Unite
[juː'naɪt] or [ju'naɪt]
Definition
(verb.) join or combine; 'We merged our resources'.
(verb.) act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief.
(verb.) bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation; 'the Democratic Patry platform united several splinter groups'.
(verb.) have or possess in combination; 'she unites charm with a good business sense'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies.
(v. t.) Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach.
(v. i.) To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.
(v. i.) To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.
(v. t.) United; joint; as, unite consent.
Checker: Thomas
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Join, combine, connect, link, attach, add.[2]. Incorporate, amalgamate, embody, consolidate, centralize, blend, merge.[3]. Associate, couple, conjoin.
v. n. [1]. Concur, agree, co-operate, join forces, pull together, act in concert.[2]. Coalesce, combine, league, confederate, form a league, form an alliance.[3]. Be consolidated, be cemented, become one, grow together.
Typist: Marietta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Join, combine, link, attach, amalgamate, associate, coalesce, embody, merge,be_mixed, conjoin, connect, couple, add, incorporate, with, cohere,concatenate, integrate, converge
ANT:Disjoin, sever, dissociate, separate, disamalgamate, resolve, disconnect,disintegrate, disunite, disrupt, divide, multiply, part, sunder, diverge
Inputed by Elliot
Definition
v.t. to make one: to join two or more into one: to join: to make to agree or adhere.—v.i. to become one: to grow or act together.—adj. Unī′ted joined made one: harmonious.—adj. Unī′tedly in union: together.—ns. Unī′ter one who unites; Uni′tion act of uniting conjunction; U′nitism monism.—adj. U′nitive harmonising uniting.—adv. Unī′tively.—Unitas Fratrum or United Brethren (see Moravian); United Greeks (see Uniat); United Irishmen an organisation originally formed to help Grattan in carrying his reforms but which quickly became a rebel organisation and caused the rising of 1798; United Presbyterian (see Presbyter); United Provinces the seven northern provinces of Holland—Holland Zealand Utrecht Gelderland Groningen Friesland and Overyssel united in 1579 under the Union of Utrecht; United States a federal union of states esp. that of North America.
Editor: Lora
Examples
- In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Thirdly, Account for that propensity, which this illusion gives, to unite these broken appearances by a continued existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The lime was added as a flux, and acted to unite with itself the sand, clay and other impurities to form a slag or scoria. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In a tree we can distinguish this or that branch, though at the actual fork the two unite and blend together. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- His problem was to unite the two when he wanted to put out a fire. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Two atoms of the element hydrogen unite with one atom of the element oxygen to make one molecule of water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- His first United States patent, No. 174,465, was granted March 7, 1876, and his second January 30, 1877, No. 186,787. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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.
- France is the traditional ally and friend of the United States. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Baldwin, a construction engineer, living in the United States, began to work on calculating machines in 1870. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1793 the total export of cotton from the United States was less than ten thousand bales, but by 1860 the export was four million bales. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It was as if they met in exile, and united their solitary forces against all the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- England's course towards the United States during the rebellion exasperated the people of this country very much against the mother country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If magenta is replaced by other artificial dyes,--for example, scarlets,--the result is similar; in general, wool material absorbs dye readily, and uniting with it is permanently dyed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Washing soda combines with calcium and magnesium and prevents them from uniting with soap. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- His right was protected by the James River, his left by the Appomattox, and his rear by their junction--the two streams uniting near by. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Uniting, and leaguing, and engaging to stand by one another. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- For, then he saw that through his desperate attempt to separate those two for ever, he had been made the means of uniting them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I may feel--nay, know--that in uniting herself to Mr Rokesmith she has united herself to one who is, in spite of shallow sophistry, a Mendicant. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This is because cotton fibers possess no chemical substance capable of uniting with the coloring matter to form a compound insoluble in water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The phosphorus in burning unites with the oxygen of the air and hence the gas that remains in the jar is chiefly nitrogen. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This heating or vulcanizing process fixes the elasticity of the rubber, increases its strength enormously and unites the parts in such a way as to make the shoe practically one piece. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Wood and coal, and in fact all animal and vegetable matter, contain carbon, and when these substances burn or decay, the carbon in them unites with oxygen and forms carbon dioxide. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We have seen that oxygen unites with nitric oxide to form two compounds, and that into the one compound twice as much nitric oxide (by weight) enters as into the other. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The intensely hot steam is thus decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, and the oxygen unites with the carbon of the coal to form carbonic oxide gas. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When carbon unites chemically with oxygen, it is an exothermic reaction that gives off heat as correlated energy. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Her lord being cherubic, she was necessarily majestic, according to the principle which matrimonially unites contrasts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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