different between associate vs lin

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-Germanic *linnan? (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/
• Homophone: Lynn
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

lin (third-person singular simple present lins, present participle linning, simple past linned or lan, past participle linned or lun)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop to cease.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].

   • 1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD):

     Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.

   • 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, I. 238:

     He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.

Derived terms

• blin

Etymology 2

See English linn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/

Noun

lin (plural lins)

1. Alternative spelling of linn
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 9 p. 134[1]:

     And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring

   • c. 1735-1801, John Millar, poem, published in 1979, William Christian Lehmann, John Millar of Glasgow, 1735-1801, page 414:

     Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.

   • 1776, David Herd, George Paton, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, page 20, "Binnorie":

     Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.

   • 1827, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, page 51:

     A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.

   • 1861, Alexander McLachlan, The Emigrant: And Other Poems, page 201:

     O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret,

     But kept my heart aboon,

     Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,

     By Locher ' s roaring lin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English lin, from Old English l?n (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen, lint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/, /la?n/

Noun

lin (plural lins)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, especially in compounds) Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”)

   a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel

   • 1775, John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, page 16:

     […] to Sowerby-bridge, about twenty-four measured miles, wheel carriages would go in one day; and on that account they concluded that the manufacture of that place, Warrington, &c. would be much readier and cheaper supplied with lin-yarn, flax, &c. from the east, […]

     1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

   • 1864, Preston, Poems, 8:

     A yerd a gooid lin check.

   • 1866, Gilpin, Songs, 233:

     Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.

   • 1874 (ed. of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 27:

     Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.

References

• lin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -nil-, NIL, nil

Cornish

Etymology 1

Noun

lin f (singulative linen)

1. linen

Etymology 2

Noun

lin

1. Soft mutation of glin.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lin/

Pronoun

lin

1. accusative of li; him

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin l?num, from Proto-Indo-European *l?no-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

lin m (plural lins)

1. linen
2. flax (the plant)

Related terms

• ligne
• linge

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Nil

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin l?num.

Noun

lin m

1. linen
2. flax

Related terms

• linie

Galician

Verb

lin

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ler

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lijn, from Middle Dutch l?ne, from Old Dutch *l?na, from Proto-Germanic *l?n?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *l?no- (“flax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?n]
• Hyphenation: lin

Noun

lin

1. line

   Synonym: garis

2. band

   Synonym: pita

3. a route, a line (of transport, especially of public transport and airlines).

   Synonym: jalur

Further reading

• “lin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Mandarin

Romanization

lin

1. Nonstandard spelling of l?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lín.
3. Nonstandard spelling of l?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of lìn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

lin (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lyne

References

• “lin,, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)

1. (botany) flax
2. (fabric) linen

Derived terms

• linolje
• lintøy

References

• “lin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)

1. (botany) flax
2. (fabric) linen

Derived terms

• linolje
• lintøy

References

• “lin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lin m (oblique plural lins, nominative singular lins, nominative plural lin)

1. line (lineage; descent)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?in/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *lin?, further etymology uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *linjati, see Russian ???? (lin?).

Noun

lin m anim

1. tench (Tinca tinca)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lin f

1. genitive plural of lina

Further reading

• lin in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lin/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *lenus, from Latin lenis.

Adjective

lin m or n (feminine singular lin?, masculine plural lini, feminine and neuter plural line)

1. even, smooth
2. calm, quiet
3. mild, gentle, sweet

Declension

Synonyms

• (even, smooth): neted
• (calm, quiet): calm, lini?tit
• (mild, gentle): blând

Derived terms

• lini?te

See also

• senin

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian ??? (lin)

Noun

lin m (plural lini)

1. tench (Tinca tinca)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Etymology

From Old Norse lín, from Proto-Germanic *l?n?. Cognate with English linen.

Noun

lin n

1. flax (plant)

Declension

Related terms

• linberedning
• linblomma
• linfält
• linolja
• lintråd
• linne

See also

• lina

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin l?num. Compare Italian lino

Noun

lin m (plural lini)

1. flax
2. linen (fibre)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n/

Noun 1

lin

1. Soft mutation of glin.

Mutation

Noun 2

lin

1. Soft mutation of llin.

Mutation