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association
Overview of noun association
The noun association has 8 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (616) association -- (a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association")
2. (32) association -- (the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association")
3. (27) association -- (the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break")
4. (23) affiliation, association, tie, tie-up -- (a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England")
5. (6) association, connection, connexion -- (the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association")
6. association -- (a relation resulting from interaction or dependence; "flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association with a parasite")
7. association -- ((chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding)
8. association -- ((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)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun association
8 senses of association
Sense 1
association
=> organization, organisation
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
association
=> social activity
=> group action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
association
=> union, unification
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
affiliation, association, tie, tie-up
=> relationship
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
=> memory, remembering
=> basic cognitive process
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
association
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
association
=> chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 8
association
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun association
5 of 8 senses of association
Sense 1
association
=> American Baptist Convention, Northern Baptist Convention
=> Southern Baptist Convention
=> cooperative
=> club, social 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
=> sisterhood, sistership
=> Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons, AARP
=> Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN
Sense 2
association
=> fraternization, fraternisation
=> affiliation
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
=> colligation
Sense 7
association
=> hydration
=> solvation
Sense 8
association
=> antibiosis
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun association
8 senses of association
Sense 1
association
=> organization, organisation
Sense 2
association
=> social activity
Sense 3
association
=> union, unification
Sense 4
affiliation, association, tie, tie-up
=> relationship
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
=> memory, remembering
Sense 6
association
=> relation
Sense 7
association
=> chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
Sense 8
association
=> group, grouping
Antonyms of noun association
1 of 8 senses of association
Sense 3
association
Antonym of disassociation (Sense 1)
=>disassociation
Member Holonyms of noun association
Substance Holonyms of noun association
Part Holonyms of noun association
Member Meronyms of noun association
1 of 8 senses of association
Sense 1
association
HAS MEMBER: chapter
HAS MEMBER: associate
Substance Meronyms of noun association
Part Meronyms of noun association
Meronyms of noun association
1 of 8 senses of association
Sense 1
association
HAS MEMBER: chapter
HAS MEMBER: associate
Holonyms of noun association
Attributes of noun association
Derived Forms of noun association
7 of 8 senses of association
Sense 1
association
RELATED TO>(verb) associate#2
=> consort, associate, affiliate, assort
RELATED TO>(verb) associate#3
=> consociate, associate
Sense 2
association
RELATED TO>(verb) associate#2
=> consort, associate, affiliate, assort
RELATED TO>(verb) associate#3
=> consociate, associate
Sense 3
association
RELATED TO>(verb) associate#1
=> associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect
Sense 4
affiliation, association, tie, tie-up
RELATED TO>(verb) associate#3
=> consociate, associate
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
RELATED TO>(verb) associate#1
=> associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect
Sense 6
association
RELATED TO>(verb) associate#3
=> consociate, associate
Sense 8
association
RELATED TO>(verb) associate#3
=> consociate, associate
Domain of noun association
2 of 8 senses of association
Sense 7
association
TOPIC>(noun) chemistry#1, chemical science#1
Sense 8
association
TOPIC>(noun) ecology#2, bionomics#1, environmental science#1
Domain Terms of noun association
Familiarity of noun association
association used as a noun is common (polysemy count =8)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun association
8 senses of association
Sense 1
association
> organization, organisation
=> adhocracy
=> affiliate
=> bureaucracy
=> nongovernmental organization, NGO
HAS INSTANCE=> Orange Order, Association of Orangemen
=> Tammany Hall, Tammany Society, Tammany
=> fiefdom
=> line of defense, line of defence
=> line organization, line organisation
=> association
=> polity
=> quango, quasi-NGO
=> institution, establishment
=> enterprise
=> defense, defence, defense force, defence force
=> establishment
=> fire brigade, fire company
=> company, troupe
=> unit, social unit
=> Peace Corps
=> force, personnel
=> union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
=> musical organization, musical organisation, musical group
=> party, political party
=> machine, political machine
=> machine
=> professional organization, professional organisation
=> alliance, coalition, alignment, alinement
=> federation
=> hierarchy, power structure, pecking order
=> deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission
=> Girl Scouts
=> blue
=> grey, gray
=> host
=> pool
Sense 2
association
> social activity
=> association
=> mingling
Sense 3
association
> union, unification
=> coalition, fusion
=> connection, link, connectedness
=> junction, conjunction, conjugation, colligation
=> association
=> marriage
=> syncretism
Sense 4
affiliation, association, tie, tie-up
> relationship
=> account, business relationship
=> acquaintance, acquaintanceship
=> affiliation, association, tie, tie-up
=> assimilation
=> friendship, friendly relationship
=> membership
=> subjugation, subjection
Sense 5
association, connection, connexion
> memory, remembering
=> short-term memory, STM, immediate memory
=> working memory
=> long-term memory, LTM
=> retrieval
=> recall, recollection, reminiscence
=> recognition, identification
=> association, connection, connexion
=> retrospection
Sense 6
association
> relation
=> possession
=> social relation
=> position, spatial relation
=> ownership
=> causality
=> relationship, human relationship
=> function
=> association
=> logical relation
=> mathematical relation
=> foundation
=> connection, connexion, connectedness
=> unconnectedness
=> linguistic relation
=> part, portion, component part, component
=> affinity, kinship
=> kinship, family relationship, relationship
=> magnitude relation, quantitative relation
=> control
=> business relation
=> reciprocality, reciprocity
=> interrelation, interrelationship, interrelatedness
=> temporal relation
=> comparison
=> opposition, oppositeness
=> change
Sense 7
association
> chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
=> acylation
=> agglutination, agglutinating activity
=> amylolysis
=> association
=> bluing, blueing
=> calcification
=> catalysis, contact action
=> chelation
=> chemical reaction, reaction
=> chlorination
=> cleavage
=> corrosion, corroding, erosion
=> cracking
=> deamination, deaminization
=> decalcification
=> decarboxylation
=> de-iodination
=> demineralization, demineralisation
=> desalination, desalinization, desalinisation
=> digestion
=> dissociation
=> gasification
=> gassing
=> hydrogenation
=> intumescence, intumescency, swelling
=> inversion
=> iodination
=> mechanism, chemical mechanism
=> nitrification
=> peptization, peptisation
=> photosynthesis
=> polymerization, polymerisation
=> precipitation
=> proteolysis
=> pyrochemical process, pyrochemistry
=> sequestration
=> syneresis, synaeresis
=> synthesis
=> transamination
=> transamination
=> zymosis, zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment
Sense 8
association
> group, grouping
=> world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man
=> arrangement
=> straggle
=> kingdom
=> biological group
=> community, biotic community
=> people
=> social group
=> collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
=> edition
=> electron shell
=> ethnic group, ethnos
=> race
=> association
=> subgroup
=> sainthood
=> citizenry, people
=> population
=> multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
=> varna
=> circuit
=> system, scheme
=> series
=> actinoid, actinide, actinon
=> rare earth, rare-earth element, lanthanoid, lanthanide, lanthanon
=> halogen
Meronyms of noun association
8 senses of association
Sense 1
association
HAS MEMBER: chapter
HAS MEMBER: associate
=> organization, organisation
HAS MEMBER: quorum
HAS MEMBER: membership, rank
Holonyms of noun association
Grep of noun association
association
association area
association cortex
association football
association for the advancement of retired persons
association of islamic groups and communities
association of orangemen
association of southeast asian nations
association theory
associationism
disassociation
federal national mortgage association
free association
guilt by association
international association of lions clubs
international development association
national association of securities dealers automated quotations
national rifle association
national volunteers association
press association
professional association
savings and loan association
ulster defense association
world tamil association
Grep of adj association
associational
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