Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 99
Assiduity (n.) 勤勉；刻苦；關心；掛慮；照料；一絲不苟的作風 Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.
Assiduity (n.) Great and constant diligence and attention [syn: {assiduity}, {assiduousness}, {concentration}].
Assiduous (a.) 勤勉的；照顧周到的；殷勤的；一絲不苟的 Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.
She grows more assiduous in her attendance. -- Addison.
Assiduous (a.) Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor.
To weary him with my assiduous cries. -- Milton.
Syn: Diligent; attentive; sedulous; unwearied; unintermitted; persevering; laborious; indefatigable. {As*sid"u*ous*ly}, adv. -- {As*sid"u*ous*ness}, n.
Assiduous (a.) Marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles" [syn: {assiduous}, {sedulous}].
Assiduous (a.) (Formal) 專心致志的；勤勉的 Showing hard work, care, and attention to detail.
// Assiduous research/ efforts.
// An assiduous student.
// The government has been assiduous in the fight against inflation.
Assiege (v. t.) To besiege. [Obs.] "Assieged castles." -- Spenser.
Assiege (n.) A siege. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Assientist (n.) A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract. -- Bancroft.
Assiento (n.) A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.
Assigned (imp. & p. p.) of Assign
Assigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assign
Assign (v. t.) To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
In the order I assign to them. -- Loudon.
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. -- Southey.
He assigned to his men their several posts. -- Prescott.
Assign (v. t.) To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. -- Spenser.
It is not easy to assign a period more eventful. -- De Quincey.
Assign (v. t.) (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
To assign dower, To set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. -- Kent.
Assign (v. i.) (Law) To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust.
Assign (n.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. [Obs.]
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so. -- Shak.
Assign (n.) (Law) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Assign (v.) Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute, assign].
Assign (v.) Give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: assign, allot, portion].
Assign (v.) Attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute].
Assign (v.) Select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" [syn: assign, specify, set apart].
Assign (v.) Attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" [syn: put, assign].
Assign (v.) Make undue claims to having [syn: arrogate, assign].
Assign (v.) Transfer one's right to.
Assign (v.) Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" [syn: assign, attribute].
Assignability (n.) The quality of being assignable.
Assignable (a.) Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.
Assignable (a.) Legally transferable to the ownership of another; "negotiable bonds" [syn: assignable, conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable].
Assignat (n.) One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
Assignation (n.) 分配，分派；【美】約會，幽會；【律】轉讓 The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. -- Holland.
Assignation (n.) An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. -- Pope.
Assignation (n.) A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
House of assignation, 妓院 A house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.
Assignation (n.) A secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) [syn: assignation, tryst].
Assignation (n.) The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state" [syn: allotment, apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation].
Assignation, () Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made.
Assignee (n.) (Law) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). Assignee (n.) (Law) An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. --Cowell. -- Blount.
Assignee (n.) pl. In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.
Assigner (n.) One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.
Assignment (n.) （分派的）任務；工作 [C]；（課外）作業，功課 [C]；分配；指派，選派 [U] An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
Assignment (n.) (Law) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.
Assignment (n.) (Law) The writing by which an interest is transferred.
Assignment (n.) (Law) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
{Assignment of dower}, The setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.
Note: Assignment is also used in law as convertible with specification; assignment of error in proceedings for review being specification of error; and assignment of perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of perjury or fraud.
Assignment (n.) A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty" [syn: assignment, duty assignment].
Assignment (n.) The instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another.
Assignment (n.) The act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" [syn: assignment, assigning].
Assignment (n.) (Law) A transfer of property by deed of conveyance [syn: grant, assignment].
Assignment (n.) An undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor).
Assignment (n.) The act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: appointment, assignment, designation, naming].
Assignment, () <programming> Storing the value of an expression in a variable. This is commonly written in the form "v = e". In Algol the assignment operator was ":=" (pronounced "becomes") to avoid mathematicians qualms about writing statements like x = x+1.
Assignment is not allowed in functional languages, where an identifier always has the same value.
See also referential transparency, single assignment, zero assignment. (1996-08-19)
Assignment, () contracts. In common parlance this word signifies the transfer of all kinds of property, real, personal, and mixed, and whether the same be in possession or in action; as, a general assignment. In a more technical sense it Is usually applied to the transfer of a term for years; but it is more properly used to signify a transfer of some particular estate or interest in lands.
Assignment, () The proper technical words of an assignment are, assign, transfer, and set over; but the words grant, bargain, and sell, or any other words which will show the intent of the parties to make a complete transfer, will amount to an assignment.
Assignment, () A chose in action cannot be assigned at law, though it may be done in equity; but the assignee takes it subject to all the equity to which it was liable in the hands of the original party. 2 John. Ch. Rep. 443, and the cases there cited. 2 Wash. Rep. 233.
Assignment, () The deed by which an assignment is made,, is also called an assignment. Vide, generally, Com. Dig. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t. Vin. Ab. h.t.; Nelson's Ab. h.t.; Civ. Code of Louis. art. 2612. In relation to general assignments, see Angell on Assignments, passim; 1 Hate & Wall. Sel. Dec. 78- 85.
Assignment, () By an assignment of a right all the accessories which belong to it, will pass with it as, if the assignor of a bond had collateral security, or a lien on property, the collateral security and the lien will pass with the assignment of the bond. 2 Penn. 361; 3 Bibb, 291; 4 B. Munroe, 529; 2 Drev. n. 218; 1 P. St. R. 454. 6. The assignment of a thing also carries with it all that belongs to it by right of accession; if, therefore, the thing produce interest or rent, the interest or the arrearages of the rent since the assignment, will belong to the assignee. 7 John. Cas. 90 6 Pick. 360.
Assignor (n.) (Law) An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.
Assignor (n.) (Law) The party who makes an assignment.
Assignor, () One who makes an assignment; one who transfers property to another.
Assignor, () In general the assignor can limit the operation of his assignment, and impose whatever condition he may think proper, but when he makes a general assignment in trust for the use of his creditors, he can impose no condition whatever which will deprive them of any right; 14 Pick. 123; 15 John. 151; 7 Cowen, 735; 5 Cowen, 547 20 John. 442; 2 Pick. 129; nor any condition forbidden by law; as giving preference when the law forbids it.
Assignor, () Ad assignor may legally choose his own trustees. 1 Binn. 514.
Assimilability (n.) The quality of being assimilable. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Assimilable (a.) That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.
Assimilate (v. i.) 被吸收；被消化；被同化 [（+into）]；成為相似 [（+to/ with）] To become similar or like something else. [R.]
Assimilate (v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood. -- Arbuthnot.
Assimilate (v. i.) To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England. -- J. H. Newman.
Assimilated (imp. & p. p.) of Assimilate.
Assimilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assimilate.
Assimilate (v. t.) 消化吸收（食物）；吸收（知識等）；理解； 使（民族、語音）同化 [（+to/ into）] To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. -- Sir M. Hale.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. - John Bright.
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. -- Cowper.
Assimilate (v. t.) To liken; to compare. [R.]
Assimilate (v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. -- Sir I. Newton.
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. -- Merivale.
Assimilate (v.) Take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe" [syn: {absorb}, {assimilate}, {ingest}, {take in}].
Assimilate (v.) Become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" [ant: {dissimilate}].
Assimilate (v.) Make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" [ant: {dissimilate}].
Assimilate (v.) Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution [syn: {assimilate}, {imbibe}].
Assimilate (v.) Become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant" [ant: {dissimilate}].
Assimilate (v.) [ I or T ] (Join) 吸收；融入；加入；（使）同化 To become part of a group, country, society, etc., or to make someone or something become part of a group, country, society, etc.
// The European Union should remain flexible enough to assimilate more countries quickly.
// You shouldn't expect immigrants to assimilate into an alien culture immediately.
Compare: Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis (n.) (Plant Physiol.) 光合作用 The process of constructive metabolism in which green plants utilize the energy of sunlight to manufacture carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of chlorophyll.
It was formerly called assimilation, but this is now commonly used as in animal physiology. -- Pho`to*syn*thet"ic, a. -- Pho`to*syn*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.
Note: In green plants water is absorbed by the roots and carried to the leaves by the xylem, and carbon dioxide is obtained from air that enters the leaves through the stomata and diffuses to the cells containing chlorophyll. The green pigment chlorophyll is uniquely capable of converting the active energy of light into a latent form that can be stored (in food) and used when needed.
The initial process in photosynthesis is the decomposition of water (H2O) into oxygen, which is released, and hydrogen; direct light is required for this process. The hydrogen and the carbon and oxygen of carbon dioxide (CO2) are then converted into a series of increasingly complex compounds that result finally in a stable organic compound, glucose (C6H12O6 ), and water. This phase of photosynthesis utilizes stored energy and therefore can proceed in the dark. The simplified equation used to represent this overall process is 6CO2 12H2O energy = C6H12O6 6O2 6H2 O. In general, the results of this process are the reverse of those in respiration, in which carbohydrates are oxidized to release energy, with the production of carbon dioxide and water.
The intermediary reactions before glucose is formed involve several enzymes, which react with the coenzyme ATP (see adenosine triphosphate ) to produce various molecules. Studies using radioactive carbon have indicated that among the intermediate products are three-carbon molecules from which acids and amino acids, as well as glucose, are derived.
Note: The role of chlorophyll Chlorophyll contains a hydrophyllic head group and a hydrophobic tail region. A magnesium atom is held in the center of a cyclic, conjugated double bond porphyrin ring which is responsible for absorbing red light. (There also is an absorption band in the blue. Thus red and blue are absorbed and green passes through, giving plants a characteristic green color.) Light is absorbed by antenna chlorophyll molecules, then transferred to the reaction center chlorophylls. Some hundreds of antenna chlorophyll molecules transfer energy to a reaction center, with transfer times of about 10-10 sec from the edge of the unit to the center.
The energy from light is used to pump H+ ions from the stroma into the thylakoid space and to reduce NADP+ to NADPH. Flow of H+ back into the stroma releases energy which is used to phosphorylate ADP to ATP. The chemiosmotic coupling is working here in a similar way to the mechanism of ATP generation used in mitochondria.
Carbon Fixation Carbon fixation is catalyzed by ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBP carboxylase), the world's most abundent enzyme.
The { Calvin cycle combines three carbon dioxide molecules into one molecule of three carbon glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate. Some plants, particularly many which live in hot, dry climates, have a mechanism for storing carbon dioxide by combining it with a three carbon molecule to form a four carbon molecule. This pathway is known as the C4 or Hatch-Slack pathway.
Assimilation (n.) [U]（食物等的）吸收；【生理】同化作用 The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.
To aspire to an assimilation with God. -- Dr. H. More.
The assimilation of gases and vapors. -- Sir J. Herschel.
Assimilation (n.) (Physiol.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.
Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. -- Sir T. Browne.
Note: The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs.
Assimilation (n.) The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family.
Assimilation (n.) The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another [syn: {assimilation}, {absorption}].
Assimilation (n.) The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion [syn: {assimilation}, {absorption}].
Assimilation (n.) A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound.
Assimilation (n.) The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure [syn: {acculturation}, {assimilation}].
Assimilation (n.) In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance.
Assimilative (a.) Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.
Assimilatory (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs.
Assimulate (v. t.) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Assimulate (v. t.) To assimilate. [Obs.] -- Sir M. Hale.
Assimulation (n.) Assimilation. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Asinego, Assinego, (n.) A stupid fellow. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Assinego (n.) See Asinego.
Assish (a.) Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.
Such . . . appear to be of the assich kind . . . -- Udall.
Assisted (imp. & p. p.) of Assist.
Assisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assist.
Assist (v. t.) 援助，幫助 To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
Assist me, knight. I am undone! -- Shak.
Syn: To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
Assist (v. i.) 援助，幫忙 To lend aid; to help.
With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end. -- Milton.
Assist (v. i.) To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] -- Gibbon. Prescott.
Assist (n.) [U] 援助，幫助 The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading" [syn: {aid}, {assist}, {assistance}, {help}].
Assist (n.) (Sports) The act of enabling another player to make a good play.
Assist (v.) Give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house" [syn: {help}, {assist}, {aid}].
Assist (v.) Act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function.
Assist (v.) work for or be a servant to; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years" [syn: {serve}, {attend to}, {wait on}, {attend}, {assist}].
Assistance (n.) 援助，幫助 The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.
Without the assistance of a mortal hand. -- Shak.
Assistance (n.) An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. [Obs.]
Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. -- Fuller.
Assistance (n.) Persons present. [Obs. or a Gallicism]
Assistance (n.) The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading" [syn: aid, assist, assistance, help].
Assistance (n.) A resource; "visual aids in teaching" [syn: aid, assistance, help].
Assistant (a.) 有幫助的，輔助的，副的 Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. -- Beattie.
Assistant (a.) (Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]
Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. -- Farrow.
Assistant (n.) 助手，助理，助教 One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
Four assistants who his labor share. -- Pope.
Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. -- Mrs. Chapone.
Assistant (n.) An attendant; one who is present. -- Dryden.
Assistant (a.) Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another [syn: adjunct, assistant].
Assistant (n.) A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work" [syn: assistant, helper, help, supporter].
Assistantly (adv.) In a manner to give aid. [R.]
Assister (n.) An assistant; a helper.
Assistful (a.) Helpful.
Assistive (a.) Lending aid, helping.
Assistive (a.) Giving assistance.
Assistless (a.) Without aid or help. [R.] -- Pope.
Assistor (n.) (Law) A assister.
Assithment (n.) See Assythment. [Obs.]
Assize (n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. [Obs.]
Assize (n.) (Law) A special kind of jury or inquest.
Assize (n.) (Law) A kind of writ or real action.
Assize (n.) (Law) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
Assize (n.) (Law) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.
Assize (n.) (Law) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. -- Glanvill. -- Spelman. -- Cowell. --Blackstone. -- Tomlins. -- Burrill.
Note: [This term is not now used in England in the sense of a writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind, but in Scotch practice it is still technically applied to the jury in criminal cases. -- Stephen. -- Burrill. -- Erskine.]
Assize (n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. -- Blackstone. -- Wharton. -- Encyc. Brit.
Assize (n.) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. -- Brande. -- Wharton. -- Craig. -- Burrill.
Assize (n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.
Assize (n.) Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted into size.]
An hundred cubits high by just assize. -- Spenser. [Formerly written, as in French, assise.]
Assized (imp. & p. p.) of Assize.
Assizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assize.
Assize (v.) To assess; to value; to rate. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Assize (v.) To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. [Obs.]
Assize (n.) The regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale.
Assize (n.) An ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property.
Assize, () Eng. law. This was the name of an ancient court; it derived its name from assideo, to sit together. Litt. s. 234; Co. Litt. 153 b., 159 b. It was a kind of jury before which no evidence was adduced, their verdict being regarded as a statement of facts, which they knew of their own knowledge. Bract. iv. 1, 6.
Assize, () The name of assize was also given to a remedy for the restitution of a freehold, of which the complainant had been disseised. Bac. Ab. h.t. Assizes were of four kinds: Mort d'ancestor Novel Disseisin Darrien Presentment; and Utrum. Neale's F. & F. 84. This remedy has given way to others less perplexed and more expeditious. Bac. Ab. h.t.; Co. Litt. 153- 155.
Assize, () The final judgment for the plaintiff in an assize of Novel Disseisin, is, that he recover per visum recognitorum, and it is sufficiently certain. if the recognitors can put the demandant in possession. Dyer, 84 b; 10 Wentw. Pl. 221, note. In this action, the plaintiff cannot be compelled to be nonsuited. Plowd. 11 b. See 17 Serg. & R. 187; 1 Rawle, Rep. 48, 9.
Assize, () There is, however, in this class of actions, an interlocutory judgment, or award in the nature of a judgment, and which to divers intents and purposes, is a judgment; 11 Co. Rep. 40 b; like the judgment of quod computet, in account render; or quod partitio fiat, in partition; quod mensuratio fiat; ouster of aid; award of a writ of inquiry, in waste.; of damages in trespass; upon these and the like judgments, a writ of error does not lie. 11 Co. Rep. 40 a; Metcalf's Case, 2 Inst. 344 a: 24 Ed. III, 29 B 19.
Assizer (n.) An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.
Assizor (n.) (Scots Law) A juror.
Assober (v. t.) To make or keep sober. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Associability (n.) The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." -- H. Spencer.
Associability (n.) The capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought [syn: associability, associableness].
Associable (a.) Capable of being associated or joined.
We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. -- H. Spencer.
Associable (a.) Sociable; companionable. [Obs.]
Associable (a.) (Med.) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc.
The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body. -- Med. Rep.
Associable (a.) Capable of being associated; "words associable with politics".
Associableness (n.) Associability.
Associate (a.) 夥伴的；共事的；合夥的；副的；半正式的 Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.
While I descend . . . to my associate powers. -- Milton.
Associate (a.) Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.
Associate (a.) (Physiol.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions. -- E. Darwin.
Associated (imp. & p. p.) of Associate.
Associating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Associate.
Associate (v. t.) 使發生聯系；使聯合；…聯想起來 To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.
Associate (v. t.) To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
Associate (v. t.) To connect or place together in thought.
He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
Associate (v. t.) To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.]
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. -- Shak.
Associate (v. i.) 交往；結交合夥人；同事 To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
Associate (v. i.) To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body. -- E. Darwin.
Associate (n.) [C] 夥伴；同事；朋友；合夥人；有關聯的事物；（常大寫）準學士學位獲得者；準會員 A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.