Word Finder - associating

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To join in or form a league, union, or association.

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To spend time socially; keep company.

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She associates with her coworkers on weekends.

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(with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.

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He associated his name with many environmental causes.

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To connect or join together; combine.

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particles of gold associated with other substances

synonyms

• attach
• join
• put together
• unite

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To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.

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(in deliberative bodies) To endorse.

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To be associative.

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To accompany; to be in the company of.

Part of the recovery process is to stop associating with people who are still using and spend time with people who are living sober lives.

It is useful for associating with plants of fine foliage.

He revived nominalism by collecting and uniting isolated opinions upon the meaning of universals into a compact system, and popularized his views by associating them with the logical principles which were in his day commonly taught in the universities, He linked the doctrines of nominalism on to the principles of the logic of Psellus, which had been introduced into the West in the Summulae of Peter of Spain, and made them intelligible to common understandings.

From grinding her own pigments to dressing up in Tudor costume to associating with historical re-enactors she will strive for the greatest authenticity possible.

Even younger readers are sometimes attracted to the comic book format simply because of the pictures, and beginning readers can practice reading skills by associating pictures with words.

It is suitable for associating with flowers in summer, and grows in any soil, preferring moist places.

Hellebores are also called "Christmas Rose" because of legends associating this winter-bloomer with Christmas.

The practice of associating gemstones with particular birth months has been going on since the days of the ancients.

Mirra even sued the company for associating his name with the game.

Soon, people began associating Chianti with bad wine in a straw bottle.

Many of the earlier porcelain doll heads are represented along with new information associating certain heads to the proper manufacturer.

Even in the twenty-first century, most young children develop stereotypes regarding gender roles, associating nurses, teachers, and secretaries as females and police officers, firefighters, and construction workers as males.

Many children overcome shyness by themselves, some through associating with younger children, which allows them to display leadership behavior, still others through contact with other sociable children.

These teens have a distorted view of pregnancy, seeing it as a status symbol or associating pregnancy with adulthood.

It was preferred for parties when it was still considered not quite acceptable for a shirtless man to be associating with a group of women.

Since those popular entertainment appearances, the prestige of associating diamonds with the eternal has grown, including world-renowned De Beers adopting the slogan "a diamond is forever" as one of their corporate icons.

The distance that some may feel when associating with other signs of the zodiac is not a problem that Aries suffers.

They like motion and often learn best by physically manipulating objects or by associating concepts with movement.

Other organizations and teachers vary in their focus on the sexual aspects of naked yoga, sometimes associating it with tantric techniques.

Once you start associating foods with their calorie intake, you are better prepared to make good choice.

When it comes to learning French, whether one is an adult or younger, the very best way to approach this task is by associating these words with normal everyday situations.

Care had been taken for the spiritual wants of the provinces by associating six Jesuits with the expedition.

He was not deterred by the fear of ridicule or the reproach of Utopianism from associating himself openly, and with all the ardour of his nature, with the peace party in England.

The manakins are peculiar to the Neotropical Region and have many of the habits of the titmouse family (Paridae), living in deep forests, associating in small bands, and keeping continually in motion, but feeding almost wholly on the large soft berries of the different kinds of Melastoma.

Associating the nude solely with the performance of menial tasks, he deemed it worse than a solecism to transfer such subjects to his canvas, and thus a wide field of- motive was closed to him.

He elevates the present by associating it with the past and future of the world, and sanctifies it by seeing in it the fulfilment of a divine purpose.

In associating St Pelagia with St Marina, St Margaret, and others, of whom either the name or the legend recalls Pelagia, Hermann Usener has endeavoured to show by a series of subtle deductions that this saint is only a Christian travesty of Aphrodite.

At first inclined to conservatism, he afterwards became an exponent of the mediating theology (Vermittelungs-theologie), and ultimately a liberal theologian and advanced critic. Associating himself with the "German Protestant Union" (Deutsche Protestanten-verein), he defended the community's claim to autonomy, the cause of universal suffrage in the church and the rights of the laity.

Papyrus and many dated inscriptions fix the succession and length of reign of the eight kings very accurately; The troubled times that the kingdom had passed through taught the long-lived monarchs the precaution of associating a competent successor on the throne.

He took rather a prominent part in the discussions at the council, associating himself with Felix Dupanloup and with Georges Darboy, archbishop of Paris, in his opposition to the doctrine of Infallibility, and supporting their arguments from his vast knowledge of ecclesiastical history.

A strand of wampum, consisting of purple and white shell-beads or a belt woven with figures formed by beads of different colours, operated on the principle of associating a particular fact with a particular string or figure, thus giving a serial arrangement to the facts as well as fidelity to the memory.

But, unlike the pope, he gave ear to the popular cry for redress of political grievances; and persisted in associating with the baronial opposition, even after he was ordered by Innocent to excommunicate them as disturbers of the peace.

Though sometimes assembling in troops of from thirty to fifty, and then generally associating with zebras or with some of the larger antelopes, ostriches commonly, and especially in the breeding season, live in companies of not more than four or five, one of which is a cock and the rest are hens.

Founding ethics on the native and cultivable capacity in men to appreciate worth in men and actions, and, like the ancient Greek thinkers whom he followed, associating the apprehension of morality with the apprehension of beauty, he makes morality wholly independent of scriptural enactment, and still more, of theological forecasting of future bliss or agony.

But the determination of the birds which should be technically considered "Teals," and belong to the genus Nettion, as distinguished from other groups of Anatinae, is a task not yet successfully attempted, and much confusion has been caused by associating with them such species as the Garganey and its allies of the group Querquedula.

A venerated tree in modern Palestine will owe its sanctity to some tradition, associating it, it may be, with some saint; the Israelites in their turn held the belief that the sacred tree at Hebron was one beneath which their first ancestor sat when three divine beings revealed themselves to him.

Especially interesting are the traditions associating the same figure or incident with widely separated localities.

The division that Louis the Pious made at Aix in 817 among his three sons, Lothair, Pippin and Louis, was of like character, since he reserved the supreme authority for himself, only associating Lothair, the eldest, with him in the government of the empire.

Above all, he had secured the future by associating his son Robert with him on the throne; and although the nobles and the archbishop of Reims were disturbed by this suspension of the feudal right of election, and tried to oppose it, they were unsuccessful.

In his last years Philip left the duty of repelling the attacks of his Norman and other enemies to his son Louis, associating him with himself, as "king-designate," some time between the 24th of May 1098 and the 25th of September 110o.

It will assuage the fears of subscribers worried about publicly associating themselves with fiction.

The species is also known to be highly gregarious, associating with other small cetaceans in mixed species groups.

In associating itself with commerce philosophy behaved just like a young noblewoman who marries a commoner whom she supposes to be an honest man.

You merely think by associating it with ' Roman Catholicism or whatever ' you will make it sound sinister.

In the wild state it is gregarious, associating in herds of ten, twenty or more individuals, and, though it may under certain circumstances become dangerous, it is generally inoffensive and even timid, fond of shade and solitude and the neighbourhood of water.

Scholars agree in associating the earliest concordats with the celebrated contest about investitures (q.v.), which so profoundly agitated Christian Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries.

At the same time he corrected the error made by Illiger in associating the Phalaropes with these forms, rightly declaring their relationship to Tringa (see Sandpiper), a point of order which other systematists were long in admitting.

Important as the ring is throughout the tetralogy, Wagner would no more think of associating a theme with it for its own sake than he would think of associating a theme with Wotan's hat.

Securities were taken against the revolt of slaves by not associating those of the same nationality and language; they were sometimes fettered to prevent flight, and, after a first attempt at escape, branded to facilitate their recovery.

The difficulty first arises in elementary mensuration, where it is partly met by associating arithmetical and geometrical measurement with the cardinal and the ordinal aspects of number respectively (see Arithmetic).