Union

['juːnjən;-ɪən] or ['junɪən]

解释:

(noun.) the act of making or becoming a single unit; 'the union of opposing factions'; 'he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays'.

(noun.) a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner).

(noun.) the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; 'lightning produced an unusual union of the metals'.

(noun.) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; 'let C be the union of the sets A and B'.

(noun.) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; 'you have to join the union in order to get a job'.

(noun.) a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; 'the Soviet Union'.

(noun.) the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); 'he has visited every state in the Union'; 'Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union'; 'the North's superior resources turned the scale'.

(noun.) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.

(noun.) the state of being joined or united or linked; 'there is strength in union'.

(adj.) being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; 'Union soldiers'; 'Federal forces'; 'a Federal infantryman' .

(adj.) of trade unions; 'the union movement'; 'union negotiations'; 'a union-shop clause in the contract' .

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解释:

(n.) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

(n.) Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.

(n.) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.

(n.) A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.

(n.) A large, fine pearl.

(n.) A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.

(n.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.

(n.) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Junction, combination, coalition, conjunction, unification, incorporation.[2]. Harmony, concord, agreement, concert, unison, unanimity, unity.[3]. Confederacy, alliance, league.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:Junction, coalition, combination, agreement, harmony, conjunction, concert,league, connection, alliance, confederacy, concord, confederation,consolidation

ANT:Disjunction, separation, severance, divorce, disagreement, discord, disharmony,secession, disruption, multiplication, diversification, division

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解释:

n. a uniting: that which is united or made one: something formed by the combination of parts or individual things or persons: concord: harmony in colour: agreement between parts: the state of wedlock: a device emblematic of union borne in the canton of a flag the canton used separately as a flag the union-jack: a combination as among workmen for class protection: several parishes united for joint support and management of their poor also the workhouse for such: (pl.) textile fabrics made up of more than one kind of fibre as of wool and cotton.—adj. Ūn′ioned showing evidence of union.—n.pl. Ūnion′id?/span> a family of lamellibranchiate molluscs represented in Britain by two genera Ū′nio and Anodonta.—ns. Ūnionist one who advocates or supports union esp. an upholder of the Union and opponent of secession before the American Civil War also one opposed to granting Home Rule to Ireland whether a natural Conservative or one of the Liberals who fell away from Mr Gladstone on this question in 1886; Ūnion-jack the national flag adopted by Great Britain and Ireland consisting of a union of the crosses of St George St Andrew and St Patrick.—The Union the legislative incorporation of England and Scotland in 1707 or of Ireland with both in 1801.

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