different between associate vs relation

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

From Middle English relacion, relacioun, from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Old French relacion (whence French relation), from Latin rel?ti?, noun of process form from perfect passive participle rel?tus (“related”), from verb refer? (“I refer, I relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + fer? (“I bear, I carry”).

Morphologically relate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?-l?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /???le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

relation (countable and uncountable, plural relations)

1. The manner in which two things may be associated.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

2. A member of one's extended family; a relative.

3. The act of relating a story.
   • 1669, Letter from Dr. Merrett to Thomas Browne, in Simon Wilkin (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne’s Works including his Life and Correspondence, London: William Pickering, 1836, Volume I, p. 443,^[1]

     Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king’s fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]

   • 1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, Preface,^[2]

     […] seeing they are diversly related by Writers that lived near about one and the self-same time, we may easily perceive that they were common things, derived from precedent Memorials; and that they became various, by reason of the divers Ornaments bestowed on them by particular Relations […]
4. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.

   • […] Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation between sign, object, and sign user is called the sign relation or relation of denotation.

5. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.

6. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.

7. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
8. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
9. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

Synonyms

• (way in which two things may be associated): connection, link, relationship
• (member of one's family): relative
• (act of relating a story): recounting, telling
• (mathematics: set of ordered tuples): correspondence
• See also Thesaurus:relative

Hyponyms

• (set theory): function

Derived terms

Related terms

• relate
• relational
• relative
• relator

Translations

Anagrams

• Oriental, Tirolean, oriental, taileron, tenorial

French

Etymology

From Old French relacion, from Latin rel?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.la.sj??/

Noun

relation f (plural relations)

1. relation
2. relationship

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• enrôlait, oriental

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin rel?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?la??u?n/

Noun

relation c

1. relation; how two things may be associated
2. (mathematics) relation; set of ordered tuples
3. (computing) relation; retrievable by a database

Declension

See also

• samband

Anagrams

• laotiern