(v. t.) To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.
(v. t.) To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
(v. t.) To connect or place together in thought.
(v. t.) To accompany; to keep company with.
(v. i.) To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
(v. i.) To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.
(a.) Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.
(a.) Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.
(a.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.
(n.) A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.
(n.) A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.
(n.) One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.
(n.) Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.
Example Sentences:
(1) All mutant proteins could associate with troponin I and troponin T to form a troponin complex.
(2) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(3) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(4) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(5) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(6) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(7) We propose that this dependence on coexpression reflects the association between the LTA::STa hybrids and LTB subunits.
(8) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(9) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(10) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(11) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
(12) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
(13) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
(14) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(15) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(16) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(17) Most of the radioactivity in spleen cells from these rats were associated with antigen-reactive cells which formed rosettes specifically with HO erythrocytes.
(18) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.
(19) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(20) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
Disassociate
Definition:
(v. t.) To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.
Example Sentences:
(1) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
(2) I do remain limited at present by what I can say due to the ongoing referral to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and whilst I continue to maintain my innocence, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise for the effects that night in Rhyl has had on many people, not least the woman concerned.” The 26-year-old also sought to disassociate himself for the first time from those using the internet to hound his victim.
(3) Unlike intact acidotic and glucocorticoid-supplemented ADX acidotic rats, glutamine extraction was disassociated from the delivered glutamine load consonant with the role of glucocorticoid in coupling cellular glutamine transport to its metabolic utilization.
(4) These data demonstrate disassociation of modulation of transforming growth factor-beta 1 expression and mucin deposition by retinoic acid and sodium lauryl sulfate in human skin in vivo.
(5) These findings suggest that two goals that adolescent drug abuse programs should stress are working heavily on developing positive peer relations and family support while they encourage disassociation from deviant friends.
(6) Treatment of cells with chloramphenicol or rifampin caused a disassociation of the apparent DNA-outer membrane complex.
(7) In nearly every case husband and wife agreed on the choice of stratagem, a majority of the couples forming the sample opting for disassociation.
(8) This constitutes an anatomical disassociation of amphetamine's rewarding and aversive effects.
(9) C. difficile and C. perfringens became established more rapidly when disassociated than when monoassociated with axenic hares.
(10) In comparison with the healthy subjects, the hemiplegic subjects showed a greater disassociation between agonist and antagonist activation, a larger frequency of response defaults in the antagonist, and an increase in nonparetic (left) limb agonist amplitude during the 200-msec electromyographic integration period.
(11) Disassociation of F1 from Fo under conditions of assay did partially contribute to the H+ leakiness, but the major contributor to the high H+ conductance was Fo with bound F1.
(12) The results obtained by chronic administration of the catecholamines support the concept of a disassociation of adrenomedullary and sympathetic nervous system metabolic effects.
(13) Mild alkaline reduction was ineffective in disassociating carbohydrate chains from the protein core.
(14) In the presence of Ca2+ (greater than 1 microM) this protein disassociates from F-actin and reassociates with calmodulin.
(15) This disassociation was only seen in BF from exercise-trained rats, and was not true of TFL.
(16) The data indicate that TSF may exist normally as a dimer (30 kd), but can disassociate to 15 kd without loss of bioactivity.
(17) The characteristic feature of all dissociants detected in all systems was their plasmid profile: in phase I, plasmids of 120 and 60 Md, as well as small plasmids, were detected; in phase II disassociants, plasmid with a molecular weight of 120 Md was absent.
(18) Sisi himself has called for reform in Islam in order to disassociate it from extremists.
(19) Secretory endometrium was found in 54.8% of the women, proliferative endometrium in 32.2%, cellular debris in 4.9% and stromoglandular disassociation in 8.1%.
(20) The biologic result is further disassociation to the monomer after subcutaneous or i.v.