different between associate vs associable

English

Etymology

From Latin associ?.

Pronunciation

• Verb: (these pronunciations can also apply to the noun and adjective)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?s?'shi?t, ?s?'si?t IPA^(key): /??s???ie?t/, /??s??sie?t/
  • (General American) enPR: ?s?'shi?t, ?s?'si?t IPA^(key): /??so??ie?t/, /??so?sie?t/
• Noun and adjective:
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?s?'shi?t, ?s?'si?t IPA^(key): /??s???i.?t/, /??s??si.?t/
  • (General American) enPR: ?s?'shi?t, ?s?'si?t IPA^(key): /??so??i.?t/, /??so?si.?t/
• Hyphenation: as?so?ci?ate

Adjective

associate (not comparable)

1. Joined with another or others and having lower status.

2. Having partial status or privileges.

3. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
4. (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.

Translations

Noun

associate (plural associates)

1. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
2. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
3. A companion; a comrade.
4. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
5. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
6. (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:associate

Translations

Verb

associate (third-person singular simple present associates, present participle associating, simple past and past participle associated)

1. (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
2. (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
3. (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.

4. (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.

   Synonyms: attach, join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join

5. (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
   • 1819 September 21, John Keats, letter to John Hamilton Reynolds:

     I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
6. (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
7. (mathematics) To be associative.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act V, scene iii:

     Friends should associate friends in grief and woe

Antonyms

• disassociate

Related terms

• association
• associative

Translations

References

• “associate” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Italian

Verb

associate

1. second-person plural present indicative of associare
2. second-person plural imperative of associare
3. second-person plural present subjunctive of associare
4. feminine plural of associato

Latin

Verb

associ?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of associ?

English

Adjective

associable (comparative more associable, superlative most associable)

1. Capable of being associated or joined.
   • 1855, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology

     We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another.

2. (obsolete) sociable; companionable
3. (medicine, obsolete) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc.
   • 1802, Samuel l. Mitchill and Edward Miller, "Remarks on the Sympathy of the Stomach", in The Medical Repository

     the stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body