Assistant (adjective)
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
“an assistant surgeon”
Assistant (adjective)
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Assistant (noun)
Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
Assistant (noun)
A person who assists or helps someone else.
Assistant (noun)
Sales assistant.
Assistant (noun)
A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
“wizard”
Associate (adjective)
Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
“He is an associate editor.”
Associate (adjective)
Having partial status or privileges.
“He is an associate member of the club.”
Associate (adjective)
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
Associate (adjective)
Connected by habit or sympathy.
“associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions”
Associate (noun)
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
Associate (noun)
Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
Associate (noun)
A companion; a comrade.
Associate (noun)
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
Associate (noun)
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
Associate (noun)
One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
Associate (verb)
To join in or form a league, union, or association.
Associate (verb)
To spend time socially; keep company.
“She associates with her coworkers on weekends.”
Associate (verb)
To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
Associate (verb)
To connect or join together; combine.
“particles of gold associated with other substances”
Associate (verb)
To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
Associate (verb)
To endorse.
Associate (verb)
To be associative.
Associate (verb)
To accompany; to be in the company of.