(v. t.) To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
(v. t.) To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
(v. t.) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
(v. t.) To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with.
(v. i.) To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
(2) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
(3) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(4) The affiliation set up a joint venture to operate two clinics, one on Scholl College's traditional campus and one at the teaching hospital.
(5) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
(6) Belaïd was an outspoken critic of these groups, whom he accused of being affiliated to Ennahda.
(7) In view of recent reports demonstrating that illicit cocaine use may cause rhabdomyolysis, we reviewed the collective experience of a university-affiliated medical center to identify patients with cocaine-induced rhabdomyolysis.
(8) To examine the relationship between stress and upper respiratory tract infection, 235 adults aged 14-57 years, from 94 families affiliated with three suburban family physicians in Adelaide, South Australia, participated in a six-month prospective study.
(9) At first, cadres worked undercover, organising clothes sales and other charitable events without stating their true affiliation.
(10) In order to assess the most important predictors of practice behavior, the authors conducted a survey of 163 junior and senior medical residents at five training hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
(11) Immunocytochemical tests with eight monoclonal antibodies against either bovine or human insulin and seven polyclonal antibodies against bovine insulin were carried out to determine the presence of insulin-like neuropeptides in the brain and affiliated neuroendocrine structures of the insect Leucophaea maderae.
(12) Sometimes it helps when an enterprise can point to the success of an affiliate in another country.
(13) Research laboratory of a metropolitan, university-affiliated medical center.
(14) When the mirror gave subjects visual access to neighboring animals, facial expressions, sexual, and agonistic behaviors increased, whereas affiliative behavior decreased compared with when no mirror was present.
(15) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
(16) Results indicated that the clients' family relations improved, as did their leadership and affiliation skills.
(17) CtW works with pension funds sponsored by unions affiliated with Change to Win, a coalition of US unions representing nearly six million members.
(18) The aim is to: make people aware and encourage prevention in the work environment; situate the hand in a preventive context; show the importance of the hand as a work-tool; present the quantitative and qualitative extent of diseases and accidents of the hand; make the interest and difficulties in collecting information known (especially about professional diseases and workers not affiliated to the CNA); stimulate continuing search of information about prevention in the work environment.
(19) University hospital-affiliated physicians rated clinical and hospital pharmacists significantly higher than community pharmacists for six subject areas, and they also ranked clinical pharmacists over hospital pharmacists on four subject areas and considered them more reliable than other pharmacy drug information sources.
(20) Now let me be clear: we are indeed at war with al-Qaida and its affiliates.
Ancillary
Definition:
(a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(2) Direct visualization of the intercavernous sinuses on contrast-enhanced MR images may serve as an ancillary sign for the diagnosis of carotid-cavernous or carotid-dural fistulas near the sella.
(3) Transfer of nonprofessional tasks out of nursing and reduction of tension arising from reduced responsibility of nurses for coordinating activities with ancillary departments are possible explanations for the positive relation between the presence of SUM and professional nurses' satisfaction.
(4) In ancillary studies, multiple cycles of direct dissolution of UCB crystals revealed a progressive decrease in aqueous solubility of UCB as fine crystals were removed; this effect was minimal in CHCl3.
(5) Although limited by availability and cost, MRI appears to be a useful ancillary diagnostic technique in ILD patients facing immunomodulating therapy.
(6) CLIA will require unprecedented coordination and cooperation between the clinical laboratory and ancillary sites.
(7) The causality principle provides a theoretic and practical basis for the integration of ancillary methods into various therapeutic concepts, and for therapeutic teamwork.
(8) One must not rely exclusively on the CT scan in questionable cases as with any other ancillary diagnostic acid and one must bear in mind that dysthyroid disease in evolution may exactly mimic the CT scan appearance of an intraorbital tumor.
(9) The measurements of feeding efficiency provides the basis for early identification of children who cannot be adequately nourished without ancillary feeding by nasogastric tube or by enterostomy.
(10) More serious problems resulted in requests for new studies having better controls, better management of ancillary therapy, more participants, or lasting longer.
(11) We construct a graphical model to combine a logistic regression disease model with models for the ancillary data and the risk-factor distribution in the population.
(12) With the exception of vasodilator activity the possession of any particular combinaton of ancillary pharmacological properties did not significantly influence the specific antihypertensive activity of these compounds.
(13) The immunosuppressive drugs methotrexate and azathioprine have been utilized as ancillary agents in life-threatening disease and in children whose disease could not be adequately controlled with prednisone alone.
(14) Debate over the current sources of financing reveals several troublesome issues: the presence of residents allegedly decreases the productivity of professionals and leads to overusage of ancillary services, proposed methods to pay for faculty salaries and services have created confusion and concern, and the financing of ambulatory-care training has been insufficient and poorly coordinated.
(15) A brief history of bioorganic mass spectrometry leading to the development of fast atom bombardment is presented, as well as a description of the method and ancillary techniques.
(16) In summary, we found that with appropriate case selection, ancillary studies performed on aspirated material can provide useful information in pediatric FNA cytology.
(17) The use of ancillary tools, such as ultrasound, requires only a slight modification of the previously established techniques for MA.
(18) Physical care is provided by a team of nurse-midwives, obstetricians, pediatricians, and ancillary health personnel.
(19) The frequency of mesoblastic nephroma (1%), of bilateral tumors (5%), and of incorrect preoperative diagnosis of Wilms' tumor (5%), the toxicities of the various regimens, and other ancillary data are presented and discussed.
(20) Recommendations are made for expansion of ancillary services, for postgraduate and refresher training, and for modifications in the legal and police system.