union
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.
Inflected forms:
form: unions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more union
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most union
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A trade union; a workers' union.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The act or state of marriage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
euphemistic
uncountable
gloss: A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: A large, high-quality pearl.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: 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 […]
And in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.
gloss: An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: To combine sets using the union operation.
pos: verb
gloss: Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
pos: adj
examples: Actors have to be union to get work here.
gloss: federal.
pos: adj
tags: India
examples: The union government of India
Related words: reunification
reunion
unify
unity
Derived words: anti-union
art union
axiom of union
banjo union
Barabkunda 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
North American 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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: му́фа
roman: múfa
lang: Bulgarian
word: ни́пел
roman: nípel
lang: Finnish
word: liitos
lang: French
word: connexion
lang: Greek
word: αρμός
roman: armós
lang: Greek
word: άρθρωση
roman: árthrosi
lang: Greek
word: ένωση
roman: énosi
lang: Greek
word: σύνδεσμος
roman: sýndesmos
lang: Hindi
word: संयुक्त
roman: sãyukt
lang: Icelandic
word: tengi
lang: Indonesian
word: kesatuan
lang: Japanese
word: ユニオン継ぎ手
roman: yunion tsugite
lang: Russian
word: му́фта
roman: múfta