Association vs. Relationship

The act of associating.

The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).

A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

Example: ‘Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God.’;

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

Example: ‘Words . . . must owe their powers association.’; ‘Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned?’;

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.

a formal organization of people or groups of people;

Example: ‘he joined the Modern Language Association’;

the act of consorting with or joining with others;

Example: ‘you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association’;

the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;

Example: ‘his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break’;

a social or business relationship;

Example: ‘a valuable financial affiliation’; ‘he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team’; ‘many close associations with England’;

the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;

Example: ‘conditioning is a form of learning by association’;

a relation resulting from interaction or dependence;

Example: ‘flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear’; ‘the host is not always injured by association with a parasite’;

(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

(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

Connection or association; the condition of being related.

(mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.

Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.

A romantic or sexual involvement.

Example: ‘Why are they being mean to her just because she wants a relationship with him?’;

A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other

Example: ‘I have a good working relationship with my boss.’;

(music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness);

Example: ‘the relationship between mothers and their children’;

a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection);

Example: ‘he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship’;

a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

state of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption