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Sounds | ahsow.shiyey'shahn; ahsow.siyey'shahn |
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Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A formal organization of people or groups of people. |
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Examples | "he joined the Modern Language Association" |
Members | chapter; associate |
Narrower | American Baptist Convention, Northern Baptist Convention; Southern Baptist Convention; cooperative; club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order; family, fellowship; American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars, VFW; league, conference; secret society; consortium, pool, syndicate; professional association; Fabian Society; gang, pack, ring, mob; legion; chamber of commerce; institute; Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons, AARP; Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN |
Broader | organization, organisation |
Verbs | associate; associate |
Meaning | The act of consorting with or joining with others. |
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Examples | "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association" |
Narrower | fraternization, fraternisation; affiliation |
Broader | social activity |
Verbs | associate; associate |
Meaning | The state of being connected together as in memory or imagination. |
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Examples | "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break" |
Broader | union, unification |
Contrary | disassociation |
Verbs | associate |
Meaning | A social or business relationship. |
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Examples | "many close associations with England" |
Synonyms | affiliation, tie, tie-up |
Broader | relationship |
Verbs | associate |
Meaning | The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination. |
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Examples | "conditioning is a form of learning by association" |
Synonyms | connection, connexion |
Narrower | colligation |
Broader | memory, remembering |
Adjectives | associative; associational |
Verbs | associate |
Meaning | A relation resulting from interaction or dependence. |
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Examples | "flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association with a parasite" |
Broader | relation |
Verbs | associate |
Meaning | (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding. |
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Category | chemistry, chemical science |
Narrower | hydration; solvation |
Broader | chemical process, chemical change, chemical action |
Meaning | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species. |
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Category | ecology, bionomics, environmental science |
Narrower | antibiosis |
Broader | group, grouping |
Verbs | associate |