League vs. Association — What's the Difference?
Difference Between League and Association
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Definitions
League
An association of states, organizations, or individuals for common action; an alliance.
Association
The act of associating or being connected with
My parents disapproved of my association with my friends from across town.
League
(Sports) An association of teams or clubs that compete chiefly among themselves. Also called loop1.
Association
An organized body of people who have an interest, activity, or purpose in common; a society.
League
A class or level of competition
The ski jump was out of his league.
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Association
A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations
My therapist helped me examine my association of food with comfort.
League
A unit of distance equal to 3.0 statute miles (4.8 kilometers).
Association
The act of expressing a link or connection between two things
"The media's association of visa overstayers with illegality is so strong and common as to shape public attitudes towards them" (Junya Morooka).
League
Any of various other units of about the same length.
Association
A correlation or causal connection
There is a definite association of exercise with improved health.
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League
A square league.
Association
(Chemistry) Any of various processes of combination, such as hydration, solvation, or complex-ion formation, depending on relatively weak chemical bonding.
League
To come together in or as if in a league.
Association
(Ecology) A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.
League
To bring together in or as if in a league.
Association
(uncountable) The act of associating.
League
A group or association of cooperating members.
The League of Nations
Association
(countable) The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
League
(sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.
Association
(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
League
Ellipsis of rugby league
Are you going to watch the league tonight?
Association
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
League
(negative polarity) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.
We're not even in the same league.
Association
(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
League
A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
Association
A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.
League
(military) An alliance or coalition.
Association
The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God.
League
(measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
Association
Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.
Words . . . must owe their powers association.
Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned?
League
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Association
Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.
League
(ambitransitive) To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
Association
A formal organization of people or groups of people;
He joined the Modern Language Association
League
A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5,280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.
Association
The act of consorting with or joining with others;
You cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association
League
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
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
League
An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, organizations, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.
And let there be'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
Association
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
League
An association of sports teams that establishes rules of play, decides questions of membership in the league, and organizes matches between the member teams. In some cases a sports league is called a conference, as in the National Football Conference.
Association
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;
Conditioning is a form of learning by association
League
To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate.
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
League
To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.
Association
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
League
An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members
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
League
An association of states or organizations or individuals for common action
League
An obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)
League
Unite to form a league
