different between concern vs association

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concern?, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concern? (“I mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cern? (“distinguish”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?s?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?s??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Hyphenation: con?cern

Noun

concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)

1. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.

   Synonym: interest

2. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
3. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

4. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
   • 2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148:

     At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.

Translations

Further reading

• concern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• concern in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

concern (third-person singular simple present concerns, present participle concerning, simple past and past participle concerned)

1. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts xxviii. 31

     Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.

   • 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation

     our wars with France have always affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those we have had with any other nation

   • 1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy

     ignorant, so far as the usual instruction was concerned
2. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended

     They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
3. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

Synonyms

• (to be of importance to): See also Thesaurus:pertain

Derived terms

• concernable

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English concern.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?rn/
• Hyphenation: con?cern
• Rhymes: -?rn

Noun

concern n (plural concerns, diminutive concerntje n)

1. company, business, concern

Derived terms

• chemieconcern

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)

1. The act of associating.
2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
3. (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
4. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
5. (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)

1. 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.

   • 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".

   • 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.

   • 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.

2. 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)

1. association, society, group
2. (commerce, economics) partnership
3. association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination
4. (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).