affiliate
noun
- corporate
verb
- to adopt or accept as a member, association with
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈfɪl.i.ət/ / /əˈfɪl.i.eɪt/
noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun).
- Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
“Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.”
“They used to been^([sic]) more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBC affiliate.”
verb
Etymology: From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun).
- To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
- to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
“Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?”
- To fix the paternity of
“to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another”
- To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
“How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?”
- To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.