association

名词 n.
/əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/|/əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃn̩/    /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/|/əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of associating. uncountable
    — And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.
  2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something. countable
    — "Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations."
  3. Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation). countable,uncountable
  4. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society. countable,uncountable
  5. Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. countable,uncountable
  6. A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business. Philippines,countable,uncountable

词形变化

associations plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin sociō
Latin associō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin associātiōbor.
English association
From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate + -ion.
The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio.
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