(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.
Staff
Definition:
(n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
(n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
(n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
(n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
(n.) The round of a ladder.
(n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
(n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
(n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
(n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(2) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(3) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(4) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(5) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(6) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
(7) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(8) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(9) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
(10) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
(11) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(12) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(13) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
(14) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(15) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(16) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(17) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(18) Shop staff must be trained in the procedure and a record kept of the training.
(19) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(20) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.