different between associate vs chum

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

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /t??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”).

Noun

chum (plural chums)

1. (dated) A friend; a pal.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend

2. (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
   • 1856 in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine [1]

     Field had a 'chum,' or room-mate, whose visage was suggestive to the 'Sophs;' it invited experiment; it held out opportunity for their peculiar deviltry.

Derived terms

• chummy

Descendants

• ? Swedish: tjomme (Gothenburg dialect)
• ? Norwegian: tjommi (Bergen dialect)
• ? French: chum (Quebec)

Translations

Verb

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
   • 1899 Clyde Bowman Furst, A Group of Old Authors [2]

     Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.
2. (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
3. (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
   • 1902 Ernest William Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman [3]

     "You'll make yourself disliked on board!"

     "By von Heumann merely."

     "But is that wise when he's the man we've got to diddle?"

     "The wisest thing I ever did. To have chummed up with him would have been fatal -- the common dodge."

4. (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Originally American English, from the 1850s. Perhaps from Powhatan.

Noun

chum (uncountable)

1. (fishing) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks

Derived terms

• chumsicle

Translations

Verb

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

1. (fishing) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
   • 1996 Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide [4]

     Small live baitfish are effective, and they will take bits of fresh cut fish when chummed strongly.

Etymology 3

Noun

chum (plural chums)

1. (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
   • 1915, The Pottery & Glass Salesman, volume 11, O'Gorman Publishing Company.

     ...self-supporting chum within the mould normally of corresponding and almost the same but lesser contour, whereby a space is provided between the chum and mould for the introduction of the powdered material and means for expanding the chum'.

   • 1920, The South African Journal of Industries, volume 3, part 2, p. 820

     He uses a round slab of clay, which he places on top of the chum and commences to thump down around the sides.

   • 1921, A Survey and Analysis of the Pottery Industry, bulletin no. 67, trade and industrial series no. 20, Washington: Federal Board for Vocational Training.

     Chum,—A mold used on the whirler to hold ware for scraping and finishing.

   • 1972, Neal French, Industrial Ceramics—Tableware, Oxford University Press

     Now that shapes were more uniform this was usually done on a horizontal lathe with the bowl automatically centred on a wooden chum

     This is a more useful method: it is used in making oval casseroles. The liner is made by spreading a bat and tehn forming it over a felt-covered chum, oval in shape.

     Chum or chuck: Lathe attachment for holding pots during turning process.

Anagrams

• much

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English chum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??m/

Noun

chum m (plural chums, feminine blonde or chum de fille)

1. (Canada, informal, Quebec) boyfriend (feminine counterpart: blonde)

2. (Canada, chiefly slang, Quebec) a friend, usually male; a chum (feminine form: chum de fille)

Synonyms

• (boyfriend): petit ami, ami de cœur, fiancé (dated), conjoint
• (friend): copain, ami

Derived terms

• chum de fille

Irish

Etymology 1

Inflected form of cum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xu?m?/, /x?m?/

Verb

chum

1. past indicative analytic of cum
2. Lenited form of cum.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dochum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?n?/

Preposition

chum (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

1. Obsolete spelling of chun

Old Irish

Verb

·chum

1. Lenited form of ·cum.

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *quma?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma?, from Proto-Austronesian *quma?. Cognate with Cebuano umang, Tiruray kumang, Marshallese om?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?um/

Noun

chum

1. hermit crab

Scottish Gaelic

Preposition

chum

1. Alternative form of chun

Verb

chum

1. past indicative of cum

Mutation

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t??um??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t??um??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [c?m??]

Noun

(classifier cái) chum • (????)

1. a kind of vase used to contain water

See also

• lu