Union
['juːnjən;-ɪən] or ['junɪən]
Definition
(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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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Junction, combination, coalition, conjunction, unification, incorporation.[2]. Harmony, concord, agreement, concert, unison, unanimity, unity.[3]. Confederacy, alliance, league.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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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Definition
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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Unserious Contents or Definition
An ailing individual frequently troubled by scabs and liable to strike without warning.
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Examples
- The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was then a Union victory, in which the Armies of the Tennessee and the Ohio both participated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It had not got to this height in any part of Scotland before the Union. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As to America, the advantages of such a union to her are not so apparent. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The union of a number of springs forms a river. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But our troops had to bury the dead, and found that more Confederate than Union soldiers had been killed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She was free of it all, she could seek a new union elsewhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The stock was then selling at about 25, and in the later consolidation with the Western Union went in at about 60; so that the real purchase price was not less than $1,000,000 in cash. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A man leads a dree life who's not i' th' Union. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The office was on the ground floor, and had been a restaurant previous to its occupation by the Western Union Telegraph Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The vessels came in, their officers entirely unconscious that they were falling into the hands of the Union forces. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was a union to distance every wonder of the kind. Jane Austen. Emma.
- These principles I allow to be neither the infallible nor the sole causes of an union among ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This imperfect companionship, and our masquerade of union, are strangely dear to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For unions and trusts, sects, clubs and voluntary associations stand for actual needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It steers a course between exploitation by a bureaucracy in the interests of the consumer--the socialist danger--and oppressive monopolies by industrial unions--the syndicalist danger. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Trade unions and women's clubs have joined hands in many an agitation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You can find Tammany duplicated wherever there is a social group to be governed--in trade unions, in clubs, in boys' gangs, in the Four Hundred, in the Socialist Party. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The need for constant continued care was probably a chief means in transforming temporary cohabitations into permanent unions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Thus the issues in the trade unions may be far more directly important to statecraft than the destiny of the Republican Party. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There are said of have been such unions. Plato. The Republic.
- This led me carefully to observe during four years many seedlings, raised from several illegitimate unions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This enabled Trade Unions to develop with a large measure of freedom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In those days of sore oppression th' Unions began; it were a necessity. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Else there would be no meaning in political unions or any other movement that knows what it's about. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With trimorphic species six unions are legitimate, or fully fertile, and twelve are illegitimate, or more or less infertile. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It has even been suggested in Britain that there should be labour peers, selected from among the leaders of the great industrial trade unions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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