Associate vs. Correlate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Associate and Correlate
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Definitions
Associate
To connect in the mind or imagination
"I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn" (John Keats).
Correlate
To establish or demonstrate as having a correlation
Correlated drug abuse and crime.
Associate
To connect or involve with a cause, group, or partner
Wasn't she associated with the surrealists?.
Correlate
To be related by a correlation.
Associate
To correlate or connect logically or causally
Asthma is associated with air pollution.
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Correlate
Related by a correlation, especially having corresponding characteristics.
Associate
To join in or form a league, union, or association
The workers associated in a union.
Correlate
Either of two correlate entities; a correlative.
Associate
To spend time socially; keep company
Associates with her coworkers on weekends.
Correlate
(transitive) To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.
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Associate
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.
Correlate
(intransitive) To be related by a correlation; to be correlated.
Associate
An employee, especially one in a subordinate position,
Correlate
Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.
Associate
A companion; a comrade.
Correlate
To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.
Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
Associate
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
Correlate
To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.
Associate
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
Correlate
One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.
Associate
Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status
An associate editor.
Correlate
Either of two correlated variables
Associate
Having partial status or privileges
An associate member of the club.
Correlate
To bear a reciprocal or mutual relation;
Do these facts correlate?
Associate
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
Correlate
Bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation;
I cannot correlate these two pieces of information
Associate
Joined with another or others and having lower status.
The associate editor is someone who has some experience in editing but not sufficient experience to qualify for a senior post.
Correlate
Mutually related
Associate
Having partial status or privileges.
He is an associate member of the club.
Associate
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
Associate
Connected by habit or sympathy.
Associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions
Associate
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
Associate
Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
Associate
A companion; a comrade.
Associate
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
Associate
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
Associate
(algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
Associate
(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
Associate
(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
She associates with her coworkers on weekends.
Associate
To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
He associated his name with many environmental causes.
Associate
(transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
Particles of gold associated with other substances
Associate
(transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
Associate
To endorse.
Associate
(mathematics) To be associative.
Associate
To accompany; to be in the company of.
Associate
To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.
Associate
To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
Associate
To connect or place together in thought.
He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
Associate
To accompany; to keep company with.
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
Associate
To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
Associate
To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.
Associate
Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.
While I descend . . . to my associate powers.
Associate
Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.
Associate
Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.
Associate
A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.
Associate
A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.
Associate
One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.
Associate
Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.
The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it.
Associate
A person who joins with others in some activity;
He had to consult his associate before continuing
Associate
A person who is frequently in the company of another;
Drinking companions
Comrades in arms
Associate
Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another;
First was the lightning and then its thunderous associate
Associate
A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
Associate
Make a logical or causal connection;
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
Colligate these facts
I cannot relate these events at all
Associate
Keep company with; hang out with;
He associates with strange people
She affiliates with her colleagues
Associate
Bring or come into association or action;
The churches consociated to fight their dissolution
Associate
Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status;
An associate member
An associate professor
