 35 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Union
adjective
1: being of or having to do with the northern United States and
those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union
soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
[syn: {Federal}]
2: of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations";
"a union-shop clause in the contract" [ant: {nonunion}]
noun
1: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the
employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a
job" [syn: {labor union}, {trade union}, {trades union},
{brotherhood}]
2: 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" [syn: {North}]
3: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the
mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: {coupling},
{mating}, {pairing}, {conjugation}, {sexual union}]
4: the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is
strength in union" [syn: {unification}] [ant: {separation}]
5: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for
life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God
bless this union" [syn: {marriage}, {matrimony}, {spousal
relationship}, {wedlock}]
6: healing process involving the growing together of the edges
of a wound or the growing together of broken bones [syn: {conglutination}]
7: a political unit formed from previously independent people
or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
8: 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" [syn:
{sum}, {join}]
9: the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning
produced an unusual union of the metals"
10: a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two
or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner
corner)
11: 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" [syn: {unification}, {uniting},
{conjugation}, {jointure}] [ant: {disunion}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Union \Un"ion\ (?; 277), noun [F., from L. unio oneness, union, a
single large pearl, a kind of onion, fr. unus one. See {One},
and cf. {Onion}, {Unit}.]
1. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one,
or the state of being united or joined; junction;
coalition; combination.
Note: Union differs from connection, as it implies that the
bodies are in contact, without an inter?ening body;
whereas things may be connected by the in???vention of
a third body, as by a cord or chain.
2. Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will,
affections, or the like; harmony; concord.
3. 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. --A. Hamilton.
4. A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as
cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
5. A large, fine pearl. [Obs.]
If they [pearls] be white, great, round, smooth, and
weighty . . . our dainties and delicates here at
Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say
''singular,'' and by themselves alone. --Holland.
In the cup an union shall he throw,
Richer than that which four successive kings
In Denmark's crown have worn. --Shak.
6. 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.
Note: The union of the United States ensign is a cluster of
white stars, denoting the union of the States, and,
properly, equal in number to that of the States,
displayed on a blue field; the fly being composed of
alternate stripes of red and white. The union of the
British ensign is the three crosses of St. George, St.
Andrew, and St. Patrick in combination, denoting the
union of England, Scotland and Ireland, displayed on a
blue field in the national banner used on shore, on a
red, white, or blue field in naval ensigns, and with a
white border or fly in the merchant service.
7. (Mach.) 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.
8. (Brewing) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which
fermentation is carried on.
{Hypostatic union} (Theol.) See under {Hypostatic}.
{Latin union}. See under {Latin}.
{Legislative Union} (Eng. Hist.), the union of Great Britain
and Ireland, which took place Jan. 1, 1801.
{Union}, or {Act of Union} (Eng. Hist.), the act by which
Scotland was united to England, or by which the two
kingdoms were incorporated into one, in 1707.
{Union by the first intention}, or {Union by the second
intention}. (Surg.) See {To heal by the first intention}, or
{To heal by the second intention}, under {Intention}.
{Union down} (Naut.), a signal of distress at sea made by
reversing the flag, or turning its union downward.
{Union jack}. (Naut.) See {Jack}, noun, 10.
{Union joint}. (Mech.)
(a) A joint formed by means of a union.
(b) A piece of pipe made in the form of the letter T.
Syn: Unity; junction; connection; concord; alliance;
coalition; combination; confederacy.
Usage: {Union}, {Unity}. Union is the act of bringing two or
more things together so as to make but one, or the
state of being united into one. Unity is a state of
simple oneness, either of essence, as the unity of
God, or of action, feeling, etc., as unity of design,
of affection, etc. Thus, we may speak of effecting a
union of interests which shall result in a unity of
labor and interest in securing a given object.
One kingdom, joy, and union without end.
--Milton.
[Man] is to . . . beget
Like of his like, his image multiplied.
In unity defective; which requires
Collateral love, and dearest amity. --Milton.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
356 Moby Thesaurus words for "union":
Anschluss, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, abutment, abuttal,
accompaniment, accord, accordance, addition, adjoiningness,
adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agape, agglomeration,
agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance,
allying, amalgamating, amalgamation, amity, ankle, anschluss,
apposition, approximation, appulse, articulation, assemblage,
assent, assimilation, associating, association, axis, band, bed,
blend, blending, bloc, body, bond, bond of matrimony,
bonds of harmony, boundary, bracketing, bridebed, brotherhood,
brotherly love, butt, cabal, cahoots, caritas, cartel,
cement of friendship, centralization, cervix, charity, chorus,
circle, clinch, closeness, closure, club, clustering, co-working,
coaction, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, cohabitation,
coherence, coincidence, collaboration, colleagueship, collectivity,
college, collegialism, collegiality, collusion, combination,
combine, combined effort, combining, combo, common market,
communication, communion, community, community of interests,
compatibility, composition, comradeship, concatenation, concert,
concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse,
concurrence, confederacy, confederating, confederation, confluence,
conformance, conformation, conformity, confraternity, congeniality,
congeries, conglomeration, congress, congruence, congruency,
congruity, conjoining, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, conjugation,
conjunction, connectedness, connecting link, connecting rod,
connection, consilience, consistency, consolidation, consonance,
consort, consortium, conspiracy, consumer cooperative,
conterminousness, contiguity, contrariety, convergence,
cooperation, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership,
copartnery, copulation, corps, correspondence, coterminousness,
council, coupling, coverture, credit union, customs union,
dealings, deduction, disjunction, dovetail, economic community,
ecumenism, elbow, embodiment, embrace, empathy, encompassment,
enosis, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, federalization,
federation, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship,
filiation, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization,
free trade area, freemasonry, frictionlessness, fusing, fusion,
gang, gathering, gliding joint, good vibes, good vibrations, graft,
group, grouping, guild, happy family, harmoniousness, harmony,
hinge, hinged joint, hip, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, homology,
hookup, husbandhood, identification, identity,
ill-assorted marriage, inclusion, incorporation, integration,
intercommunication, intercourse, interface, interlinking,
intermarriage, interracial marriage, intersection, intimacy, join,
joinder, joining, joint, jointure, junction, juncture, junta,
juxtaposition, kinship, knee, knotting, knuckle, league, liaison,
like-mindedness, link, linkage, linking, love, machine, marriage,
marriage bed, marriage sacrament, marrying, match,
matrimonial union, matrimony, meeting, meld, melding, mergence,
merger, merging, mesalliance, misalliance, miscegenation, miter,
mixed marriage, mixing, mixture, mob, mortise, mutual attraction,
mutuality, nearness, neck, nuptial bond, oneness, order,
organization, overlap, package, package deal, pairing, parallelism,
parasitism, partnership, party, peace, perigee, perihelion, pivot,
pivot joint, political machine, propinquity, proximity, rabbet,
rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, relatedness, relation,
relations, relationship, ring, sacrament of matrimony,
saprophytism, scarf, seam, self-consistency, sharing, shoulder,
similarity, simultaneity, society, sodality, solidarity,
solidification, sorority, splice, spousehood, stitch, suture,
symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, symphysis, sync,
synchronism, syncretism, syndicate, syndication, syneresis,
synergy, synthesis, synthesizing, syzygy, tally, team, team spirit,
tie, tie rod, tie-in, tie-up, timing, togetherness, toggle,
toggle joint, trust, unanimity, understanding, unification,
uniformity, unison, unisonance, united action, uniting, unity,
wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding, wedding knot,
wedlock, weld, wifehood, wrist, yoking
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
union
1. An operation on two {sets} which returns the
set of all elements that are a member of either or both of the
argument sets; normally written as an infix upper-case U
symbol. The operator generalises to zero or more sets by
taking the union of the current partial result (initially the
empty set) with the next argument set, in any order.
For example, (a, b, c) U (c, d, e) = (a, b, c, d, e)
2. A {type} whose values may be of one of a
number of other types, thet current type depending on
conditions that are only known at {run-time}. A {variable} of
union type must be allocated sufficient storage space to hold
the largest component type. Some unions include extra
information to say which type of value the union currently has
(a "tagged union"), others rely on the program to keep track
of this independently.
A union contrasts with a {structure} or {record} which stores
values of all component types at once.
3. An {SQL} {operator} that concatenates two result
sets, that must have the same number and types of {columns}.
The operator may be followed by the word "ALL" to indicate
that results that appear in both sets should appear twice in
the output.
(2002-02-26)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Union, AL (town, FIPS 77616)
Location: 32.99343 N, 87.90550 W
Population (1990): 321 (120 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Union, IA (city, FIPS 79545)
Location: 42.24294 N, 93.06263 W
Population (1990): 448 (223 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50258
Union, IL (village, FIPS 76706)
Location: 42.23428 N, 88.54351 W
Population (1990): 542 (199 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 60180
Union, KY (city, FIPS 78384)
Location: 38.95291 N, 84.66917 W
Population (1990): 1001 (314 housing units)
Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 41091
Union, ME
Zip code(s): 04862
Union, MI
Zip code(s): 49130
Union, MO (city, FIPS 74626)
Location: 38.44826 N, 91.01262 W
Population (1990): 5909 (2306 housing units)
Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 63084
Union, MS (town, FIPS 75360)
Location: 32.57146 N, 89.11631 W
Population (1990): 1875 (829 housing units)
Area: 8.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 39365
Union, NE (village, FIPS 49635)
Location: 40.81468 N, 95.92073 W
Population (1990): 299 (125 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 68455
Union, NH
Zip code(s): 03887
Union, NJ (CDP, FIPS 74510)
Location: 40.69530 N, 74.26974 W
Population (1990): 50024 (19334 housing units)
Area: 23.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 07083
Union, OH (city, FIPS 78470)
Location: 39.90270 N, 84.30992 W
Population (1990): 5501 (1826 housing units)
Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 45322
Union, OR (city, FIPS 75850)
Location: 45.20901 N, 117.86713 W
Population (1990): 1847 (802 housing units)
Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97883
Union, SC (city, FIPS 73105)
Location: 34.72280 N, 81.62381 W
Population (1990): 9836 (4158 housing units)
Area: 19.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 29379
Union, UT (CDP, FIPS 78110)
Location: 40.61910 N, 111.87257 W
Population (1990): 13684 (5399 housing units)
Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Union, WA
Zip code(s): 98592
Union, WV (town, FIPS 81940)
Location: 37.59063 N, 80.54319 W
Population (1990): 566 (296 housing units)
Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 24983
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Union, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 227
Housing Units (2000): 103
Land area (2000): 0.820095 sq. miles (2.124036 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.820095 sq. miles (2.124036 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77616
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 32.994164 N, 87.905313 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Union, AL
Union
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Union, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 7757
Housing Units (2000): 3133
Land area (2000): 8.080852 sq. miles (20.929310 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.080852 sq. miles (20.929310 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74626
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.446684 N, 91.006070 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63084
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Union, MO
Union
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Union, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 260
Housing Units (2000): 112
Land area (2000): 0.207538 sq. miles (0.537522 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.207538 sq. miles (0.537522 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49635
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.813763 N, 95.922336 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68455
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Union, NE
Union
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Union, NJ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Jersey
Population (2000): 54405
Housing Units (2000): 20001
Land area (2000): 9.115933 sq. miles (23.610157 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000996 sq. miles (0.002579 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.116929 sq. miles (23.612736 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74510
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.696951 N, 74.270439 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07083
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Union, NJ
Union
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Union, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 5574
Housing Units (2000): 2167
Land area (2000): 4.281239 sq. miles (11.088358 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001131 sq. miles (0.002929 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.282370 sq. miles (11.091287 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78470
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.900154 N, 84.313494 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45322
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Union, OH
Union
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Union, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 1926
Housing Units (2000): 821
Land area (2000): 2.491656 sq. miles (6.453358 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.491656 sq. miles (6.453358 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75850
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.210034 N, 117.864818 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97883
Note: some ZIP |