資料來源 : pyDict

聯系,聯想;交際,交往;協會,社團

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Association \As*so`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. association,
   LL. associatio, fr. L. associare.]
   1. The act of associating, or state of being associated;
      union; connection, whether of persons of things. ``Some .
      . . bond of association.'' --Hooker.

            Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God.
                                                  --Boyle.

   2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or
      associated with a thing.

            Words . . . must owe their powers association.
                                                  --Johnson.

            Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their
            venerable associations, be profaned?  --Coleridge.

   3. 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.

   {Association of ideas} (Physiol.), the combination or
      connection of states of mind or their objects with one
      another, as the result of which one is said to be revived
      or represented by means of the other. The relations
      according to which they are thus connected or revived are
      called the law of association. Prominent among them are
      reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and
      effect. --Porter.

資料來源 : WordNet®

association
     n 1: a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he
          joined the Modern Language Association"
     2: the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you
        cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"
     3: the state of being connected together as in memory or
        imagination; "his association of his father with being
        beaten was too strong to break" [ant: {disassociation}]
     4: 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" [syn: {affiliation}, {tie}, {tie-up}]
     5: the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory
        or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by
        association" [syn: {connection}, {connexion}]
     6: 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"
     7: (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in
        solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
     8: (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