association

«association» in Mova's school dictionary: a group of people who join together for a shared purpose… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (an association, associations)

meaning for a pupil

1) An association is a group of people who join together for a shared purpose, like a club or society. tree →

2) An association is a link or connection in your mind between two things. tree →

3) Association is being connected with someone or something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: a football association, parents' association, residents' association. In English and psychology: word associations (sun → hot). In science and maths: an association (link) between two sets of data in a graph. Phrase: «in association with».

examples

• Mum is in the school parents' association. tree →
• The football association sets the rules of the game. tree →
• The smell of pine has an association with Christmas for me. tree →
• The graph shows an association between height and shoe size. tree →
• The show was made in association with the zoo. tree →
• We played a word association game. tree →
• It was her especial duty to protect the state and all peaceful associations of mankind, which she possessed the power of defending when occasion required. tree →

note

Plural: associations. Verb: associate. In data, an association does not prove that one thing causes the other.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «association» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.