0 present participle of associate
1 to connect someone or something in your mind with someone or something else:
Most people associate troglodytes with prehistoric times, but troglodyte communities still exist in Tunisia and China.
Both politicians have been closely associated with the movement for some time.
He has been associated with some dubious characters.
I am happy, indeed proud, to be associated with this project.
One or two of the earlier photos reveal an intriguing androgyny not normally associated with the actress.
There is a traditional locus associating visual colour, semitones, beauty (softness, sweetness) and inbetweenness with the chromatic melodic genus and the chromatic tetrachord.
We also hypothesized that insectivores increase their foraging from associating with the babblers, and would thus be most attracted to babbler vocalizations.
It provides facilities for associating containers with symbolic names.