(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
Used in a Sentence
associating
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for associating.
Editorial note
Teaching personal responsibility to someone who is on the street associating with gangs can be a lost cause.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of associating gathered in one view.
(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
(transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for associating.
verb
(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
verb
(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
verb
(transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
verb
(transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
Example sentences
Teaching personal responsibility to someone who is on the street associating with gangs can be a lost cause.
I get that associating with a murderer is probably bad PR.
You should be able to log in directly into the Store without associating that account to your local account.
But you are only screwing us over by associating us with GamerGate, anti-feminism and all that crap.
They present the product being used by beautiful, smiling, sexy people, thus associating it with well being.
It's probably the only culturally universal thing people do (well of course; culture only makes sense when there are associating people).
By your examples, you seem to be associating it with self-esteem, whereas in Kahneman's case it's more of an epistemological issue.
There are, indeed, people who make a living from annotating and associating articles and information (see the HN front page and brainpickings).
Nowadays, even associating with them can kill your brand (for good reason) and I'll give them a blanket refusal.
They're mostly attending their own Church and associating with other people who go to that Church who largely hold the same beliefs they do.
When I was released (federal prison, not California), my conditions of supervised release prohibited me from associating with other ex-felons.
Thank you so much for associating a whole industry with autism.
Quote examples
But the "Like" button is watching you, associating that visit with your Facebook profile.
Hypothetically, if people were associating black names with low class more then white names, then there should be a significant difference in the benefits of a "good" neighborhood between whites with a good neighborhood and blacks.
Associating the "right to be forgotten" with Russias' homophobic laws is clearly an attempt to frame the idea in the negative - when the right to be forgotten is far from the same kind of heinous cultural act as homophobia.
So Denmark has an interest in "modeling" the benefits of this technology at home, with the expectation that between Vestas, smart-grid technology, etc., the whole endeavor of associating Denmark with wind energy will not only be "green", but also net-profitable for the country.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use associating in a sentence?
Teaching personal responsibility to someone who is on the street associating with gangs can be a lost cause.
What does associating mean?
(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
What part of speech is associating?
associating is commonly used as verb.