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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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

Verb

chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)

1. To be engaged in informal conversation.

2. To talk more than a few words.

3. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
4. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

Translations

Noun

chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)

1. (uncountable) Informal conversation.

2. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
3. (metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof.

4. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
5. A chat room
6. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
7. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.

Noun

chat

1. A small potato, such as is given to swine.

References

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

Noun

chat (plural chats)

1. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 441:

     Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.

Translations

Etymology 4

From thieves' cant.

Alternative forms

• chatt

Noun

chat (plural chats)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, WWI military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
   • 1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520:

     'Do officers have chats, then, the same as us?'

     'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'

   • 2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls? ?ISBN, page 18:

     May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.

Etymology 5

Noun

chat (plural chats)

1. Alternative form of chaat

Anagrams

• ACTH, Cath, cath, cath., tach

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French chat.

Noun

chat

1. cat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??t/
• Hyphenation: chat
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English chat.

Noun

chat m (plural chats, diminutive chatje n)

1. chat (online conversation)
2. chat (online conversation platform)

Derived terms

• chatten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

chat

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chatten
2. imperative of chatten

Anagrams

• acht

French

Etymology 1

From Middle French chat, from Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a/

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. cat (feline)
2. (male) cat, tom, tomcat
3. tag, tig (children’s game)

Derived terms

Related terms

• cataire
• chatte

See also

• haret
• matou
• minet
• minou
• mistigri

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?at/

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. (Internet) chat (online discussion)

Synonyms

• tchat

Derived terms

• chatter
• chater
• chatteur
• chateur

Further reading

• “chat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Iban

Etymology

From Min Nan ? (chhat).

Noun

chat

1. paint (substance)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xat??/

Noun

chat m

1. Lenited form of cat.

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??i.at/
• Hyphenation: chàt

Noun

chat f (invariable)

1. chat (informal conversation via computer)

Derived terms

• chattare

See also

• chiacchierata

Etymology 2

From Somali [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kat/

Noun

chat m (invariable)

1. chat (leaf chewed by people in North Africa and the Middle East)

   Synonym: khat

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

Noun

chat m (plural chats or chatz, feminine singular chatte, feminine plural chattes)

1. cat (animal)

Descendants

• French: chat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• chatt

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??æt?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

chat m (definite singular chaten, indefinite plural chatar, definite plural chatane)

1. (Internet) a chat

References

• “chat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• cat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)
• kat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Noun

chat m (oblique plural chaz or chatz, nominative singular chaz or chatz, nominative plural chat)

1. cat (animal)

Related terms

• chate

Descendants

• Middle French: chat
  • French: chat

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xat/

Noun

chat f

1. genitive plural of chata

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??at(?)(i)/, /???t(?)(i)/

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. (Internet) chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time)

   Synonym: bate-papo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??at/, [?t??at?]

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)

Derived terms

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat

Noun

chat

1. chat

Derived terms