Associate - English meaning

noun

A thing which can be added to something else in order to make it more useful, versatile, or attractive.

Usage examples:

Optional accessories include a battery charger and shoulder strap

adjective

Contributing to or aiding an activity or process in a minor way; subsidiary or supplementary.

Usage examples:

Functionally the maxillae are a pair of accessory jaws

noun

Something added to a machine or to clothing that has a useful or decorative purpose

Usage examples:

Fashion accessory sunglasses are much more than a fashion accessory., she wore a green wool suit wi…

noun

A person who helps another commit a crime.

Usage examples:

An accomplice in the murder

noun

A person who helps someone else to commit a crime or do something morally wrong

Usage examples:

The thieves and two accomplices made away with over $25,000 in cash.

noun

A person who helps someone else to commit a crime or to do something morally wrong

noun

Knowledge or experience of something.

Usage examples:

The pupils had little acquaintance with the language

noun

A person whom you know but do not know well and who is therefore not exactly a friend

Usage examples:

[ u ] the young have little acquaintance with real-life tragedy.

noun

A person that you have met but do not know well

Usage examples:

A business acquaintance

noun

A state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose.

Usage examples:

Debate continued among nato allies

verb

Combine or unite a resource or commodity with (another) for mutual benefit.

Usage examples:

He allied his racing experience with his father's business acumen

noun

Variant spelling of alley2.

noun

Each of a pair of marks ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 used to enclose words or figures so as to separate them from the context.

Usage examples:

Symbols are given in brackets

verb

Enclose (words or figures) in brackets.

Usage examples:

I have bracketed the phrase ‘of contrary qualities’ in the translation, since it is not explicit in…

noun

Either of a pair of marks [ ], or the information inside them, used in a piece of writing to show that what is inside these marks should be considered as separate from the main part

Usage examples:

Most college students are in the 18 to 22 age bracket., her new job puts her in a higher income/tax…

noun

A person working with another worker, esp. as a partner or one who helps

noun

A person who you work with, especially someone with a similar job or level of responsibility

Usage examples:

American workers in recent years have seen their co-workers laid off or downsized out of jobs.

noun

A person with whom one works in a profession or business.

Usage examples:

She thanked her colleagues in the federation for their work this year

noun

One of a group of people who work together

Usage examples:

He always got along well with his colleagues in the university.

noun

A person that you work with

Usage examples:

He has a good working relationship with colleagues.

noun

A fellow citizen or national of a country.

Usage examples:

Stich defeated his compatriot boris becker in the quarter-finals

noun

A person who comes from your own country

Usage examples:

This writer and several of her russian compatriots now live in new york., after work, i went to din…

noun

A person who comes from the same country

noun

(among men) a colleague or a fellow member of an organization.

Usage examples:

An old college comrade

noun

A friend, especially one who you have been involved in difficult or dangerous, usually military, activities with

Usage examples:

Many of his comrades were killed in the battle.

noun

A member of the same political group, especially a communist or socialist group or a trade union

Usage examples:

I know my opinion is shared by many of my comrades in the labour movement., [ as form of address ] …

adjective

Joined by an agreement or treaty.

Usage examples:

Some local groups united to form confederate councils

noun

A person one works with, especially in something secret or illegal; an accomplice.

Usage examples:

Where was his confederate, the girl who had stolen richard's wallet?

verb

Bring (states or groups of people) into an alliance.

Usage examples:

The treaty confederated the fourteen tribes

verb

Bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established.

Usage examples:

The electrodes were connected to a recording device

verb

To join together two things, or to be joined together

Usage examples:

[ i ] the printer connects to the computer., [ t ] a ferry connects the island to the mainland., [ …

verb

To join two or more pieces of equipment together, or to be joined in this way

Usage examples:

Wireless networks allow you to connect two or more pcs within your own home., connect to sth the ca…

noun

A relationship in which a person or thing is linked or associated with something else.

Usage examples:

The connections between social attitudes and productivity

noun

The fact of arriving on an aircraft, train, etc., before a second vehicle, on which passengers can continue their trip, leaves

Usage examples:

We were delayed and missed our connection., [ c ] a sewer connection, [ c ] science has not shown a…

noun

A relationship between two things, ideas, etc.

Usage examples:

Connection between sth and sth a study of the connection between pay and performance, a(n) internet…

noun

The state of physical touching.

Usage examples:

Equipment in contact with water can benefit from rubber lining

verb

Communicate with (someone), typically in order to give or receive information.

Usage examples:

Anyone with any information should contact darlington police

noun

Communication with someone, or with a group or organization

Usage examples:

Have you kept in contact with your friends from college?, the pilot was always in contact with an a…

noun

Two people or things of the same sort considered together.

Usage examples:

A couple of girls were playing marbles

verb

Link or combine (something) with something else.

Usage examples:

A sense of hope is coupled with a palpable sense of loss

noun

Two or a few things that are similar or the same, or two or a few people who are in some way connected

Usage examples:

I’m packing a couple of sweaters in case it gets cold., we’re having two couples over for dinner.

verb

Consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another.

Usage examples:

Customers equate their name with quality

verb

To consider one thing to be the same as or equal to another thing

Usage examples:

Equate something with something he complained that there was a tendency to equate right-wing politi…

noun

A person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations.

Usage examples:

She's a friend of mine

verb

Add (someone) to a list of friends or contacts on a social networking website.

Usage examples:

I am friended by 29 people who i have not friended back

noun

A person you know well and like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family

Usage examples:

I dreamed my school friends were being chased by a whale., today i got a call from a friend of mine…

verb

Establish or indicate who or what (someone or something) is.

Usage examples:

The judge ordered that the girl should not be identified

verb

Recognize as being

verb

To recognize or be able to name someone or something, or to prove who or what someone or something is

Usage examples:

Small babies can identify their mothers., the police officer refused to identify himself.

noun

A relationship between two things or situations, especially where one affects the other.

Usage examples:

A commission to investigate a link between pollution and forest decline

verb

Make, form, or suggest a connection with or between.

Usage examples:

Rumours that linked his name with judith

noun

A torch of pitch and tow for lighting the way in dark streets.

noun

Either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity.

Usage examples:

Arrange the children in pairs so that each person has a partner

verb

A friendly form of address by one man to another.

Usage examples:

How you doing, partner?

noun

A timber framework secured to and strengthening the deck of a wooden ship around a hole through which a mast, capstan, pump, etc. pass.

Usage examples:

The mast was not chocked at the partners as it should have been

verb

Make or show a connection between.

Usage examples:

The study examines social change within the city and relates it to developments in the country as a…

verb

Give an account of

verb

To be connected with something, or to show that something is connected with something else

Usage examples:

[ i always + adv/prep ] the point i’m making now relates to what i said before., [ t ] she relates …

noun

A person who approves of and encourages a public figure, political party, policy, etc.

Usage examples:

Labour supporters

noun

A person who actively helps someone

Usage examples:

Supporters of the bill expect it to pass., he is a strong supporter of states’ rights.

noun

A pilot whose aircraft is positioned behind and outside the leading aircraft in a formation.

Usage examples:

As with most combat fighter wings, five wingmen flew in formation behind the lead fighter, usually …

noun

A pilot whose plane is flying behind and to the side of a plane that is leading a group of planes flying together

Usage examples:

In these kinds of situations it always helps to have a good wingman.

noun

A person who works in the same place as you, especially one who you are friendly with

Usage examples:

I went out for a drink with a few workmates.