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AFFILIATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization
Example:
network affiliates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("affiliate" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Derivation:
affiliate (join in an affiliation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("affiliate" is a kind of...):
associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)
Derivation:
affiliate (join in an affiliation)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they affiliate ... he / she / it affiliates
Past simple: affiliated
Past participle: affiliated
-ing form: affiliating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Join in an affiliation
Example:
They affiliated with a national group
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "affiliate" is one way to...):
fall in; get together; join (become part of; become a member of a group or organization)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
affiliate (a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization)
affiliate (a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization)
affiliation (the act of becoming formally connected or joined)
affiliation (a social or business relationship)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Keep company with; hang out with
Example:
She affiliates with her colleagues
Synonyms:
affiliate; associate; assort; consort
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "affiliate" is one way to...):
interact (act together or towards others or with others)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "affiliate"):
ally (become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage)
date; go out; go steady; see (date regularly; have a steady relationship with)
accompany; companion; company; keep company (be a companion to somebody)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
The affiliated organization of an observer.
(Observer Organization, NCI Thesaurus)
The center is affiliated with The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.
(Norris Cotton Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Researchers affiliated with the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) mounted the expedition to explore Zealandia.
(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)
It is a consortium made up of Baylor College of Medicine and its three primary teaching hospital affiliates: Ben Taub Hospital, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Texas Children's Hospital.
(Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Researchers affiliated with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and other institutions looked at 105 grassland experiments around the world.
(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)
It is affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and became an NCI-designated Cancer Center in 1992.
(Albert Einstein Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Russia was looking for a Southern Hemisphere partner and found suitable conditions at Pico dos Dias Observatory run by the National Astrophysics Laboratory, which is affiliated to the MCTI.
(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)
The new map is twice as accurate as the previous version produced nearly 20 years ago, say the researchers, who are affiliated with California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and other institutions.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
Cardiac catheterization laboratory may either be part of a hospital, affiliated with a hospital, or exist as a free-standing facility.
(Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NCI Thesaurus)
The center is affiliated with the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.
(Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
