Associate

Definition

associate /ǝ'sǝƱʃieÇt/ v ၁။ ~ sb/ sth (with sb/ sth) (က) (အေတြးတြင္) ႏီွးႏႊယ္ၾကည့္သည္၊ ဆက္စပ္ၾကည့္သည္၊ ယွဥ္ ၾကည့္သည္။ You wouldn't normally associate these two writers—their styles are completely different. ❍ Whisky is traditionally associated with Scotland. ❍ I always associate him with fast cars. (ခ) (usu passive) (ယွဥ္တြဲ ျဖစ္ျခင္း၊ ေၾကာင္းက်ဳိးျဖစ္ျခင္း သေဘာအရ) ဆက္စပ္သည္။ the risks associated with drugs မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါး ႏွင့္ အႏၲရာယ္ တို႔သည္ ဆက္စပ္လ်က္ရိွသည္။ ❍ The new party is not associated with any existing political doctrine. ❍ The cycle of the tides is associated with the moon. ၂။ ~ with sb (မသင့္ေသာသူႏွင့္) ေတြ႕ဆံုသည္၊ ပတ္သက္သည္။ I don't like you associating with such people. ၃။ ~ oneself with sth ပတ္သက္သည္။ ေထာက္ခံသည္။ I have never associated myself with political extremism. Compare DISSOCIATE /ǝ'sǝƱʃiǝt/ adj ၁။ ဆက္သြယ္ထားေသာ။ ဆက္ႏႊယ္မႈရိွေသာ။ အေပါင္းပါျဖစ္ေသာ။ an associate company. ၂။ တြဲဖက္။ an associate conductor ❍ the associate producer of a movie ❍ Associate members have no right to vote. သဂၤဟအဖြဲ႕ဝင္တို႔သည္ မဲေပးခြင့္မရိွ။ n ၁။ စပ္တူလုပ္ဖက္။ လုပ္ေဖာ္ကိုင္ဖက္။ my closest business associates ❍ He is consulting his associates in the bank. ❍ The company is called Landor Associates. ၂။ သဂၤဟအသင္းဝင္။ The subscription for associates is £ 45. ❏ associate professor n ( US ) တြဲဖက္ပါေမာကၡ။

Examples

1. How do humans associate these seemingly opposed ideas?
2. [associate something with someone/something] : The study found that many people associate science with masculinity.