League vs. Association
Leaguenoun
A group or association of cooperating members.
Leaguenoun
An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
Leaguenoun
(informal) rugby league
Leaguenoun
A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia.
Leaguenoun
(measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
Leaguenoun
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Leagueverb
To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
Leaguenoun
A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5,280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.
Leaguenoun
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Leaguenoun
An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, organizations, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.
Leaguenoun
An association of sports teams that establishes rules of play, decides questions of membership in the league, and organizes matches between the member teams. In some cases a sports league is called a conference, as in the National Football Conference.
Leagueverb
To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate.
Leagueverb
To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.
Leaguenoun
an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members
Leaguenoun
an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action
Leaguenoun
an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)
Leagueverb
unite to form a league
Associationnoun
The act of associating.
Associationnoun
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
Associationnoun
(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
Associationnoun
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
Associationnoun
(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
Associationnoun
The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.
Associationnoun
Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.
Associationnoun
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.
Associationnoun
a formal organization of people or groups of people;
Associationnoun
the act of consorting with or joining with others;
Associationnoun
the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;
Associationnoun
a social or business relationship;
Associationnoun
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;
Associationnoun
a relation resulting from interaction or dependence;
Associationnoun
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
Associationnoun
(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
