, says associate professor Michael Pirson.
5. He will remain affiliated with the firm as a special associate director.
6. Get rid of all cigarettes and ashtrays and other paraphernalia associated with smoking.
7. The discovery caused a sensation, people associate the sea eel with live animals, but also did not express any doubt.
8. Girls' attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not.
9. Many of his Greenwich Village associates thought Dylan had sold out to commercialism.
10. Replacing the term "opponent" with "associate" could be an ideal way to start.
11. People started to associate the soup with feet; they began to imagine the soup smelled like feet.
12. "It's like how pilots train in a flight simulator," said Raymond Mar, an associate professor of psychology at York University, in Toronto, who has collaborated with Oatley.
13. They offered me money if I would betray my associates.
14. "The evidence for kitelifting is non-existent," says Willeke Wendrich, an associate professor of Egyptology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
15. I don't like you associating with those people.
16. Household Garbage And Wastewater Associate Development System Engineering.
17. He abhors the wheeling-and-dealing associated with conventional political life.
18. We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else we're doing.
19. You will compromise your good name if you associate to these bad companions.
20. Through science we've got the idea of associating progress with the future.
21. The dictionary meaning of the term "associate" is "colleague"; "friend"; "companion".
22. Rap groups have been barred from large musical events because they are associated with vandalism.
23. The press feels the need to associate itself with the green movement.
24. They were taught to associate the grub with a particular color.
25. These symptoms are particularly associated with migraine headaches.
26. She didn't want to associate with the likes of me.
27. Most people are reluctant to see themselves as being creative because they associate creativity with complexity.
28. I haven't been associated with the project over the last year.
29. Parasitism is a kind of predator-prey relationship in which one organism, the parasite, derives its food at the expense of its symbiotic associate, the host.
30. You can also associate teams of people with the group.
31. They were part of the black box associated with high-flyer management development.
32. The sport has long been associated with illegal wagers and unsavoury characters.
33. Instead, Riskey, the company's research and development head, would hope they associate the brand with the new world of global communications and business.
34. We use a lot of ingredients that people wouldn't perhaps associate as British, but are presented in a British way.
35. She applied for associate membership last year.
36. Dogs were also associated with healing in the ancient world.
37. Salaries and associated costs have risen substantially.
38. She possessed the vibrant personality that is so often popularly associated with Spanish women.
39. Patients may not receive the tender, loving care once associated with a hospital stay.
40. "We're playing the merit game," acknowledges Tom Lancaster, associate dean for undergraduate education.
41. Mr Lin is associate director of the Institute.
42. According to Valerie Gauthier, associate dean at HEC Paris, the key lies in the process by which MBA programmes recruit their students.
43. He entered the firm as a junior associate.
44. I always associate the smell of baking with my childhood.
45. This syndrome is associated with frequent coughing.
46. Mr. Lin is associate director of the Institute.
47. What would they think if they knew that they were associating with a murderer?
48. He no longer wished to be associated with the party's policy on education.
49. Genetic abnormalities are more often associated with faults in paternal DNA than in maternal DNA.
50. The British job of Lecturer corresponds roughly to the US Associate Professor.
51. They disapproved of her dancing at discos and associating with homosexuals.
52. Both groups share two attributes normally associated with vertebrates.
53. The meanings we associate with the phrase will change accordingly.
54. Such programmes lead to an associate degree.
55. The dictionary meaning of the term "associate" is "colleague" ; "friend" ; "companion".
56. A former associate of Mr. Pierce's was among the project's boosters.