(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.
Fraternize
Definition:
(v. i.) To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
(v. t.) To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) An experiment was conducted to test effects of prenatal and postnatal fraternity size (size of litter in which an individual develops prenatally or is reared postnatally) on ovarian development in mice.
(2) The formation of close fraternal relations is of great importance for the personality development of the children as well as of their parents and for the relations arising between brothers and sisters with advancing age.
(3) The illegal trade in natural resources is depriving developing economies of billions of dollars in lost revenues and lost development opportunities, while benefiting a relatively small criminal fraternity,” says the UN .
(4) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
(5) To call for liberty, equality or fraternity is a rallying call to arms.
(6) Let us always pray for us, one for the other, let us pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great fraternity.
(7) We believe correction of alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(8) Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change Read more “Although the fraternities, sororities and final [single-sex] clubs are not formally recognized by the college,” Faust wrote in an open letter to dean Rakesh Khurana , “they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.
(9) The fraternal twins, i.e., the girl operated upon and her brother, have been followed for 5 years and are without any complaints.
(10) In Boston was performed the first successful isograft between identical twins (1954) the first successful allograft between fraternal twins (1959) and the first successful allograft from a cadaveric donor (1962).
(11) Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma - in a state which wants to expunge its racist history from its history classes - video leaked of a fraternity singing racists chants which would have been at home in the film Birth of A Nation (if sound had only been in movies a hundred years ago).
(12) His 1895 will said it should go to those promoting "fraternity between nations", the abolition or reduction of standing armies, or the formation and spreading of peace congresses.
(13) Several tests related to lipid metabolism were made on the serum and urine of a fraternal twin with FMF during attacks and remission.
(14) Rolling Stone is walking back and apologizing for an explosive article it published about rape at the University of Virginia, admitting there “now appear to be discrepancies” in the key story in the article, about a woman who alleges that she was the victim of a calculated gang rape that took place by members of a fraternity at the school.
(15) Reasons relating partly to Spain's recent history and partly to the nature of its health system have kept the discipline from attracting the support and collaboration of much of the nation's medical fraternity.
(16) Prenatal fraternity size negatively affected average pup weight at birth (P less than .05) but had little subsequent effect on growth or reproduction.
(17) Number of sleep spindles and sleep spindle density showed almost concordance between identical twin pairs and one fraternal pair (No.
(18) The Russian president continued: "Ukraine is not only our closest neighbour it is our fraternal neighbour.
(19) Audio-taped interviews recorded in the Gottesman-Shields schizophrenic twin series (17 pairs of identical twins, 14 pairs of fraternal same-sex twins, and 12 unpaired twins) were rated for level of hedonic capacity.
(20) Miliband called for a "fraternal" contest for all candidates who put their names forward.