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association
English
Etymology
From Latin associ?ti?, from associ? (perhaps via French association).Morphologically associate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??s???i?e???n/, /??s??si?e???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??so??i?e???n/, /??so?si?e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)
- The act of associating.
- The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
- (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
- A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
- (object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
Synonyms
- (state of being associated): connection; See also Thesaurus:relation
- ass'n (abbreviation)
Derived terms
- guilt by association
Related terms
Translations
See also
- alliance
- coalition
- league
- union
Danish
Noun
association c (singular definite associationen, plural indefinite associationer)
- association
- 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN), page 83
- Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.
- Furthermore, children often block associations of anxiety for the dream content.
- Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.
- 2014, Klaus Kjøller, Sprogets Vej til Sindets Fred, 2. rev. vej, nu med Dit og Dat, KJOELLER.dk (?ISBN)
- I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.
- Instead of the everyday word "annihilation", which may contain negative associations of destruction and brutality, we use, on the Way of Language, the plus-corrected [?] expression "cancellation".
- I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.
- 2002, Anne Ring Petersen, Storbyens billeder: fra industrialisme til informationsalder, Museum Tusculanum Press (?ISBN), page 113
- ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.
- ... they will, Allouay writes, predominantly arouse associations of an urban/urbane character.
- ... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.
- 1999, Bogens verden
- ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.
- ... everywhere, a world of shape-wealth, of possible associations, of stories and connections that can be unfolded from banality opens.
- ... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.
- 2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN), page 83
- group of persons united for some purpose
Declension
Further reading
- “association” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From associer +? -tion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.s?.sja.sj??/
- Homophone: associations
Noun
association f (plural associations)
- association, society, group
- (commerce, economics) partnership
- association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination
- (object-oriented programming) association
Derived terms
- association libre
Descendants
- ? Romanian: asocia?ie
Further reading
- “association” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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liaison
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin lig?ti? (stem ligation-) (English ligation), derived from lig? (“I bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley?- (“to bind”). Doublet of ligation.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e?z?n
- (UK) IPA(key): /li?e?.z??/, /li?e?.z?n/, /li?e?.z(?)n/, (nonstandard) /la??e?.z?n/, /la??e?.z?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /li.?e?.z?n/, /li.?e?.s?n/, (nonstandard) /?la?.?.s?n/
Noun
liaison (countable and uncountable, plural liaisons)
- Communication between two parties or groups.
- Co-operation, working together.
- A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
- A tryst, romantic meeting.
- (figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
- (linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il".
- Hypernym: sandhi
Related terms
- liaise
- ligation
Translations
Verb
liaison (third-person singular simple present liaisons, present participle liaisoning, simple past and past participle liaisoned)
- (proscribed) To liaise.
Anagrams
- isolani
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Late Latin lig?ti?, lig?ti?nem, derived from Latin lig? (“bind”), or formed from lier +? -aison based on the Latin word. Compare also Old Occitan liazó, liazon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lj?.z??/
Noun
liaison f (plural liaisons)
- link, bond
- friendship
- liaison (romantic encounter)
- liaison (communication)
- (linguistics) liaison (phonological phenomenon)
- (chemistry) bond
Related terms
- lier
Further reading
- “liaison” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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