union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.njən/
ipa: /ˈjuː.ni.ən/
rhymes: -uːnjən
Forms: form: unions
Etymology: From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.
Senses: synonyms: junction
coalition
combination
antonyms: nonunion
disunion
glosses: The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
antonyms: nonunion
disunion
glosses: The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
glosses: Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
examples: text: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A trade union; a workers' union.
glosses: An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
glosses: A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
glosses: The act or state of marriage.
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
examples: text: Unions are useful in those cases where you need to keep track of a value that can be represented as different data types during the lifetime of the program.
ref: 2008, Kris Bell, Lars Ivar Igesund, Sean Kelly, Learn to Tango with D, page 58:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
examples: text: Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, and[…]an union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:
text: And in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: A large, high-quality pearl.
glosses: An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
Derived terms: anti-union
art union
axiom of union
banjo union
civil union
Clam Union
company union
credit union
customs union
de facto union
discriminated union
disjoint union
disjoint union topology
enterprise union
European Union
fruit of the union
Great Union Day
hypostatic union
Kalmar Union
labor union
labour union
Mount Union
non-union
Northern Union football
personal union
pipe union
rugby union
scab union
sexual union
single union agreement
Soviet Union
State of the Union
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
students' union
student union
trades union
trade union
union bug
union card
union catalog
union catalogue
union cemetery
union church
union cloth
Union County
Union Day
union high school
unionise
unionize
union is strength
Union Jack
union job
union makes strength
union man
Union Mills
union pipes
union shop
Union Springs
union station
union suit
union tee
union territory
union wage premium
yellow union
Related terms: reunification
reunion
unify
unity