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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#m1)

2) An association is a link or connection in your mind between two things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#m2)

3) Association is being connected with someone or something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#x1)
- The football association sets the rules of the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#x2)
- The smell of pine has an association with Christmas for me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#x3)
- The graph shows an association between height and shoe size. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#x4)
- The show was made in association with the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#x5)
- We played a word association game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/association/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.